1. Do now: The images provide clues about what we are learning today
Do now: The images provide clues about what we are learning today. Can you guess what it is?

2. How urban change has created environmental opportunities: Urban greening.
LO: To explain how the development of Southampton has led to the creation of environmental opportunities.

3. Urban Greening – an artist’s perspective
Future of urban greening in Melbourne, Australia

4. Use the pictures to create a definition of what you think urban greening is?
Write your definition on a whiteboard.

5. Urban greening:
public landscaping and urban forestry projects that create mutually beneficial relationships between city dwellers and their environments.

6. Activity 1: Give the 6-figure grid reference for the following green spaces in Southampton;
The Common
Queen’s Park

7. Mind map some ideas about what makes a good proposal.
The Southampton County Council is considering building houses on existing green spaces.
Using the story map and any other relevant resources, create a proposal to persuade the local council to keep the existing green spaces in Southampton.
Mind map some ideas about what makes a good proposal.
Work in group of 3.
Your proposal can take the form of a poster, PowerPoint, , news report, letter.
Story map link:

8. In groups of 2, compose some arguments against the proposal you have just written. Why should the local council be allowed to build on urban green spaces?