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Where Will I Live? - Comberton Village College
and Saffron Walden High School

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.

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