{"id":45,"date":"2009-09-29T09:30:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T15:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opengecko.com\/geography\/2009\/09\/29\/investigating-and-presenting-problems-in-the-brazilian-favelas\/"},"modified":"2009-09-29T10:02:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T16:02:24","slug":"investigating-and-presenting-problems-in-the-brazilian-favelas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/geography\/investigating-and-presenting-problems-in-the-brazilian-favelas\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigating and Presenting Problems in the Brazilian Favelas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/800pxFavelasportoalegre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"800px-Favelas-portoalegre\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"273\" alt=\"800px-Favelas-portoalegre\" src=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/800pxFavelasportoalegre_thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">[Photo source: <\/font><a title=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Favelas-portoalegre.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Favelas-portoalegre.jpg\"><font size=\"1\">http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Favelas-portoalegre.jpg<\/font><\/a><font size=\"1\"> Author: <\/font><a title=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Tetraktys\" href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Tetraktys\"><font size=\"1\">Tetraktys<\/font><\/a><font size=\"1\">]<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Your overall tasks are to:<\/p>\n<p>1)&#160; Find out about some of the problems experienced by people who arrive in the shanty towns in Brazil&#8217;s large cities<\/p>\n<p>2) Create a photo movie to show these problems experienced by people. <\/p>\n<p>These tasks should be completed over the course of one lesson and two home-works.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 1 \u2013 Researching some of the problems of life in the Favelas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I recommend you use the lesson for this part \u2013 the photo video can be tackled as homework once you&#8217;ve finished the research.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Make notes of the conditions found in the favelas, and the problems which people experience as a result of living there. Make notes under the following headings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Housing <\/li>\n<li>Employment and Income <\/li>\n<li>Health <\/li>\n<li>Education <\/li>\n<li>Population <\/li>\n<li>Facilities and Infrastructure (Electricity and Water supplies, etc.) <\/li>\n<li>Transport <\/li>\n<li>Other <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You will get your information from the following web sites. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/assets.sportrelief.com\/swf\/kids\/games\/favela-kid.swf\" target=\"_blank\"><font face=\"Verdana\">1) A flash game called &#8216;Favela Kid&#8217;<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Verdana\"> <font size=\"2\">(source: <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportrelief.com\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">www.sportrelief.com<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\">)<\/font>. As you play this game, be sure to add notes under the headings above \u2013 be observant \u2013 don&#8217;t just rely on the text \u2013 what do the graphics show?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sln.org.uk\/geography\/geoweb\/blowmedown\/shanty05.swf\" target=\"_blank\"><font face=\"Verdana\">2) A flash animation showing how Brazilian shanty towns change over time<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Verdana\"> <font size=\"2\">(source: <\/font><\/font><a title=\"http:\/\/www.sln.org.uk\/geography\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sln.org.uk\/geography\/\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">http:\/\/www.sln.org.uk\/geography\/<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Verdana\" color=\"#cc6600\" size=\"2\">)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/courses\/geog61\/chad\/thefavel.htm\" target=\"_blank\">3) Some more complex but informative text on favelas<\/a> (source: <\/font><a title=\"http:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/courses\/geog61\/chad\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/courses\/geog61\/chad\/\"><font face=\"Verdana\">http:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/courses\/geog61\/chad\/<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Verdana\" color=\"#cc6600\">)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" color=\"#cc6600\"><font color=\"#000000\">4) Your own research on favelas (start with a search engine such as Google). If you use any other websites, make sure you write them down in full.<\/font>&#160;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 2 \u2013 Presenting the problems of life in the Favelas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For this we are going to use an online photo animation website called <a href=\"http:\/\/animoto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">animoto<\/a>. This is an excellent resource for making photo based videos. <\/p>\n<p>By the time you read this, your teacher will hopefully have contacted you with an animoto email address which you can use to sign up with.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE \u2013 Further details will be set on homework database \u2013 no need to start the animoto activity within the lesson itself \u2013 focus on Part 1 only.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Photo source: http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Favelas-portoalegre.jpg Author: Tetraktys] Your overall tasks are to: 1)&#160; Find out about some of the problems experienced by people who arrive in the shanty towns in Brazil&#8217;s large cities 2) Create a photo movie to show these problems experienced by people. 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