Yr 5/6 Unit Going Global
We will be learning about how we are all connected through trade and how this impacts our everyday lives. We will look at products we consume and how they impact our local and global communities. We will need to be geographers to understand where different products are manufactured and by whom. As historians we will understand the connection with historical trade routes and globalisation. What is a global citizen? Find out what your role is as a global citizen and how your actions impact the world around you.
Ancient Africa: Trade Routes
The main items traded were gold and salt. The gold mines of West Africa provided great wealth to West African Empires such as Ghana and Mali. Other items that were commonly traded included ivory, kola nuts, cloth, slaves, metal goods, and beads. To learn more, click the image below.
Ancient China: The Silk Road
The Silk Road was important because it helped to generate trade and commerce between a number of different kingdoms and empires. This helped for ideas, culture, inventions, and unique products to spread across much of the settled world. To learn more, click the image below.
Into the Far Lands We Go: What does the Silk Road look like today?
Click on the interactive map below to find out.
Calculating Your Global Footprint (WWF)
Think You can handle Trade Markets? Try your hand as a trader in the IMF game below.
What is Globalization? (National Geographic)
Click on the link below to find out.
The Early Islamic World: Trade & Commerce
Trade and commerce played an important role in the early Islamic world. Large trade networks spanned much of the globe including faraway places like China, Africa, and Europe. Islamic leaders used taxes from wealthy merchants to build and maintain public works such as schools, hospitals, dams, and bridges. To learn more, click the image below.
How Shipping Containers Changed Our World: The History and Impact of Containerization
Riding the Hallyu Wave: How Korean Culture took over the world (The Guardian)
