4. Taiga Management Mongolia Edexcel B 8.6

This lesson may need either some printing or a computer room. I did it with students who all have iPads. The beginning is a Socrative quiz, you can make this as a multiple choice quiz, the quiz is here as are the answers in PDF format. Some contextual information about Mongolia and the Dukha people is given, then students have to read about management of the taiga forest. There are some GIS resources here using the UNESCO web page. The whole 'changing taiga' booklet is attached and some key pages highlighted - see notes on ppt. The students look at the booklet, UNESCO website, GIZ website who have been working in Mongolia and some of the pages about management in order to complete the star sheet of what, how, where, when who. I used flip learning and the students had seen a video about Mongolian taiga preservation before the class to set the scene using verso app. After the star worksheet they watch the video and place the management scheme factors in Environmental, Social, Economic Venn diagram. This is showing that even though the program was supposed to help the taiga, it doesn't only do that, it is also helping unemployed youth and women in to work and so has social and economic benefits too. Key points from the reading and video are summarised in the ppt. Lastly students have to imagine they are a park ranger and consider the env. soc. econ. factors. It could be a confusing lesson as there are a lot of resources to access, it might be nicer to just focus on Mongolia case study and do the RAMSAR, National Parks, Wilderness things in another single lesson so as to cover the spec but still have an interesting lesson on management.