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Geography at key stage 3    (Year 7)

Unit 3: People everywhere

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About this unit

In this unit pupils study different aspects of population - growth, structure and distribution - in different contexts.

They use OS maps to identify different types of settlement sites, developing their skills of map reading and drawing. They investigate a local housing development issue and its impact on the community.

This unit is expected to take 8-11 hours.


This unit supports citizenship: 7

Sections in this unit

This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.
1. What is the world's total population? How and why is it changing? What will it be in 50 years' time?
2. Which parts of the world are densely and which sparsely populated and why?
3. What is a settlement? Where do we build our settlements and why?
4. Where should all the new houses go?
5. How is land used in a town or city? Where are the different land-use zones found and why? How has the pattern developed? How is the pattern changing? How are different groups of people affected?