Where Will I Live? - Place
| School/Scheme | Understanding related to the concept of 'place' | Questions to develop understanding |
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Westholme School A Geographical Mystery |
Each place has a specific location. Each place has a unique combination of physical and human features. Each place is represented in a variety of different ways for a variety of different purposes. |
Where are these places? What are this places like? Why? How are these places represented? By whom? For what purpose? |
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Habergham High School What makes an area good or bad? |
Places are complex. There is variety within a small scale locality. People in the same place have a variety of views about that place. |
What are the different areas of Burnley? What makes people think that an area is good or bad? |
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Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar Where would you be willing to live? |
Places change over time. Places look different because they respond differently to national systems. |
How was this place different 10 years ago? Why? Why is there an over-supply of terraced housing? Why do house prices vary? |
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Ivy Bank Business and Technology College Urban Change |
Places will change in the future. Policy makers change the way that places look. Some people's views of places dominate the decisions made about that place. |
How might our place change? What are the plans and policies that might affect our place? Why do some views dominate decisions about how a place should be? |
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Colne Primet High School Environmental Quality |
The uniqueness of place is in part a consequence of different social political and environmental factors. |
What is our local environment like? Why? |
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Edge End High School What is all the fuss about? |
The people in a place can impact on national systems, the systems do not have the same influence on every place. |
What are some of the housing priorities in our place? How does that make our place different from others nearby? |
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Coleridge Community School and Parkside Community School Marshall's Airfield |
Our understanding of a place changes when we use information and data at different scales. | Why is Marshalls airfield to be developed? |
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Sawston Village College New housing developments |
Each place does not exist in isolation but is influenced by and influences others. | What are some of the national needs that mean that more houses are to be built in Cambridge? |
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St Bede’s Inter-Church Schools and Chesterton Community College Perceptions of places |
Place forms part of people's identity. | How is your place part of your identity? |
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Hills Road Sixth Form College Managing Urban Environments |
Places have become closer together in terms of the reduced time taken to cross space between them, however the fact of geographical distance still remains. | Why is the management of urban areas an increasing and global problem? |
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Comberton Village College and Saffron Walden High School Sustainable Cambridge? |
Places change because of decisions made at a distance to that place. | How does the national need for more houses affect Cambridge? |
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Chesterton Community College Housing Design and Housing Needs |
Places look different because of people’s priorities and previous experiences in that place. Places are connected and influenced by others. |
Why do many of our houses look the same? How might housing design change in the future? |
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