RENEWABLE ENERGIES

LANDFORMS

Landforms from maribeliglesias64

CURIOUS MAPS

 

Please have a look to this website. You will find some maps that will change the way that you see the world

Here we show some examples:

The World seen from the South

Population

POWER GENERATION

Watching this video you can have an idea about how electricity is produced.

A VISIT TO GUINNESS STOREHOUSE, DUBLIN

We are going to visit the Guinness Storehouse Museum in Dublin, Ireland:

Guinnes storehouse from Maribel Iglesias

NEVER USE TRANSLATORS!!

HERE YOU ARE GOING TO UNDERSTAND WHY:

WONDERFUL LONDON!!!

HOW THE STOCK MARKET WORKS

LINKS:

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

FINANTIAL TIMES, MARKETS

 

 

GLOBAL WARMING

MAN

MAN AND EARTH

GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD OR GMO

LET´S WATCH THIS VIDEO DONE BY GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL:

WHAT  GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS (GMO) ARE?




it's a serious issue but we can sing too:

Little GMO, you're not a friend of mine

Yeah I worry about you every time I dine

cause they won't put a label on the food I buy yi yi

I'm gonna spit it out, shout it out, close 'em down GMO

No more, no more GMO

Little GMO you're made by Monsanto

you look like the real thing, there's no way I can know

you stole the patent from God now, so even He can't grow woe woe

He wants to spit up, shout it out, close 'em down GMO

No more, no more GMO

Gonna tell my grocer to not buy GMO

tell my friends and neighbors everything they should know

where they grow you is a secret, youre everywhere I go woe woe

threaten living thing on earth,

Are there side effects? They're not too sure...

I'm gonna throw 'em out, shout it out, close 'em down GMO  

No more, no more GMO

THE STORY OF STUFF

LET'S WATCH A VIDEO:

(clik on the picture)

"The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world"

AND WE CAN PLAY TOO

CLIK HERE

( http://www.mysusthouse.org/game.html)

LET'S HAVE A DEBATE

NATIONAL OR PRIVATE HEALTH SERVICE:

SOME FIGURES:

TWO DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW:

Watch and read:

1- Michael Moore's film: Sicko, part I

2- What does Sarah Palin, the conservative politician, think about this topic?

Visit her facebook page:

and what's on newspapers?

The New York Times

El País

ENGLISH WEEK CAMP IN LLANES, ASTURIAS

WE LEARNT A LOT AND WE ENJOYED A LITTLE ( or it was the opposite?)

Week camp Asorey Llanes

NEXT STOP: LONDON

FINAL WORK. EUROPEAN UNION WEBQUEST

EUROPEAN UNION WEBQUEST

A WebQuest for 3rd ESO (Geography)

Designed by

Maribel Iglesias. IES Francisco Asorey. Cambados

e-mail address: mariasorey@gmail.com

Introduction

The European Union (EU) was formally established in 1993 (although the organizing body that constitutes the European Union had existed since 1950) and currently it has 27 countries involved. The EU seeks to establish European citizenship; ensure freedom, security, and justice; promote economic and social progress; and assert Europe 's role in the world.

Imagine that you live in an small european country called Cambadia, that are considering to join the EU. You work in an important consulting enterprise. Cambadia's President, Mr. Louis Aragund signed a contract with your enterprise to make an extense report about advantages and disadvantages of joining the EU for your country.

You will have to work in groups of three people: a historian, an economist and an environmentalist.

The Task

The class is the team that will have to do this big report.

You will have to work in groups of three people: a historian, an economist and an environmentalist. First of all you should know quite well what the EU is, How and when it was created ?, members, its economy and geography ... With this information you will have to write a report with the advantages and disadvantages of joining the EU, giving an answer to this question: Should your country join the EU? and justify it.

Process

1- First of all you should gather information about the EU: its geography, its history, the ecomomy, government structure...

For each role, the information you collect should include:

Economist

The european currency: the euro

Infrastructure, industry, and natural resources of the EU

Trade

Historian

Flag and anthem , meaning of these symbols

What happened before the EU

Members

the main treaties: Rome, Single European Act, Maastricht, Amsterdam, Niza and Lisbon.

Government structure

Environmentalist

Physical geography: relief and climate

Population

Environment

Different levels of development: east and west Europe

You may, of course, explore other topics of interest.

2-Design a PowerPoint presentation with maps, extracts from texts, photographs, videos, statistics... that summarize all the information that you have found.

3- Write a final report with the advantages and disadvantages of joining the EU. And give an answer to this question Should our country join the EU? justify it.

4- Each group will have to explain its final report to the other groups.

Resources Needed

The official site of The European Union

Council of the European Union

European Central Bank

Eurostat

Other websites:

The History of the European Union. Wikipedia

The European Union. Wikipedia

Deustche welle

Conclusion

Now you know more about the European Union, you are able to appreciate what it meant in Europe's history and the problems it has now , and maybe you can contribute towards solving them. The EU was a great idea, it kept war away from Europe for 50 years but it needs to be improved in many ways. And you, as European citizens of the 21st century, should participate in it.