Geography at key stage 3 (Year 8)
Unit 9: Shopping - past, present and future
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Section 1: The past - how and why does the provision of goods and services change? How are different groups affected (who wins and who loses) when there is change?
Children should learn:
- to ask geographical questions
- to suggest appropriate sequences of investigation
- to collect, record and present evidence
- to analyse and evaluate evidence and draw and justify conclusions
- to use fieldwork techniques
- how to classify goods and services
- to consider an issue from different points of view
- to identify how and why shopping patterns change with time
- about the geographical distribution of an economic activity (retail outlets)
- to consider how and why changes in the functions of settlements occur and how these changes affect groups of people in different ways
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Section 2: The present - what types of goods and services are found in different settlements today, in the local area/region? Why does the provision of goods and services vary between settlements?
Children should learn:
- to draw a map with symbols and a key
- how and why the provision of goods and services in settlements varies
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Section 3: The future - how will the internet affect shopping patterns?
Children should learn:
- to explore the concept of progress/development
- how the distribution of an economic activity may change in the future, and the effects of such changes
- to explore the ideas of environmental change and sustainable development in an urban environment
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