Saturday, March 21, 2009

GRADE 7 TOURISM AND THE ENVIRONMENT


Hello grade seven!
Ecotourism is: "Responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people." (TIES, 1990)


Click here for a link to the Video clip of New Zealand seen in class.
Here are some useful sites for you during this unit.
This is a very good eco tourism site .

In case you missed it - a prety exciting event took place on March 18th, an undersea volcanic eruption in the South Pacific - here is some live footage.
Also there has been some activity (Monday March 23rd) in Alaska, if interested click here.

Globalisation
One definition of globalisation.
Map of endangered languages.   National Geographic's coverage of endangered cultures.

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