Urban Change in the UK: Introducing London

AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification Unit 2A: For this section we use London as our case study. In this lesson we introduce London, it’s location and site factors and its population.

We start with a simple quiz about London to test the pupils general knowledge of the capital.

We then look at the location of London and the pupils describe London’s location based on the C.L.O.C.K formula. But you could use any method. We then have a look at the history of London before the pupils undertake an ‘art attack’ activity where they are creating an annotated sketch map of the location of London and it’s settlement site factors. We then look at London’s population, looking at general facts, population structure and ethnicity.

We finish with a simple GCSE-style question plenary.

In a nutshell lesson includes:

Quiz on general knowledge of London.
Locating London activity
‘Art attack’ activity with guidance on producing an annotated sketch map
Video clips where appropriate
Population pyramid activity
Graph interpretation task on ethnicity in London
GCSE-style question with guidance on how to respond

Hope this saves you some valuable planning time.

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