U4: Industries in Singapore

I know it was quite a rush during the last period trying to cover this heavy topic. Just to briefly summarise again:

• After gaining independence, Singapore was facing a high unemployment rate (too many people but too few jobs to go around).
• This led to people getting poor, not having enough food and lots of other social problems.
• The solution would be to create jobs by setting up industries and factories.
• However to attract investors to come and set up factories, Singapore needed to promote itself as a suitable place to them.
• First step would be to prepare the place (build roads, set up electrical and water systems etc)
• Next, it would be to try and advertise/promote the country globally so as to attract investors.
• The various industries include tourism (think about tourists), financial (think about banks) and Biomedical Science (think about scientists, researchers and engineers).
• All these help Singapore to "Earn Money" for everyone.

Social Studies Project 2

Just to clarify the requirements for this project:

You need to find an article (that is, words and words in passages, if possible, to have pictures) about a real natural disaster. From that article, you do a mind-map at the bottom of your workbook's page 9, similar to the one on page 8. Write down what are the impacts or how they affect humans and their activities.

It must be about a real natural disaster that has taken place in the past or present.

Print out the article and paste it on the top portion of page 9 in your workbook. If your article is from a magazine or newspapers, you can still follow the same procedures too.

Submission date is 29th Feb (Fri).

Social Studies H/w

6 Excellence!

Here are some links which maybe useful to you for the assignment (workbook pg 4-5).

www.sg
www.cnto.org
www.tourism.gov.ph
www.tourism.gov.my