This StoryMap has been created for Key Stage 3 Geography pupils, to help them explore China’s history, landscapes, development, and environmental challenges.
Throughout the resource, pupils will find activities to complete alongside links that extend learning and deepen their understanding of key ideas. The materials are designed to build geographical knowledge while promoting independence and encouraging pupils to consider China’s role in the modern world.
This resource follows the Key Stage 3 Geography Curriculum, specifically:
- extend their locational knowledge and deepen their spatial awareness of the world’s countries using maps of the world to focus on Asia (including China), focusing on its environmental regions, including polar and hot deserts, key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities;
- understand geographical similarities, differences and links between places through the study of human and physical geography of a region within Asia;
- study human geography relating to population and urbanisation, international development, economic activity, and the use of natural resources;
- understand how human and physical processes interact to influence and change landscapes, environments, and the climate, and how human activity relies on effective functioning of natural systems;
- build on their knowledge of globes, maps and atlases, and apply and develop this knowledge routinely in the classroom;
- use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to view, analyse and interpret places and data.