Where Will I Live? - Chesterton Community College
The Potential of Differently Designed Houses to Meet our Housing Needs
| Name of Teacher |
| Andy English |
| Key Stage |
| Key Stage 3, Year 9 |
| Focus |
| This sequence of learning challenges students to think beyond their current experiences. It uses geographical thinking to expose the potential of differently designed houses to meet our housing needs. |
| Summary |
| Students are encouraged to think about how house designs and the work of architects can respond to aspirations for sustainable communities (link). The students are supported in making evidenced based judgements to support decision making. They are provided with a significant amount of place based information that illustrates alternative solutions to the challenge of house design. |
| Concepts and Big Ideas |
|
Place Space Scale Interdependence Sustainable Communities Reasoning with Maps Geographical Imaginations Geographical Communication |
| Places |
| South Cambridgeshire |
| Adapting this scheme for your own school |
| This scheme offers an innovative approach to issues concerning Where Will I Live? The sequence of learning could be used as inspiration for you to take a similar approach within your school, replacing the Cambridge examples with those appropriate to your own locality. |
| Files to download |
| Scheme of Work |
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