Globalisation - The butterfly effect

Globalisation

Focusing on a mini unit for year 10 SOSE and looking at the impact of Globalisation and technology.

I came across this animation

What is Home Economics??

Here is a clip I put together outlining what Home Economic encompasses... it was made for year 11 Senior Home Ec - Semester 1/term 1.

Climate Change Copenhagen

This Oxfam produced resource allows students to understand the importance of governmental decisions of issues which will affect their futures.

It has teacher resources and guides to further understand what the Copenhagen climate change talks are all about

Against All Odds - UNHCR

This online game, produced by the United Nation's refugee support agency, the UNHCR provides secondary students with a dramatic experience of a young person fleeing oppression in their homeland, the difficulty of finding acceptance and starting a new life in a foreign society.
The web facts section provides information about human rights and international law, as well as individual refugees’ stories.
The teachers' section provides advice for teachers with awareness, comprehension, interactive and discussion exercises along with an extensive series of web links.

The Burning Season

This is an amazing documentary directed by Australian Cathy Henkel and narrated by our very own Hugh Jackman. It's focus is about deforestation in Indonesia and wiping out the orangutan population. It follows environmentalist Dorjee Sun while he takes on climate change and the devastation of carbon emissions.

Here is a website based around the burning season: Ten things you can do to change the world

and the official Burning Season website

GREAT RESOURCE for SOSE and Geography teachers

SSSI and Q150- linking spatial technology with Queensland history

The Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute along with the Q150 program have developed a free teaching resources that aim to involve students in the history of Qld....

Check it out, it could be a way of linking the Q150 initiative into your classrooms using technology!! the site has a specific tab for schools and includes a 3 part process but these can be used as since topics:

1. Changes over 150 years,
2. Icons of Qld, and
3. Future predictions.

The google map hasn't been updated with the 40 survey markers as yet, but I'm hoping they will have it completed before it's Q150+1

WWW.Where's that resource?: KFC lawsuit: crippling a young girl from salmonella

the denial from KFC.....

the shop in question only has a performance ranking of 41%... I wonder how often these outlets get reviewed?

It seems that there may be a disconnection between practices and policies which are made at the corporate level and what is practiced by the young employee's at the ground level.