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Year 6

Imports and exports

I can use import and export data to investigate global trade in commodities and manufactured goods.

New
New
Year 6

Imports and exports

I can use import and export data to investigate global trade in commodities and manufactured goods.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Global trade involves exporting goods from one country and importing them into other countries.
  2. Commodities are raw materials which can be bought and sold.
  3. Manufactured goods are things which have been made out of raw materials.
  4. Import and export data can be used to show the types and amounts of things different countries import and export.

Keywords

  • Imported - Goods and services that are imported are brought in from another country.

  • Exported - Goods and services that are exported are sold to another country.

  • Commodities - Commodities are raw materials that are grown or dug out of the ground.

  • Manufactured - Something that is manufactured is made by humans, not nature, usually in large quantities for selling.

  • Data - Data is a collection of information that can be analysed to help us answer a question.

Common misconception

the difference between exports and imports.

Exports are selling good and services to another country and imports are bringing good and services into a country from another one.

Use a world map to show to children that goods come across from all around the world.
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Lesson video

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6 Questions

Q1.
What is a good?
things that you can do
things that people can move around
Correct answer: things that are produced, they can be bought or sold
Q2.
What are services?
Correct answer: things that people do for others in exchange for money
physical objects that can be touched
things that can't be bought
Q3.
What is international trade?
Correct answer: selling goods and services to other countries of the world
selling goods and services to within a country
selling goods and services to within a city
Q4.
What is data?
Correct answer: information about things
numbers
graphs
measurments
Q5.
What is globalisation?
the global population going up
global temperatures increasing
Correct answer: the process of countries and people becoming more connected
Q6.
What does global mean?
Correct answer: across the world
across a country
across a city

6 Questions

Q1.
What is an export?
things that are made through the process of manufacturing (often in factories)
bringing good and services into a country from another one
Correct answer: selling goods and services to another country
Q2.
What is an import?
Correct answer: goods and services brought into a country from another one
goods and services sold to another country
goods and services sold within your own country
Q3.
What are commodities?
Correct answer: things that are grown or dug out of the ground
things that are made through the process of manufacturing (often in factories)
goods and services brought into a country from another one
Q4.
What are manufactured goods?
things that are grown or dug out of the ground
Correct answer: things that are made through the process of manufacturing (often in factories)
goods and services sold to another country
Q5.
What three things here are some of the main UK exports?
Correct answer: gold
bananas
Correct answer: machinery
Correct answer: medications
Q6.
What of the three things below are some of the UK's main imports?
Correct answer: fuel
Correct answer: clothing
Correct answer: cars
milk