Year 7 · Geography · beta

Population: where do people live?

This unit teaches pupils about the changing size and distribution of the world's population and how these can be affected by factors such as migration. Through examining a range of examples, pupils will develop an understanding of how countries react to different population challenges.

This is an attributed Oak National Academy lesson sequence, not a completed or academically approved DASKEREL course. Supporting transcripts may depend on video, images, practical equipment or teacher explanation. Follow each lesson’s supervision guidance. For religious education and RSHE, follow the school’s syllabus, policy and safeguarding procedures.

This Oak index uses an earlier export and lists 9 source lessons. DASKEREL has 12 original lessons for this unit, including 3 linked to source lessons absent from that export. Read the full DASKEREL unit.

Prior knowledge

  • The world is made up of many different countries.
  • Some places have more people living in them than others.
  • People move from one place to another for different reasons.
  • Birth rates and death rates affect how a population changes.
  • People need resources like food, water, and shelter to live.
  • Different jobs and opportunities attract people to certain areas.
  • Population can grow, shrink, or stay the same over time.
  • Maps and graphs can show where people live and how populations change.
  • Migration can happen within a country or between different countries.

Source curriculum references

  • Extend locational knowledge and deepen spatial awareness of the world’s countries using maps of the world.
  • Understand key processes of human geography relating to population and urbanisation.
  • Build on knowledge of globes, maps and atlases.
  • 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.

Oak source metadata. DASKEREL has not independently verified school-level coverage.

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