I teach IGCSE Geography at an international school in Southeast Asia. Settlement hierarchy was one of my best-selling lessons, and it answers a question students feel from their own lives, so I rebuilt it from scratch with real Census 2021 populations, a Penang case study, and a fresh twist on what online shopping does to the hierarchy. If you bought the original, the update is free, just re-download.
A complete, ready-to-teach lesson answering one big question: why can you buy milk in the village but a wedding dress only in the city?
What’s in it:
- Full PowerPoint presentation, with answers included throughout
- Student workbook in three versions: full colour, printer-friendly black and white, and a ready-to-print PDF
- A 30-question Blooket quiz file for instant retrieval practice
- Bonus access to free lesson-support activities and daily games on the Geography Oasis website
What students learn:
- What a settlement hierarchy is and how to place settlements in order
- How population, spacing and services change up the hierarchy
- How to define and use range, threshold and sphere of influence
- The difference between low order and high order goods and services
- Why some services survive only in larger settlements
- How to apply the hierarchy to a real case study of Penang and George Town
Every figure has been checked and refreshed for 2026. Also suitable for AP Human Geography, World Geography, and any settlement, urbanisation or human geography unit at ages 11-16.
Format:
Delivered as fully editable PowerPoint (.pptx) and Word (.docx) files, plus PDF. Diagrams and visuals are not editable.
TEACHING CAMBRIDGE IGCSE GEOGRAPHY (0460)?
I have also rebuilt complete units for the 2027 syllabus - Population & Migration, Development, Climate Change and Plate Tectonics - each with lesson slides, student workbooks, full answer keys and bonus interactive website access, and each with its own free sample. Find them in my store.
This is one of a growing collection of fully rebuilt 2026 geography lessons; more are on the way in my shop.
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