The BBC News followed a shipping container for a year to tell stories of globalisation and the world economy. Excellent opportunities for discussions around global trading, packaging, growth/decline of secondary industries, impact of the recession. Lots of video reports and maps for tracking the box.
There is even a cut-out model plan for making a container [...]
Posts Tagged ‘globalisation’
Nov 05 2009
The BBC box
Nov 05 2009
Johnnie Walker Whiskey
10-minute video of Robert Carlyle telling the history of Johnnie Walker whiskey. Very interesting and entertaining and lots of stuff in there for a class discussion or to introduce a topic eg branding, growth, enterpreneurship, product development, global trading. Because it is a case study on whiskey not appropriate for under-16 and even 16-18s you would probably [...]