4-5 – What Has Shaped the Characteristics of ‘Your Chosen Places’? (Regeneration, Edexcel, A level)

Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
What Has Shaped the Characteristics of ‘Your Chosen Places’?
Lessons 4-5 of 21.

• Knowledge quiz starter with mark scheme
• Discussion of specification – ‘Your Chosen Places’
• El Raval, Barcelona is the contrasting place used here (all case study content is provided), but teachers may prefer to choose a place in the UK.
• Students are guided to choose and then research a local place (prompts and websites are suggested for student research)
• Case studies cover: background of the place, economic activity and inequalities, functions and changes, regional, national, international and global influences, place representation, how the lives of students and others are affected by continuity and change, perception
• 8 mark exam question with half a model answer
• Plenary – 12 mark exam question with table to suggest content, essay skeleton and half a model answer.
• Slide linking content to the specification
• Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
  - Extra sheets: Double sided sheet to print in A3 for students (plus an extra version of the same sheet which has some of the case study notes on it)
  This lesson promotes personal enquiry and helps to develop students’ internet research skills and their interpretation of complex, data which will be needed for the independent investigation.