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Geography at key stage 3    (Year 9)

Unit 18: The global fashion industry

QCA

Prior learning

It is helpful if pupils have:

  • studied two countries in different states of development
  • explored reasons why differences in development exist
  • used socio-economic indicators to compare places
  • undertaken a geographical enquiry using different source material
  • practised asking and answering geographical questions
  • developed skills of data presentation, cartography and interpretation of statistical data
  • played a trading game/completed a role-play simulation of real-life events

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?