Description: Love teaching geography, love my family.
The East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) is a project being developed in Uganda and Tanzania by French and Chinese TNCs, making it an excellent example of globalisation, resource management, a development project and more. Expanding fossil fuel production is controversial in the light of agreements at COP 27, but Uganda and Tanzania are both low income countries (according to the World Bank) and are keen to increase their gross national income. This role play puts students in the place of key players in t
To produce this role play I first read around the subject of EACOP, which enabled me to identify key players. I found articles and text from different websites related to each person/group of people, as you can see here.
I then condensed each view into a short introduction to be given to a group of students. I created 8 cards so that a class of 30-32 could work in groups of no larger than 4 students. Creating the cards from previously researched text meant that I was referring to real people/groups – I have no time for role plays which are purely made up by teachers and can be very misleading! Here are the final role play cards.