Urban challenges revision lesson

This resource was created as a revision lesson for the topic ‘The challenges of an urban world’ from the old GCSE geography Edexcel B, but is relevant to many of the new specs. The scenarios were created based on four of the textbook case studies for this topic.

Students work in groups from a brief scenario to work out whether each of the 4 cities:

• Is in the developed or developing world
• To identify the problems the cities are facing
• To identify solutions to the problems.

The quality of answers from each group are assessed by the mayor of each city (other students). A score sheet is provided, but a cut down version could be created so the mayors are provided with less help for making their decisions.