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Tropicality
is an online geography activity about gathering a sense
of place of a mystery country.
This site
contains two activities. The first, sights
and sounds,
is an exercise for children to do on their own. Sights
and sounds looks at how finding out more about a country
can change your perceptions of it, and also deals with
preconceptions and prejudices about Africa. The exercise
is a progressive exploration through a collection of
photographs and sound clips.
To listen
to these clips, your computer may need to have special
audio software. You can download audio software for
free at realaudio.com
The second
activity, rôle
play,
is a classroom task which will need help from the teacher.
The exercise is to create short presentations about
Ghana from various perspectives. Children can choose
between the Ghanaian tourist board, an Oxfam Fundraising
group or a company marketing tradional crafts. The activity
includes a resources
page full of useful links, worksheets, and advice for
avoiding bias and assessing other groups' presentations.
Some
of the thinking behind the activity, as well as a series
of related classroom activities, are supplied in
a
sense of place,
a page for teachers giving some of the reasoning behind
the activity, curriculum hooks and more.
Tropicality
was written by Chris Durbin, Geography Inspector with
the Staffordshire Local Education Authority, and developed
into an online activity by Jeremy Dennis, from the On
the Line web team. The information, story and photos
were supplied by Oxfam GB.
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