Geography at key stage 3 (Year 9)
Unit 18: The global fashion industry
Section 3: How does world trade work? How does this affect the countries involved? How have trade patterns changed?
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Objectives |
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- to identify the geographical context of selected countries
- to consider other people's experiences and viewpoints/values
- to identify differences in levels of development
- to investigate the processes responsible for change and their impact on one industry
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Activities |
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Outcomes |
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- Introduce pupils to ideas about world trade in the form of a quiz. Focus on interdependence between LEDCs and MEDCs and the differences and changes (with time) in commodities traded, from raw materials to finished goods. (Ask pupils to focus on the cotton industry and investigate the impact of this change upon the economies of India and the UK.) Ask them to produce a fact sheet about world trade.
- Play a world trade game to develop ideas about global market instability, inequality between trading partners, the effects of natural disasters and war and issues relating to sustainability. Debrief the class and ask pupils to write up the experiences of each group involved in the game. Weaker writers could be asked to read a report as a radio/TV news item.
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- describe and explain how the pattern of interdependence between MEDCs and LEDCs is changing with time, and identify outcomes
- describe and explain how global markets work and how the process may have different effects upon different groups of people
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Points to note |
- Trading games are found in resource packs produced by development agencies. They can also be a useful source of data.
- ICT: use of a word processor and a writing frame provides opportunities for supporting writers of varying abilities. Video or audio could be used as a medium for presentations.
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This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of
activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by
moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.
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