Scheme of work People and the environment: Contemporary urban environments This scheme of work for AS Geography specification (7036) suggests possible activities and resources that you might find useful in your teaching. 3.3 People and the environment 3.3.2 Contemporary urban environments Week 1 Specification content Subject specific skills Learning outcomes Suggested learning Resources development activities (including ref to differentiation and extension activities) Global patterns of Use of key subject Understand the terms To introduce the topic of Good general reference urbanisation 1945. specific and technical urbanisation and Contemporary urban books: Economic, social, terminology. urban growth. environments, you could Hall and Barrett, Urban technological, political show the students the first Online research. Describe and explain 2011 (Routledge) Geography, and demographic few minutes of Andrew the changing global Collect, analyse and Pacione M, Urban processes associated Marr’s Megacities which patterns of interpret a range of geography: a global with urbanisation and outlines some of the key urbanisation 1945. qualitative and perspective, 2009 urban growth. issues facing the 21st quantitative data from a Discuss the economic, The emergence of century. Alternatively, you range of primary and social, technological, See also Drake G and Lee C, megacities and could select a small section secondary sources this political and The Urban challenge, 2000 cities and their role in from Slumdog Millionaire or – demographic (Hodder) Kolkata with Sue Perkins
Scheme of work People and the environment: Contemporary urban environments This scheme of work for AS Geography specification (7036) suggests possible activities and resources that you might find useful in your teaching. 3.3 People and the environment 3.3.2 Contemporary urban environments Week 1 Specification content Subject specific skills development Learning outcomes Suggested learning activities (including ref to differentiation and extension activities) Resources Global patterns of urbanisation 1945. Economic, social, technological, political and demographic processes associated with urbanisation and urban growth. The emergence of megacities and cities and their role in Use of key subject specific and technical terminology. Online research. Collect, analyse and interpret a range of qualitative and quantitative data from a range of primary and secondary sources – this Understand the terms urbanisation and urban growth. Describe and explain the changing global patterns of urbanisation 1945. Discuss the economic, social, technological, political and demographic To introduce the topic of Contemporary urban environments, you could show the students the first few minutes of Andrew Marr’s Megacities which outlines some of the key issues facing the 21st century. Alternatively, you could select a small section from Slumdog Millionaire or Kolkata with Sue Perkins Good general reference books: Hall and Barrett, Urban Geography, 2011 (Routledge) Pacione M, Urban geography: a global perspective, 2009 See also Drake G and Lee C, The Urban challenge, 2000 (Hodder)