West Wyalong HS Lesson Plan

Unit/Lesson Title: MacDonaldisation

National Professional Standards for Teachers:
Domain: Know the content and how to teach it

Lesson duration: 50 minutes

Stage: 4 Year: 8
Class/Group:
Standard: 2.2 Organise content into an effective learning and teaching sequence.

Specific Teaching Target: Focus area/s: Knowledge Retained

Rationale:
The influence of TNCs on different countries. Do TNCs conform to culture or do they
change the culture.

Syllabus Outcome/s:
4.3: uses a range of written, oral and graphic forms to communicate geographical
information
4.5: demonstrates a sense of place about global environments
4.7: identifies and discusses geographical issues from a range of perspectives

Prior Knowledge: Globalization Technology, TNCs, Culture

Resources: Assessment Task; McDonalds Handout, Laptops,

Syllabus Indicator/s

Time

Content/Learning Experiences

Teaching
Strategies

Class Organisation

Assessment Techniques

Introduction (Engagement)
knowledge and understanding
about how cultural,
technological factors shape
communities in the global
community

10

25-30

15

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Welcome students, Reflect with students as to what happened last

lesson.
Advise students as to the plan and goals for todays lesson, but
also the remainder of the remainder of the week.

Direct Instruction

Sitting at Desk

Body:
Kate to cover the assessment task due March 10??

Direct Instruction

Distribute laptops to students and ask students to continue the

task for 25-30 minutes.
Is McDonalds trying to adapt to each culture OR Is McDonalds
adapting the countrys culture to McDonalds?
Create a table on the board answering
What are the 7 continents
Load Google Earth to assist students visualise.
Going through each continent, question students to the
information they discovered.

Individual Work

Is there a pattern across some continents?

Country Is the website in English?

Questioning

Sitting at Desk with

Laptops

Questioning and depth of

responses will assess their
knowledge as will
questions posed by
students.

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What are the main colours of the website?
What visual features of the website are the same? Logos, text?
What menu items are the same as Australia?
What menu items are different?
Revisit focus question
Is McDonalds trying to adapt to each culture OR Is McDonalds
adapting the countrys culture to McDonalds?
Conclusion(Presentation/Reflection)

Reflection /
Questioning

With McDonalds as the example, how has culture influenced those

countries?
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Quality Teaching/Quality Learning Framework

Intellectual Quality
Deep knowledge
Deep understanding
Problematic knowledge
Higher-order thinking
Metalanguage
Substantiative communication

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Quality Learning Environment

Explicit quality criteria
Engagement
High expectations
Social support
Students self-regulation
Student direction

Significance
Background knowledge
Cultural knowledge
Knowledge integration
Inclusivity
Connectedness
Narrative

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