Urban Change in the UK: The Importance of London

AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification Unit 2A: In this lesson we look at both the national and international importance of London.

We start with a retrieval practice grid which you can populate with your own questions relevant to topics you have covered.

We then do a quick photo interpretation activity on London to get the pupils thinking about why people would visit and what activities are going on in the city. The pupils then consider reasons why London is important. I usually create a spray diagram as a class. We then use some facts about London to organise them on a worksheet on national and international importance. We add any ideas from our spray diagram and then categorise them into social, economic and political.

We finish with a 6-mark question on the importance both nationally and internationally on a city in an HIC. the pupils have some guidance on how to answer the question if you wish to use it with them.

In a nutshell lesson includes:

Retrieval starter quiz
Photo interpretation activity
Importance of London nationally and internationally worksheet
GCSE-style question with guidance on how to respond

Hope this saves you some valuable planning time.

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