Was China right to save the Giant Panda?

Aim:
This is a lesson that introduces the idea of sustainable development by looking at whether China was right or wrong to spend billions of dollars protecting the Giant Panda from extinction.

Learning Objectives:

1. To be able to fully explain what sustainable development means.
2. To research why the Giant Panda is endangered, and why China decided to save it from extinction.
3. To evaluate whether we think it was right or wrong for China to devote so much time, money and effort to saving the Giant Panda.

This resource includes:

• A 30-slide full colour .pdf to guide your students through the lesson
• Differentiated full colour workbooks for higher and lower ability students
• A 9-slide full colour information pack
• A Sustainable or Not-Sustainable card activity
• A plenary triangle worksheet

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