Preparation for A-Level Remote Learning Activity (OCR Power and Borders)

Why is the South China Sea so important to China?

This is a Power and Borders topic focus activity for Year 11 students preaparing for OCR A-Level. Students use the links provided on the sheet to write notes that answer the following questions:

1. Where is the South China Sea?
2. Why is the South China Sea of strategic importance to China?
3. Why is China building islands in the South China Sea?
4. Why do countries feel threatened by China’s militarisation of the South China Sea?
5. What do you think the future holds for the South China Sea?

Using their notes, pupils are then asked to write a one-page report that answers the key question: ‘Why is the South China Sea so important to China?’

** Please note the referenced extract to Tim Marshall’s ‘Prisoners of Geography’ is not included.**