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GCSE Geography – Unit 3 Sustainability and London’s Olympics and Paralympics Lesson 1.

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1 GCSE Geography – Unit 3 Sustainability and London’s Olympics and Paralympics Lesson 1

2 What does sustainable mean? Write ideas on your whiteboards and be prepared to share. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdLEdkiXm9c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdLEdkiXm9c

3 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

4 What is sustainability? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doeb6Q WJ5kA

5 What is sustainability? To live simply so that others can simply live

6 What is sustainability? “Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” Bruntland Commission (1987)

7 Books out... 1.Write the title: Unit 3 – Sustainability and London’s 2012 Olympics and Paralympics 2. Write your own definition of sustainability. Sustainability means...

8 What can have an impact on sustainability? Let’s 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.

9 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.

10 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?v=FdLEdkiXm9c

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