SWOT Analysis on Rivers

Activity Two-

SWOT Analysis on rivers

SWOT Methodology

The acronym SWOT stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Strengths and weaknesses can be regarded as internal factors whereas opportunities and threats stand for external factors. The SWOT analysis gives the possibility to develop a strategy which can help to tackle the weaknesses and threats. 

Internal factors–inside environment (in the basin)External factors–outside environment (factors exists inside the country/region) 

  

SWOT Matrix

->Physical features- landforms ->Quality of waters ->Uses of waters ->Ecological status  ->Quantity of water ->Waste water treatment ->Protected natural areas around ->Drainage network ->Hydroelectric power	->Economic development – Farming, Fishing and other industries, Dam building ->Social development – Recreation, Tourism, fishing etc, Drinking water crisis solutions –Reservoirs, etc ->Environmental – Forestry, Protection of natural and agricultural areas
->Drinking water crisis ->Floods ->High pressure due to urban development ->Erosional and depositional features increasing ->Urban development -> No monitoring ->Over exploitation ->Deterioration of water quality	->Tourist related problems ->Water contamination(Farming, industry, domestic etc) ->Garbage disposal, Sewerage and waste water management ->HEP spoiling landscape ->Effect on River ecosystems ->Eutrophication and Salinization

 Taking up the baton from the Grades-7 and 8, my Grade 9 students continued to study the same rivers - Ganges, Mississippi, Nile, Thames and Yangtze with a more in-depth analysis. 

The Activity Description

 

•The students were updated upon the features, geographical importance of a river, the power of River erosion and River deposition as a part of Geography curriculum.

•As an introductory activity, the students watched a movie - 'Landforms Rivers' and 'The Niagara tour'

•The Economics faculty, Ms Riyaz briefed the students with the opportunities that rivers can create to local people and the country at large like hydro power,  irrigation, drinking,etc.

•The students were also lectured by the Environmental Management Faculty, Mr Sudarshan on the environmental impacts of river pollution, water contamination and building dams on plant, wild life and humans

•They were then divided into teams based on 5 important rivers of the world i.e. Ganges, Mississippi, Nile, Thames and Yangtze

•The students were then given an orientation on the information they need to collect  under each quadrant of SWOT- strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats about their assigned river

•The students discussed in groups, researched the internet and browsed through books in the library

•The teams prepared the SWOT analysis of the river assigned to them using SWOT quadrant charts.

•The teams then presented their findings to the rest of the class quadrant wise.

•The students compared and analyzed each quadrant of every river individually and assessed their peers by completing the peer assessment forms.


You can find their SWOT details in the links below. (The blogs were created themselves)
River Ganges-, Josiah, Anjali and Rami
swotganges.blogspot.in

River Thames-, Amrutha Kruthika and Pramodini 
https:/riverthamesisa.blogspot.in

River Mississippi- Sneh Emmanuel and Shaun
http://swotmississippi.blogspot.in/2016/01/swot-analysis-on-river-mississippi.html
River Nile- Vinisha, Blessy and Swathi
http://nileswotanalysis.blogspot.in/

River Yangtze- Chandhana, Jahnavi and Nidheep
http://newbloggmail.blogspot.in/2015/12/swot-analysis-on-river-yangtze.html


Our partner school-BSKL completed a similar activity:
 http://prezi.com/zmcz1c5ee0x5/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Teachers giving an orientation on River Landforms and Impact of Rivers

Opportunities for rivers-Economics 


Rivers and Coasts-Geography Lecture Rivers and Coasts-Geography Lecture

Environmental Impacts on Rivers – Interactive activity





Let's meet the River Teams for the activity!

Here are the students watching a documentary on Rivers and coasts:

Based on the video the students collectively organised their information into notes. Snippets.

Our partner school-BSKL Documentaries shown to the students of the partner school as displayed on the link they sent:

After listening to an orientation the students started to build up the foundations of the SWOT project with research.

 Whilst researching they collected some really good material which is very informative

 In the library to source down material







Here are some more snippets on the research.







The students then started preparing the SWOT Charts

The students then started presenting the completed charts to the rest of the class in groups with effort and communicative skills.

The ISA SWOT Analysis project was a grand success!