Tuesday April 23 : the book of lists

Greetings, monumental geographers!

Today, while we are waiting for everyone in class to finish their "resource strategies" from last week, we will make good use of our time by making some lists

A) The first list you should already have: it's a list of resources which your country has quite a lot of

B) The second list you should also have: it's a list of the items manufactured from these resources.

C) Now for the third list: WHO is actually making these items? Who is gathering these resources? By this I mean, which companies in your nation are doing both of these -- making stuff, AND getting the stuff to manufacture that stuff. You know: bauxite to aluminum, gold ore to Krugerrands,  timber to tables and baseball bats, etc etc

The easiest way to start is by doing a search for "100 biggest companies in [name of your country goes here]"

You can also get a good idea by searching the companies listed on your nation's "stock exchange" ...for that, you will need to do a search for "stock exchange [name of your nation goes here]

When you a good listing, you will want to pick out the names of companies that you're pretty sure are native to your nation... not that it's always possible, but then again, even though Coca Cola has locations in South Africa and Mexico, they are still an American company 

D) From this list, start looking for websites for each of those companies you have found. Try to compile of list of at least 14 websites

E) On each of those websites, there will no doubt be a section about what they do... that's the gold mine; that's your silver tuna. List what they manufacture just beneath each website address

F) If for any reason you're "coming up empty" for a particular company, scrap it and try another

When you're finished, send me an email with your information in the main body and your names, your country's name and the phrase "book of lists" in the subject line

cheers,
Mr. L