1. Learning Objective
Explain the positive and negative factors that encourage or discourage people from living in a place

2. Starter: What would you look for if you were choosing a place to live?

3. Negative and Positive Factors
What affects Population Distribution?
Negative and Positive Factors
Factors that discourage people from settling in an area are called Negative Factors.
Factors that encourage people to live in area are called Positive Factors.

4. Positive Factors and Negative Factors
Water supply
Food supply
How easy it is to defend
Supply of building material
Flat land
Pleasant climate
Access to firewood
Gentle slope
Industry and jobs
Good communications
Open grassland
Very cold
Steep slopes
Poor soils
Dense forests
Very hot
Very dry
Poor water supply
Few raw materials
Little industry
Not many jobs

5. Classroom Distribution
Look at the board.
Choose which area you are going to live in the classroom
If you want you can stand between two or three areas you want to live in.
Why do you want to live there?
Think about the different resources you will need.

6. Where will you live?
Ready?

7. Where will you live?
Flat land
Mountains
Why?

8. Where will you live?
Open grass land
Dense Forest
Why?

9. Where will you live?
Flat land
Building Materials
Why?

10. Where will you live?
Open grass land
Dense Forest
Flood plain
Why?

11. Stone Building Materials Open grassland
Where will you live?
Stone Building Materials
Open grassland
River
Hill Top
Dense Forest
Why?

12. Good soils Industry and jobs Pleasant climate Lowland Why?
Where will you live?
Good soils
Industry and jobs
Pleasant climate
Why?
Lowland

13. Where it is – general overview of the location, weather and map.
Dream Home Each group will be given an area. Your task is to research and design the typical type of house found there ready to present back to the class. Your presentation should include:
Where it is – general overview of the location, weather and map.
What resources do they use? – sticks, mud, ice?
Why do they use these resources? What is available and why? Poor/rich?
What is it like? – colour, shape, big, small? Include a picture.

14. Your Group is… Arctic Massai Mara Philippines Kazakhstan Germany
Australia
Extension; consider why the houses are built a certain shape or colour.