Explore Baku

Teacher notes

This lesson is suitable for KS2-KS3. There are differentiated questions for each age and stage - simply delete those you don't need, or feel free to use the suggestions as support or challenge for your students. We will meet 11-year-old Malahat, who dreams of becoming a professional dancer. We explore the city where she lives and read a rich media article about Baku. You'll explore 5 scenes from Malahat's home, her dance academy audition, and scenes from Baku city. Malahat's family live in shared accommodation in a building designed for oil workers. She talks about her dream of a new home for her family in the film. **National Curriculum objectives:** KS2 Geography - locate the world’s countries using maps, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities, - learn about different types of settlement and land use, economic activity, including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water. KS3 Geography - extend locational knowledge and deepen their spatial awareness of the world’s countries using maps of the world to focus on Asia and the Middle East, focusing on environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities (Baku, Azerbaijan), - understand geographical similarities, differences and links between places through the study of human and physical geography of a region within Asia, - understand, through the use of detailed place-based exemplars at a variety of scales, the key processes in human geography relating to: population and urbanisation; international development; economic activity in the primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary sectors; 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. KS2 English (reading comprehension) - to read texts structured in different ways and for a range of purposes, identifying main ideas and summarising these, - to retrieve and record information from non-fiction. KS3 English skills: Reading comprehension - Information retrieval, identifying main ideas and summarising these (non-fiction), - Reading for meaning. KS2 Citizenship - to reflect on spiritual, moral, social, and cultural issues, using imagination to understand other people's experiences, - to think about the lives of people living in other places and times, and people with different values and customs, - that differences and similarities between people arise from a number of factors, including cultural, ethnic, racial and religious diversity.