Science+Group+Specific+Goals+and+Tasks

1. Obtain the information for your specific country from the MDG online atlas.

2. In a pair you will be creating your own presentation using Google Docs presentation tool. One person needs to create the doc and invite the other person to share the document. N.b. one of you will have to have a gmail account.

3. There is basic information that you must have on your pages and there is extra

The most valuable start you will have is this Google Earth File or if you do not have Google Earth then open this map At the same time you can click down on the Global Awareness layer, and only tick the UN ones shown on the bottom left of this next screen grab

 ||  || Who will do this ||  Slide 1 ||  Introduction to the country – Maps, Flags etc. Photos ||  ||  Slide 2 ||  Statistical information about your country e.g. life expectancy, GNI (the information you collected). If you have any graphs on progress you could put them here. ||  ||  Slide 3 ||  Graphics from the MDG monitor page (go to from Google Earth or Google map document) to show progress. Explain and analyse it a bit.  http://www.mdgmonitor.org/factsheets.cfm ||  ||  Slide 4. ||  Research What is the United Nations doing in your country Could be Peace keeping, UNHCR, UNEP, UNESCO, UNDP you need to research and provide one example of a project that is being done there and try and relate it to one of the MDG’s.  N.b. This slide can be an image or points, however you must be able to speak cleary about why you have this. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Use of images || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> You can use images, graphs, data, maps to be able to support your analysis. Remember to put captions on photos or annotate graphs etc to show their relevance to your presentation. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Speech || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> The presentation needs to be between 1 and 3 minutes summing up your research. It should not just be reading from a slide and both partners should be involved. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ||