Wednesday 19 February 2014

Bradford research materials

WEB RESOURCES:
For general information about Bradford start with these websites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford
http://www.city-of-bradford.com/ethnic.html
These websites has information about the population of Bradford:
http://www.bradford.gov.uk/bmdc/government_politics_and_public_administration/2011_census
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/10253190.Bradford_s_population__now_mixing_more/
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/10101667.One_in_five_people_in_district_now_of_Pakistani_origin/
These websites explain about the Bradford riots:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-14044190
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jul/07/bradford-riots-race-relations
These websites show how communities can work together:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/20/bradford-synagogue-saved-muslims-jews
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/education/bradford-looks-to-heavens-for-community-stargazing-event-1-6357365

VIDEO RESOURCES:
This Is Where We Live 


Make Bradford British


The following three videos have been removed. However, you can read about what they said and covered through the BBC site and reviews such as this one from the Daily Telegraph.


Bradford City of Dreams Episode 1 BBC full documentary 2013


Bradford City of Dreams Episode 2 BBC Full Documentary 2013


Muslims helps Jewish community to save Bradford Synagogue 


Muslims helps Jewish community to save Bradford Synagogue [report by 'JewishNews']


Recollections of Jewish Bradford


Sunday 2 February 2014

Parliament and UK General Election Process in a Nutshell

You should bookmark this blog, and any other pages/sites you think will be helpful for your Citizenship exam.
1: Close the video list. Try the task until you get all 4 right

Click on this link, close the video pop-up menu once the page loads, and drag and drop the 4 answers, click reveal, and keep going until you go all 4 right. Use this information, and whatever you find by going on to the next step (just click reveal for each question), to write in your own defintion of the 2 main types of voting system on your worksheet.
Simply click each 'reveal'



Click here to go the page you see previewed right, with a 22min video setting out the process of the UK general election, and how our Parliament functions.


You can find many more resources on voting systems in this blog post, and several others in this blog!