Ed-Excel B: Urban World 9 - Bottom Up Development - Rio - GCSE

This is a full 1 hour GCSE lesson that investigates sustainable bottom up development through an urban case study of Rio De Janeiro. The lesson is part of a unit covering urban change and challenges on the new Ed-Excel B spec, though it could easily be adapted to other specifications or graded down for KS3.

Learning Outcome 1 - I understand the advantages and disadvantages of community and NGO-led bottom-up strategies for making Rio more sustainable.


This lesson covers the following themes:

- Key word definition
- Comparison of bottom up and top down development
- Worldwide examples of bottom up development
- In-depth investigation and evaluation of 5 different bottom up projects in Rio's favelas
- Higher level worksheet

Ease of use is the aim, so the lesson includes a compact presentation with instructions and guidance in the notes section below each slide, it also includes referenced, differentiated handouts with printing instructions and is of course, proof read.

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