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Geography at key stage 3    (Year 9)

Unit 18: The global fashion industry

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Outcomes

Section 1: What is meant by the global fashion industry?
Children:
  • identify elements of the fashion industry and make connections between them
  • explain the viewpoints of others
  • give and justify their own opinions about fashion

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Section 2: How does the fashion industry connect people around the globe?
Children:
  • produce a map to show the spatial distribution of production and consumption of selected fashion brands
  • describe and explain the patterns on the map and how differences are related to levels of economic development
  • correctly identify, spell and define key vocabulary in glossaries

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Section 3: How does world trade work? How does this affect the countries involved? How have trade patterns changed?
Children:
  • 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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Section 4: What do we mean by 'globalisation'?
Children:
  • identify how the pattern of development is changing as a result of many factors, including globalisation
  • select a suitable graph to represent data and interpret it
  • use key terms to answer questions and accurately define globalisation
  • identify links between people, places and organisations

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Section 5: How does globalisation affect the fashion industry?
Children:
  • identify and research suitable questions for enquiry
  • identify the links in a production chain
  • identify the role of TNCs in the process of globalisation and analyse the effects
  • explain how trade affects quality of life in the table of winners and losers

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Section 6: How does globalisation affect people at a local level? What happens if the chain is broken?
Children:
  • use a DCR exercise to evaluate the impact of change upon different groups of people
  • produce a clear, formal report

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Section 7: Who are the winners and losers in the globalisation process? Is this fair?
Children:
  • identify how globalisation benefits some groups of people rather than others
  • use ICT to deliver an appropriate message to a specific audience, eg produce a 'flyer' to publicise the issue of fair trading

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Section 8: What might the future be like?
Children:
  • use extended vocabulary correctly
  • express their own opinion about the globalisation process and the future of world trade, supported by appropriate facts and evidence
  • write an impersonal overview of the state of globalisation, and possible future developments including sustainable development

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Sections in this unit

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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?