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This is a 'long' unit. It deals with a local traffic improvement scheme (a by-pass) and the impact it will have on local people and the environment. The unit has been designed so it can be adapted easily for any local issue. The issue could be concerned with other traffic improvement schemes, eg speed ramps, one-way streets, cycle lanes, pedestrian crossings, routes for handicapped people or a quite different issue, eg a proposal for quarrying, the effect of a hypermarket on existing shops, the effect of demolishing old houses to create a new site with different potential uses like a leisure centre or mosque, building a BMX track.
The key questions for any issue are likely to be:
- What is the issue? - identify it clearly from maps, photographs, local knowledge
- Where is the issue? - how far does it extend?
- Why is it an issue? - which groups are in favour of this scheme and which against?
- What are the views of the different groups involved?
- What do the class think about the issue?
- How might the issue develop in the future?
See how one school adapted this unit.
This unit supports citizenship: 10
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