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9-1 & 9-2 Development geography  2  Ghana

 

 

Geog123   book 3

                                               pages 8-9     2.1 A glimpse of Ghana

                                               pages 10-11   2.2 This is poverty ...

 

 

Map of Ghana

 

 

Ghana Home Page

 

 

Oxfam on the line

 

 

 

Ghana - an introduction  pages 8-9

  1. On blank copies of the map of Ghana from page 9 (printed double sheets) use the information available to create a map of climate zones and vegetation zones. Qn. 4 page 9 should be answered.

  2. On a presentation sheet, produce graphics to illustrate the statistics in qn. 5 page 9. then answer question 5.

 

some statistics

Ghana UK
 

  Area (thousands of sq km)

245 240

 

  Population (millions) 20 60

 

  % living in rural areas 62 10

 

 Life expectancy (years) 58 77

The density of population can be calculated by dividing the population by the area: e.g. Ghana is 20,000,000/245,000 = 81.6 people per sq km

 

The nature of poverty ... pages 10-11

  1. Read the passage about the daily life of Grace.

  2. page 11 qn. 2  .. after discussion , make a graph to compare our daily labours and those of Grace.

  1. Answer qn. 3. This can be done as a simply spider diagram, or using images from the internet to illustrate her poverty, rather than just words.

Development pages 12-13

 

homework: Poster on "What is development?" This could feature items from the general headings of:

human rights, economic well-being, health, peace, education, environment.

Journey with CARE to Ghana

 

care website

 

   

 

9-1/2  1 Development Geography

9-2 2 Ghana 

9-2 3 Development Survey 

9-2 4 Describing Development

9-2 5 Third World Debt

9-2 6 The Big Project

 

Year 9 work

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