Changing China KS3 FULL UNIT

Changing China FULL UNIT

This brand new unit of work is designed to help save you time and reduce the stress of designing new lessons for your students.  

"Changing China" showcases the major changes that have occurred in in the country, terms of both the population and the economy, and explores the reasons for this.  There are also lessons that encourage students to consider the political backdrop of the country and how it influences decisions that have been made.  There is also opportunity to consider the environmental issues as well as attempts to solve these. 

Inside you'll find:

• 10 classroom-ready lessons including teacher notes and answers to worksheets/activities
• 2 homework activities (that are quick to mark/check)
• End of unit assessment
• Bonus lesson ideal to set as cover for supply teachers

Here's an outline of the unit alongside part of the scheme of the work:

Each of the lessons include teacher guidance in the notes as well as answers to activities to enable non-specialists and those less familiar with the material to feel supported.  

The learning journey helps students to understand how the topic fits together and it can also be explicitly linked to in lessons, to show what they've covered and how that links forward.

The scheme of work includes the key questions of each lesson broken down into specific tasks to help the teacher deliver the learning effectively.  There is plenty of room to put your own spin on things but I'm hoping this will also aid those of new to the profession or teaching outside of your specialism.

I've listed the slides/resources that you may wish to photocopy so that you can arrive prepared for the lesson, with everything you need to hand.

And finally there is a link to the lessons in video format that you could share with students or go through yourself to get familiar with the content.

Each lesson is also provided on Google Slides, allowing you to make a copy and adapt as needed, or you can teach straight from it.

Each of the 10 lessons and the bonus lesson comes with an accompanying Google Slide presentation.  When you are inside the unit platform, you will be able to make a copy of the presentation which you can then either use as it is, or adapt to suit your teaching style.

Each of the slides is colour coded to reflect the style of activity:

Orange = Do now starter task

Purple = New learning

Yellow = Talk and share

Blue = Independent tasks

Pink = Apply and develop the learning

Green = Reflect on the learning

As well as the 10 lessons (and bonus!) you'll also find some homework tasks that are straight forward for you to mark and check.  However, they also help to consolidate learning and provide opportunities to widen student understanding.

One homework is on key terms and another uses the "Meanwhile, elsewhere..." approach to explore population in Germany. The other homework is a revision clock that helps students to prepare for an assessment.

The assessment includes multiple choice questions, map interpretation, description, explain and evaluation style questions.  It is also accompanied with an easy to follow mark scheme.

And finally, I have also added videos of me teaching each of the lessons so you can share a link to students who are absent or perhaps being home-educated to help ensure they don't fall behind.  Alternatively, you can use them as way to get more familiar with the lesson content, especially useful if you are a non-specialist.  Here's an example of the first lesson to give you a flavour:

If you have any questions about the unit, please send me an email: nicola@thegeographyteacherbox.com

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