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What strategies can be used to sustain our water supply?

What strategies can be used to sustain our water supply?. The Three Gorges Dam. By the end of the lesson:. All pupils will understand the cost and benefits of a the three Gorges Dam

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What strategies can be used to sustain our water supply?

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  1. What strategies can be used to sustain our water supply? The Three Gorges Dam

  2. By the end of the lesson: • All pupils will understand the cost and benefits of a the three Gorges Dam • All pupils will understand how small-scale intermediate technology works and evaluate how sustainable it is in a LEDC.

  3. The Chinese government regards the project as a historic engineering, social and economic success. What do you think?

  4. Watch the two videos http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/discovery-atlas-china-revealed-three-gorges-dam.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2JMVxnMqxU http://www.5min.com/Video/Impact-of-Building-the-Three-Gorges-Dam-in-China-502319360 What are your opinions of it so far?

  5. Read page What are the advantages and disadvantages of the dam? Read page 68 – 69 Read the sheets of information provided. Can you add anymore positives or negatives to the blanks?

  6. In your books: Complete a table of advantages and disadvantages to the ‘Three Gorges Dam’ Select what you believe are the four most negative aspects of the Dam and the 4 most positive.

  7. Review How sustainable do you think a Dam is socially, environmentally and economically?

  8. Possible articles to look at! • http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2012-01/09/content_14406115.htm • http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-01/06/content_14396743.htm • http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2011-10/31/content_14008428.htm

  9. http://www.ibiblio.org/chinesehistory/contents/07spe/specrep01.html#Ship%20lock%20of%20the%20Three%20Gorges%20Project%20works%20wellhttp://www.ibiblio.org/chinesehistory/contents/07spe/specrep01.html#Ship%20lock%20of%20the%20Three%20Gorges%20Project%20works%20well • http://www.pbs.org/itvs/greatwall/story.html

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