St Lucia Weblinks
To make the most of your St Lucia resources, all of the links to websites mentioned in both the photopack and the lesson planning book are available here, plus a few other other useful ones.
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Links
Cocoa/chocolate
Cadbury - includes some interesting information about the history of chocolate.
Hershey's
Coral
BBC News - a 2004 article about the threat to Caribbean coral with links to previous news items
Soufriere Marine Management Authority
Fair and ethical trading
The Co-operative Group (Co-op)
Fairtrade Foundation – lots of information about the banana trade, with particular reference to St Lucia
Fisheries
St Lucia Department of Forestry and Fisheries
Gros Islet – church and community
Gros Islet Roman Catholic Church (St Joseph the Worker)
Hurricanes, weather and climate
Caribbean Hurricane network
Hurricane tracking
St Lucian Meteorological Service
UK Meteorological Office
Journeys
ARC World Cruising
British Airways – find flights to the Caribbean
Caribbean Holidays – find a holiday in the Caribbean. Includes great interactive map, trip planner and pocket guide creator.
Hewanorra International Airport
Rodney Bay marina
Royal Caribbean – find a cruise holiday around the Caribbean
Virgin Atlantic – find more flights to the Caribbean!
Parrots (St Lucia)
Chester Zoo
Durrell Wildlife
St Lucia Mini Zoo - run by the St Lucia Ministry of Forestry and Fisheries
Photos
Past Gallery - another excellent selection of holiday photos including many of Rodney Bay
Rodney Bay
Past Gallery
Rodney Bay marina
Statistics on St Lucia
St Lucia Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture - an excellent selection of links to Business, Government, Organisation and Tourism websites
St Lucian Government Statistics - including information on population, education and agriculture
World Fact Book
Tourism
Heritage Tours to St Lucia
St Lucia Tourist Board – interactive maps, video footage and lots of information for planning a trip to the island
Visions - The official publication of the St Lucia Hotel & Tourism Association
West Indies online
World Travel Guide and Encyclopedia
Turtles (Leatherback and Green)
The Marine Conservation Society - lots of information about marine turtles. They also have an excellent Adopt-A-Turtle programme.
The Leatherback Trust - this organisation was established to save leatherback turtles from extinction and includes some good general knowledge about the turtles and information on the conservation projects.
Further ideas
The Net-Ferret website features a St Lucia venture full of problem solving activities for KS2. The mission is to help a fictional travel business give visitors a taste of the 'real' St Lucia. This website includes activities, lesson plans and links and should prove a fun addition to your St Lucia class work.
The QCA Innovating with Geography site contains bright ideas and more developed activities, which can be adapted for investigations of St Lucia at key stage 2.
Other ways of producing and labelling sketches can be found via the Worldwise pages.
Other ideas for developing activities can be found on the Global Dimension pages. The activities are aimed at key stage 3 students, but could be adapted for use at key stage 2.
Look Windwards is a brand new online resource for geography teachers, produced in conjunction with Windward Bananas and launched at the 2006 GA Conference. The cross-phase resource focuses on the Windward Isles as a global place and looks at many topics including Fairtrade, Banana growing and Tourism.
Programmes of study, etc
National Curriculum online
Schemes of work for key stage 2 from the DCSF - use the search facility to locate geography KS1&2
Details of other St Lucia resources produced by the Geographical Association can be found in the Primary Listing on the GeographyShop.
