Year 8 · Geography · beta

Cities: What are they like to live in?

This unit teaches pupils about how cities have grown and developed over time. Life in contrasting cities is explored through focussing on Manila and London.

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This Oak index uses an earlier export and lists 7 source lessons. DASKEREL has 12 original lessons for this unit, including 5 linked to source lessons absent from that export. Read the full DASKEREL unit.

Prior knowledge

  • The population of the world has risen rapidly to over eight billion.
  • China and India have grown in population and economic power over the last 50 years.
  • Countries are often categorised as low income, middle income or high income countries depending upon their wealth.
  • Countries where manufacturing of products has risen rapidly over the last 50 years are often referred to as Newly Industrialised Countries (NICs)
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can give us information about differences across the world.
  • Global warming is caused by the increase in greenhouse gas emissions released by humans.
  • Migration refers to the movement of people, this has occurred throughout history.

Source curriculum references

  • Extend locational knowledge and deepen spatial awareness of the world’s countries using maps of the world.
  • Extend locational knowledge of Africa, Russia, Asia (including China and India), and the Middle East, focusing on their environmental regions, including polar and hot deserts.
  • Understand key processes of physical geography relating to weather and climate, including the change in climate from the Ice Age to the present.
  • Understand key processes of human geography relating to population and urbanisation.
  • Understand key processes of human geography relating to international development.
  • Understand key processes of human geography relating to economic activity in the primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary sectors; and the use of natural resources.
  • Use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to view, analyse and interpret places and data.
  • Communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length.

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