Regional Inequalities and their Effects on Cambridgeshire

Name of Teachers

Nicola Gamble, Hannah Galama and Carol Pearson

Key Stage

Key Stage 3, Year 9

Focus

To develop an understanding of regional inequalities within the UK and the effects of these inequalities on Cambridgeshire with a focus on sustainability.

Summary

This sequence of learning engages the students with the following enquiry questions:

• Why is Cambridge growing?
• What makes a settlement sustainable?
• How is Cambourne sustainable?
• Where did it all go wrong (evaluating the characteristics of Cambourne which make it less sustainable)
• Is it possible to make developments sustainable?
• What are the problems with building North Stowe?
• How should North Stowe be developed?

Concepts and Big Ideas

• Place
• Space
• Scale
• Interdependence
• Sustainable Communities
• Reasoning with Maps
• Geographical Imaginations
• Geographical Communication

Places

South Cambridgeshire
Cambourne, Northstowe
East Lancashire

Adapting this scheme for you own school

This is a detailed scheme of work, that features local examples. It can be downloaded and used in its entirety as a place study, although you may prefer to used this well planned sequence of learning as a scaffold into which your own local examples can be placed. A further approach could be to develop activities that support comparisons between the locations featured here and your place.

Files to download

• Scheme of Work
• Resources zip file (10 Mb)

Evaluation

The teachers reflected on their experience of this unit in their Evaluation.