OCR A Level Geography: Exploring Oceans: Why Controls the Oceans?

Bring OCR A Level Geography to life with this engaging, ready-to-teach 60-minute lesson exploring oceans as contested spaces. Students investigate China’s growing naval power, blue-water navies, the South China Sea and EEZs, modern piracy, and migration across the Mediterranean, while developing higher-level geographical thinking through map analysis, data interpretation and chains of reasoning. The lesson moves beyond simple knowledge recall to encourage students to analyse connections between globalisation, resources, sovereignty and geopolitical power, before applying their understanding to an A-Level-style evaluative task. The resource includes a visually engaging PowerPoint, structured activities, challenge questions, exam practice and a supporting student worksheet with teacher guidance ideal for building AO1 knowledge and AO2 application, analysis and evaluation.