Urban

Urban Environments Flip Learning/Knowledge Organiser gives the students pre-lesson knowledge that they are expected to read before each lesson. Each lesson of knowledge is provided allowing the teacher to conduct different activities with students prior knowledge allowing less teaching but more embedding of their understanding. It also creates revision before, during & after the lesson to improve results.

Lesson 1: Examine urbanisation trends globally and across different regions, including reasons for growth (migration and internal growth).

Lesson 2: Contrast the economic activities, spatial growth and population of ‘megacities’ (cities with more than 10 million people) in the developed and developing world.

Lesson 3: Examine urban challenges in the developed world, including food, energy, transport and waste disposal demands that may lead to concentrated resource consumption.

Lesson 4: Examine urban challenges in the developing world, including slum housing, the informal economy and urban pollution, that lead to low quality of life.

Lesson 5: Investigate why eco-footprints vary from city to city and assess how one named
city in the developed world is lessening its eco-footprint by reducing energy
consumption and waste generation.

Lesson 6: Analyse the potential for more sustainable transport in a named city in the developed world.

Lesson 7: Consider the success of strategies to improve quality of life in cities in the
developing world: self-help schemes, the work of NGOs, urban planning (e.g.
Curitiba).

Lesson 8: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of attempts to develop
less-polluted cities, e.g. Masdar City, Mexico City.