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QCA

Geography at key stage 3    (Year 9)

Unit 18: The global fashion industry

QCA

Key aspects

Geographical enquiry and skills

Pupils will:

  • ask geographical questions
  • suggest investigation sequences
  • analyse evidence and draw conclusions
  • appreciate values and attitudes
  • communicate appropriately
  • use extended geographical vocabulary
  • use atlases/globes/maps
  • use secondary evidence
  • draw maps, plans and graphs
  • communicate, including using ICT

Knowledge and understanding of places

Pupils will:

  • describe scale contexts
  • explore interdependence and global citizenship

Knowledge and understanding of patterns and processes

Explored through:

  • economic activity
  • development

Knowledge and understanding of environmental change and sustainable development

Pupils will study:

  • sustainable development

Sections in this unit

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.
1. What is meant by the global fashion industry?
2. How does the fashion industry connect people around the globe?
3. How does world trade work? How does this affect the countries involved? How have trade patterns changed?
4. What do we mean by 'globalisation'?
5. How does globalisation affect the fashion industry?
6. How does globalisation affect people at a local level? What happens if the chain is broken?
7. Who are the winners and losers in the globalisation process? Is this fair?
8. What might the future be like?