The Changing Economic World - Strategies used to reduce the development gap - two lessons

This lesson plan is for two lessons.

Lesson Aim:
To successfully research a range of management strategies used to reduce the development gap.

Lesson Objectives:
1. To establish the limitations of the DTM
2. To establish the causes of uneven development
3. To make recommendations as to which indicator should
be improved to bring the biggest improvements in
development.

Resources included:
*PowerPoint presentation including hyperlinks
* Lesson plan
* A3 worksheet 'Strategies used to reduce the development gap'
* Home Team instruction sheet (laminate a class set of 8 for future use)
* Investigator instruction sheet (laminate a class set of 8 for future use)
* Overview of management strategies A4 worksheet

Lessons 7&8 of 21 from my new scheme of work on The Changing Economic World for the new AQA GCSE Geography. These lesson can also work as a stand alone lessons on strategies used to reduce the development gap.

This lesson requires students to make use of:
* The new AQA GCSE Hodder text book (Widdowson et al, 2016)
* Blank paper
* Old green ‘Understanding GCSE Geography for AQA specification A’ text books, to be used for additional research.
* Single-sided laminated copies of p.212-215 of the black Cambridge new GCSE text book- to be used as additional information for the investigator group.

Differentiated with tasks for higher and lower ability students.

Three progress checks have been incorporated into this lesson.