This lesson is designed to last for 50-60 minutes and is resourced with videos, extension questioning, deep thinking and uses graphs/images to aid learning.
This lesson follows the Oxford KS3 curriculum and looks at the definition of sustainable before looking at sustainable development examples from various countries around the world. Students will be able to identify sustainable factors and unsustainable factors and explain why they are so.
This lesson includes a starter, lesson objective, plenary and various student led activities.
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AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification Unit 2A: In this lesson we look at the increasing number of the global population living in urban areas.
We start with a quick quiz on global populations and a video to put global population increase into context for the pupils. We then look at how urbanisation varies around the world by plotting data on a graph. The pupils then describe the trends they have found.
We then look at a map of the urban populations around the world and the pupils can tackle several different questions depending on ability. We then discuss how these patterns might be explained. We then answer a GCSE-style question looking at the percentage of people living in urban areas on different continents using a bar chart. The pupils have guidance on how to answer the question if needed. We finish with a plenary quiz where the pupils have to find the countries with an urban population of over 50%.
In a nutshell lesson includes:
Quiz starter
Video clip
Graph plotting exercise with questions
Map interpretation task
GCSE-style question using graph with guidance
Plenary quiz.
Hope this saves you some valuable planning time.
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A scaffolded revision worksheet to consolidate students knowledge and understanding of urbanisation trends and megacities. Designed to be used with the AQA 8035 GCSE Geography course.
Geography: How can London Solve its Housing Crisis? KS3- Urbanisation - Population - Gentrification
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This unit is created in line with my personal passion for urban challenges and sustainability. This unit is framed around the varying challenges London faces in terms of housing, enabling learners to consider cause, effect and response. It is hoped the pupils will then be more equipped to understanding both London and the UK’s growing housing crisis.
This Unit is my favourite to deliver and been streamlined over the last two years. Happy to answer questions and any feedback welcome…
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SoW:
L1: How geographers manage the challenges of urban population?
L2: Why London becoming overpopulated?
L3: How does London respond to a housing crisis?
L4: (Assessment) How do we save London’s house crisis?
L4.5: Feedback
L5: Does London belong to Londoners any more?
L6: Summative Independent learning (Computers)
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I hope you find this SoW useful. If you have, I have created a series of resources, one for each unit of the Edexcel B Geography course, as well as many KS3 units, all to the same standard. You can check them out here…
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An observation lesson for urbanisation in the unit of Population. Students look at a made up scenario about the teacher (you can edit the name) and their decision about moving from a rural area to an urban area. This was taught at KS3 and students loved the idea of their teacher being in the lesson.
The following ideas are explored:
What is urbanisation?
Push factors from rural areas
Pull factors into urban areas
Lots of AFL, reviewing key terms, challenge and literacy.
Unit 3: Challenges of an Urban World.
L1 - 3.1 : Why is the world becoming increasingly urbanised?
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This is a GCSE Edexcel B unit, created to a high standard and has been delivered to my GCSE classes over the last two academic years.
This SoW work has been differentiated, with with both support and challenge throughout. Retrieval Practice and Duel Coding Theory are incorporated and as well as regular links to other parts of the syllabus, this is in line to my recent academic readings. Geographical and numeracy skill have been planned for.
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SoW:
L1: Why is the world becoming increasingly urbanised? (Free download)
L2: What and where are the world’s mega-cities?
L3: Urbanisation is a result of socio-economic processes and change
L4: Why Do Urban Areas Vary in their Socio-economic Nature?
L5: Cities change over time and this is reflected in changing land use
L6: How does Manchester’s land use vary?
L7: What is the site and situation of Mumbai?
L8: What is the urban structure of Mumbai?
L9: How and why has Mumbai’s population changed?
L10: What are the challenges within Mumbai?
L11: What are the opportunities within Mumbai?
L12: What are the inequalities within Mumbai?
L13: Exam Practice Mumbai.
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This lesson is looking at urbanisation within a UK city - Southampton. How did urbanisation affect the city.
This lesson is following the British Geography Curriculum. Within the 1 hour lesson (which can easily be adapted to be longer) caters for differing learning styles with a range of differing activities to target specific skills.
All students seemed to enjoy the lesson and the activities within. The lesson is created with differing students in mind to allow all students to succeed and develop their geographical and wider knowledge.
Lesson is easy to follow even for non-specialist teachers and can easily be adapted to increase challenge or to suit a nurture curriculum. All hand-outs are attached or within the PowerPoint.
Enjoy.
Urbanisation is a concept often misunderstood by Geography students. It refers to the increasing proportion of a nation’s population that is living in towns and cities, rather than the countryside. It is often as a result of large inequality between the standards of living in rural and urban areas in developing countries. This lesson explores the recent boom towards urbanisation and introduces the key terms associated with urban growth, as set out in the AQA spec A GCSE Geography curriculum. This lesson could easily be delivered at ks3 as it sets the foundation for GCSE content.
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Urbanisation
Content:
A description of the growth of the proportion of people living in urban areas since 1700.
A comparison of rates of urbanization between continents and countries at different levels of development.
Reasons for urbanization including natural increase and rural-to-urban migration.
Geographical skills including line graphs, pie charts, scatter graphs.
Each resource includes:
Worksheet with activities.
Teacher PowerPoint with diagrams and answer key provided directly onto the slides or in notes section of each slide.
Activate- a starter, an introduction, a stimulus.
Content- The Geographical knowledge- supported by short activities, images, graphs, diagrams.
Review- a plenary, recall activity, AFL, knowledge check.
Useful links- to video clips, websites etc.
Bonus Materials:
Knowledge Organiser
Interactive assessments (Self-marking Google Form, Keyword Quizlet, Multiple Choice Quizizz)
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What’s included:
A word document worksheet that includes activities that introduce key terminology, helps students to describe the growth of urban populations, describe and explain differences between continents and countries, and an explanation of reasons for this growth.
The word document is 8 pages. The word document is provided in colour and grayscale.
This worksheet is also provided as a PDF.
A PowerPoint version of diagrams and answers
The PowerPoint is 23 slides
Other settlement geography resources:
Settlement Patterns, Site and Function
Settlement Hierarchies and Services
Urban Land Use (Models)
Urban Problems and Solutions megapack
Urban Problems and Solutions in London
Congestion in London
Urban decline and regeneration in the East End of London
Decentralisation of retail (Out of Town shopping centre)
Urban Sprawl in Kuala Lumpur
Rapid Urban Growth and Slums in Mumbai
SETTLEMENT BUNDLE
Used with a Year 9 group as an activity, but could also be used as an assessment. Includes questions on text based and cartographic sources, as well as the creation of a graph.
Starter: 5 a day - recap of 5 topics in ks3 - these are rivers, energy, birth rates and death rates in this case.
Clear LO and success criteria
Key term match up task
Development definition - white board activity
Poor countries and rich countries video with work sheet (all at the end of the ppt)
Map task - mark on areas of HIC, EDC and LIC using an atlas
Factors affecting development task and video
Plenary: Describe a map showing distribution of income around the world
This is a Year 9 unit of work, lesson 1. The focus is what is urbanisation? The rest of the unit of work is on the TES website lesson by lesson - a series of 11 lessons including a SOW, an assessment, a homework project and a glossary.
13 part lesson series for the whole of the GCSE module The Challenges of an Urbanising World. This is the complete module - Urbanisation and Mumbai. Specifically designed for the new Edexcel Geography GCSE but also suitable for AQA and OCR. All lesson are for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required.
All lessons have a starter and lesson aim. Extension tasks and homework also included. All PowerPoints in the same signature style.
Lesson sequence:
1 - The urban world
2 - Megacities
3 - Urban process and change
4 - How urban economies differ
5 - The changing face of New York ICT
6 - Land use of cities
7 - Mumbai a growing megacity
8 - Mumbai’s changing population
9 - Quality of life in Mumbai
10 - Challenges facing Mumbai
11 - Sustainable Mumbai (1)
12 - Sustainable Mumbai (2)
13 - Trade Game
For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk
Small bundle containing information about world and megacities, impacts of rapid urbanisation in LICs and a case study about rapid urbanisation in Lagos, Nigeria.
6 part lesson series for the Edexcel GCSE module Challenges of an Urbanising World. This is part of the module to be taught alongside the Mumbai case study. Specifically designed for the new Edexcel Geography GCSE but also suitable for AQA and OCR. All lesson are for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required.
All lessons have a starter and lesson aim. Extension tasks and homework also included. All PowerPoints in the same signature style.
Lesson sequence:
1 - The urban world
2 - Megacities
3 - Urban process and change
4 - How urban economies differ
5 - The changing face of New York ICT
6 - Land use of cities
For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk
“How do cities evolve?” is a full unit of work suitable for key stage three geography. Inside you’ll find 9 easy to follow lessons, plus homework tasks, an end of unit assessment and marking criteria.
Each lesson begins with “Do Now” style tasks helping you to settle the class. New learning is followed by independent tasks, talk and share activities and opportunities for application and reflection.
The unit also includes guidance notes and a learning journey.
Lessons included:
What is a settlement?
Site and situation
Land use zones in cities
Can we build a city? (Lesson based on homework task)
Where should we build more houses?
Megacities - is bigger always better?
Living in megacities
Can cities be sustainable?
Re-designing urban areas (This lesson is based on the annual competition run by MEMF with further guidance notes found here: https://memf.careers/)
Homework tasks:
Create a model building for a city
Key terms to learn
Revision clock
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