I teach IGCSE Geography at an international school in Southeast Asia. The development gap, classifying countries into HIC, MIC, and LIC using current World Bank thresholds, is always the topic where students want to give textbook platitudes instead of real explanations, and finding classroom-ready materials that push them deeper used to cost me evenings of prep.
This resource is a complete, ready-to-teach lesson on the global development gap for Cambridge IGCSE Geography (0460, 2027 syllabus).
You get a 37-slide PowerPoint presentation, a Word document student workbook in three versions (full colour, grayscale, online-ready), a bonus interactive website on Geography Oasis, and a full answer key.
Students will learn:
- How the World Bank classifies countries by GNI per capita.
- How the global distribution of development has shifted between 1994 and 2018.
- The four factor categories behind the development gap: social, economic, political, environmental.
- How to use named country data (Malaysia, Niger, Zambia, Syria) to explain differences in development.
- How to compare two countries (Malaysia and Niger) using indicators and imagery.
- How to structure a 7-mark factors-affecting-development response.
Also suitable for AP Human Geography, World Geography, and any development or global issues unit at ages 14-16.
Delivered as fully editable PowerPoint (.pptx) and Word (.docx) files. Adapt the language, restructure activities, or drop in your own resources.
This is Module 2 of the Development unit. A bundle is available if you want the full unit and a saving across all five modules.
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