A lesson allowing students to work independently and to look at urban vs rural areas. A game of splat is included as well as re-cap opportunities for students. Guess the country flag powerpoint too!

Using data about Birmingham and the Peak District, create triangular graphs to represent employment structure in the UK for comparison. For use with Geography Edexcel B 2016

AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification Unit 2B: In this lesson we look at the changing rural landscapes of the UK. The lesson starts with a practice task. We then look at a cartoon which is showing rural-urban migration together with other geographical concepts. We then look at the reasons for people moving into rural areas. We then introduce two examples, one of rural population growth (South Cambridgeshire) and the other of rural population decline (Outer Hebrides). The pupils have a task worksheet to complete with various tasks for them to tackle. We finish with a 6-mark practice question with some guidance on how to respond. Hope this saves you some valuable planning time. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/markthegeographer

2 part lesson series for the WJEC Eduqas GCSE module Changing Places (Theme 1). This is the linking urban and rural areas section of the module. Specifically designed for the new WJEC Eduqas GCSE. All lesson are for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required. All lessons have a starter and lesson aim. Extension tasks and homework also included. All PowerPoints in the same signature style. Lesson sequence: 1 - Beyond the city 2 - Devon mystery

A lesson plan and worksheets at 2 levels of difficulty on the pros and cons of living in rural and urban areas. The lower ability worksheet involves sorting into a 2-column table; the higher ability worksheet involves sorting into a Carroll diagram. You can find more planning and resources on the Save Teachers Sundays website.

Secondary data collection for GCSE Geography investigation into the differences in quality of life between rural and urban areas. Compares key statistics from secondary data between the 2 areas.

An excellent revision resource to engage students with targeted revision questions, rather than note taking. Students have the choice of 24 tasks - a mixture of diagrams, activities and questions. Questions range from AO1 to AO4 complete with suggested exam tariffs. Used with WJEC/EDUQAS A but easily adaptable and usable with other courses that focus on rural areas, depopulation, counter-urbanisation and megacities.

This is a full 1 hour lesson that introduces Rural - Urban Migration to 11-14 year olds. The lesson is part of a unit on the Geography of China, though it could easily be adapted to other place based examples such as rural-urban migration in Brazil. It consists of 1 powerpoint and 3 worksheets, including homework. Learning Outcome 1 - 'I understand what peoples lives are like in rural China.' Learning Outcome 2 - 'I can explain what makes people move from the countryside to the city.' The lesson covers: - The concept of push pull factors - Push pull factors in China - City life in china, building into the next lesson in the sequence The lesson is designed to be visually appealing, with 'to the point' content that's easy to pick up and run with at short notice. The lesson includes a full presentation with instructions and guidance in the notes section below each slide, it also includes fully referenced handouts with printing instructions and is of course proof read. Happy teaching!

Complete research fieldwork enquiry for GCSE Edexcel B Geography. Asseses variation in quality of life within a rural and urban area. 15 page booklet!

GCSE Eduquas paper 1 Rural Urban links. Dominoes style game recapping key terminology. Could be used as a plenary, homework or cover work.

A PowerPoint and associated activities used during an “Our World” topic to introduce the concept of coastal, rural and urban.

To understand advantages and disadvantages of living in Urban and Rural areas Key terms: Rural to urban migration counter urbanisation

Designed as a homework task. These differentiated worksheets ask pupils to consider the advantages and disadvantages of rural-to-urban migration in China. This is a legacy resource, and so has been permanently discounted down to £1. I work very hard on making resources that are effective and engaging, so please leave me some kind feedback and visit my ‘Geogramblings’ website where more up-to-date stuff is available! China Rural to Urban Migration by Kit Rackley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification Unit 2A: In this lesson we look at the increasing number of the global population living in urban areas. We start with a quick quiz on global populations and a video to put global population increase into context for the pupils. We then look at how urbanisation varies around the world by plotting data on a graph. The pupils then describe the trends they have found. We then look at a map of the urban populations around the world and the pupils can tackle several different questions depending on ability. We then discuss how these patterns might be explained. We then answer a GCSE-style question looking at the percentage of people living in urban areas on different continents using a bar chart. The pupils have guidance on how to answer the question if needed. We finish with a plenary quiz where the pupils have to find the countries with an urban population of over 50%. In a nutshell lesson includes: Quiz starter Video clip Graph plotting exercise with questions Map interpretation task GCSE-style question using graph with guidance Plenary quiz. Hope this saves you some valuable planning time. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/markthegeographer

This lesson requires students to be part of a court case whether to urbanise the area of New York or not. Students read the breaking news and then answer a leveled task question. This is a fun and exciting lesson as well as educational, as students proceed to take sides and bring forth the opinion they believe in. Students writing skills are put to use as they choose to either be a prosecutor in this case and speak against the Mayor’s ideas or defend him. Once students have finished the task, some come out and present their ideas. Based on the persuasiveness of their speech, the students then vote on their ballots. The student with the most ballots win. Case closed. Note: All points included in this lesson are fictional and are for the sole purpose of the students revision on urban and rural areas.

AQA GCSE Geography lesson on Sustainable Urban Living using Freiburg as an example. Included in the lesson is: Video clips on Freiburg Information sheet on sustainable living in Freiburg A3 double sided task worksheet with a variety of actvities for differing abilities Practice GCSE Questions You may wish to use alongside the Oxford AQA GCSE Geography textbook, but all resources are included. Hope this helps. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/markthegeographer

Lesson covers the idea of urban sprawl and how people are moving both away from and back to rural areas Activities include fact finding tasks and statement coding to do with the impacts of population growth and decline All resources included within the ppt

Included in this lesson is a PowerPoint, explaining what a settlement is and the difference between urban ad rural ones. A worksheet is included too, where students identify that the word settlement is what all the images have in common. Students fill in urban and rural in the two remaining boxes and draw an image of an example of such a settlement. A bonus challenge is included too, where students look at the educational opportunities offered in both, based on their knowledge from the lesson.

Power Point on issues at the rural urban fringe.

This GCSE Geography lessons looks in-depth at the land use patterns around the edge of Manchester’s city, or the urban-rural fringe. This area is where the city meets the countryside and is desirable for a range of development opportunities including golf courses, airports and out of town shopping centres. This lesson looks at an OS map of Manchester for the starter task, although using BING maps online will substitute if you do not have hard copies. The lesson develops map skills and annotation skills. There is a brownfield site card sort activity also to help students understand the advantages and disadvantages of building on brown field sites. This lesson was written to compliment the AQA spec A GCSE curriculum, and briefly touches on the Burgess model, and how Manchester fits into this framework. It is part of other Manchester-based case study resources, also available from my shop. To go with the Urban Issues and Challenges topic SOW.

Easy to follow, high quality slides and resources for a Geography lesson making comparisons between urban and rural areas.