27 mins/ 14-18/ 2010
We visit several communities in Tamil Nadu to look at the causes of rural poverty. The resource covers the role of land ownership, subsistence farming, the caste system, climate, globalisation, lack of access to basic services, the plight of women. The programme shows the impacts of this poverty and what life is like in a poor rural area. It goes on to look at various ways this poverty can be alleviated, including: providing better access to education, health, improving farming methods, micro-credit schemes aimed at women and care of the orphan Elders left behind as the young migrate to the city.
Endorsed by Edexcel for use with their GCE Geography specification.
Mentioned in the OCR sample schemes of work and lesson plans/Teachers Handbook for OCR GCSE Geography A and B 2009 specifications.
Teachers GuidanceExam board specification links
The following links show how this programme matches different GCSE and AS/A2 specifications.
1GCSE specifications
AQA GCSE Geography A
Unit 2 The Development Gap
*The role of international aid donors in encouraging sustainable development.
* A case study of one development project.
Edexcel GCSE Geography B
Unit 2 Topic 6 Changing Countryside
*An overview of the issues facing a rural area in a developing country e.g. changing farm economy or landholdings; changes in the global or national economy, or to food production.
*Evaluate initiatives in a rural area in a developing country designed to address one or more of the issues above. Assess how this rural area could develop more sustainably in future.
Unit 2 Topic 7 Development dilemmas
*How economic development has led to economic differences within one developing country (e.g. urban-rural), and the social and economic effects of these.
*The characteristics of bottom-up development in developing countries. One bottom-up small-scale project in a rural area of a developing country. Judging whether this development project is sustainable or not.
OCR GCSE Geography A
Unit A673: Similarities and Differences
A contrast between two locations one in the UK and one outside. Rural Tamil Nadu would be an appropriate comparison, studying the following:
* Why is this place as it is?
* How has it been influenced by its links with other places (including the UK)?
* What impact does it make on other places?
* What are the similarities and differences with your place?
* What are the links with this place and the UK?
* What might the future hold for this chosen location?
OCR GCSE Geography B
Unit 3 Theme 4: Economic Development - What is meant by "development"?
* Measuring economic well-being and quality of life.
* Identifying and explaining why countries are at different stages of development.
* How development can be affected by aid.
* Some aid is more sustainable than others. A case study of an aid project in an LEDC.
WJEC GCSE Geography B
Unit 1 Theme 1: Challenges of living in a built environment
* How is quality of life different from standard of living?
* How does quality of life and standard of living vary in urban and rural areas?
Unit 2 Theme 3: Development
* What is meant by human development?
* What are the advantages and disadvantages of using economic indicators as measures of development?
* How and why are countries at different stages of human development identified?
* A study of two countries using various indicators and other information to compare their economic, social, and cultural wellbeing and the reasons for contrast that exist.
2A level specifications
Edexcel A level Geography
* A2 Unit 3 Superpower Geographies (India as an emerging superpower)
* A2 Unit 3 Bridging the Development Gap
OCR A level Geography
*AS Unit 2 Managing Rural Change
*A2 Option B3Development and inequalities
AQA A level Geography
*AS Unit 1 Food supply issues: subsistence food production systems
* A2 Unit 3Development and Globalisation
WJEC A level Geography
* A2 Unit 3 India
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Nice video thanks
workwithnature 10 months ago