GCSE Geography

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GCSE Geography Unit 3

• Sustainability and Londons Olympics and
  Paralympics
• Lesson 1

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What does sustainable mean? Write ideas on your
whiteboards and be prepared to share.
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vFdLEdkiXm9c
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What are we going to learn this lesson?

• Be able to define sustainability
• Understand what things have an impact of whether
  something is sustainable
• Start to find out what the London Olympic
  organisers are doing to make the 2012 Olympics
  and Paralympics sustainable

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What is sustainability?

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vDoeb6QWJ5kA

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What is sustainability?

• To live simply so that others can simply live

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What is sustainability?

• Meeting the needs of the present without
  compromising the ability of future generations to
  meet their own needs
• Bruntland Commission (1987)

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Books out...

• Write the title
• Unit 3 Sustainability and Londons 2012
  Olympics and Paralympics
• 2. Write your own definition of sustainability.
• Sustainability means...

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What can have an impact on sustainability?

• Lets check our ecological footprint!
• A volunteer please...
• http//www.steppingforward.org.uk/calc/
• On your mini whiteboards write down some things
  which we do which can impact on the environment.

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But what has all of this got to do with the
Olympics and Paralympics?

1. As you read the article underline Geography
   keywords and anything the London 2012 organisers
   are doing to make the games more sustainable.
2. Imagine you are a journalist writing about the
   preparations for the games. Write a blog which
   includes an explaination of what sustainability
   is and what the Olympic organisers are doing to
   make the games more sustainable.

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What have you learnt? Poetry in motion

• Write a five line poem about sustainability
• Line 1 is one word Sustainability
• Line 2 is two words and describes what the first
  line means
• Line 3 is three words and describes what the
  first line does
• Line 4 is four words and shows what the first
  line means to you
• Line 5 is one word and says the first line using
  another word.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vFdLEdkiXm9c