The Changing Economic World- Causes of economic change in the UK

Lesson Aim:
For students to investigate and become familiar with the main factors that have led to economic change in the UK.

Lesson Objectives:
1. To establish how industrial structure in the UK has changed over time
2. To examine the effects of globalisation on the UK
3. To explain how government policies have led to economic change in the UK

Resources included:
* PowerPoint presentation
* Lesson plan
* Five separate workstation task sheets - task instruction sheets can be laminated for future use

Lesson 16 of 21 from my new scheme of work on The Changing Economic World for the new AQA GCSE Geography. Can easily work as a stand alone lesson.

This lesson requires students to make use of:
* The new AQA GCSE Hodder text book (Widdowson et al, 2016)
* The old AQA GCSE Heinemann text book for Spec A (Bowen and Palmister, 2009) - needed for task 2 to provide information about the changing global distribution of manufacturing industry.

Differentiated for higher and lower ability students.

Three progress checks have been incorporated into this lesson.