1. People and the Planet
Unit 2
Edexcel B

2. Unit 2 The following topics will be covered and finished by Christmas:
Section A
Living Spaces
Consuming resources
Population dynamics
Making a Living
Section B
Changing Countryside
World of Work
This unit will be assessed through a 1 hour paper
It has 50 marks (32 marks in section A, 9 marks in section B and 9 marks in section C)
You do ALL Section A questions
Choose 1 question from Section B (Changing countryside)
Choose 1 question from section C (world of work)

3. Unit 2: People and the Planet
This topic is LIVING SPACES
What do you need to know?
How and why there are variations in quality of living spaces?
How far can growing demands for quality of living spaces become more sustainable?

4. What are the ingredients of good living spaces?
People vary in their perception of what makes a good living space (kq1)

5. Learning outcomes
MUST: Describe the elements that make places attractive or unattractive to different groups of people
SHOULD: To be able to explain why rural and urban areas appeal to some groups and not others
COULD: To explain in detail the factors that make a good living space and how these may vary from person to person

6. Starter Activity Suggest the issues connected to these places.
Using your copy annotate what people may like or dislike about them.
Show images of different residential areas, one high quality and the other a deprived areas. Students to brainstorm the issues connected to these places. Then link into differences between rural and urban areas and what people may like or dislike about them. Annotate the ideas onto suitable images of place.

7. What makes a good place to live?
Write down the top 3 things that you think makes somewhere a good place to live
Now ‘pair share’ these ideas until you have at least 10 things in your list
Look at the results of a survey done by ‘Mori’. Describe and suggest reasons for any patterns you can identify. Look at overall results and pick out some comparisons of rural and urban
After completing the task ask them what other demographic characteristics may affect how people prioritize the factors (ie, age, sex)

8. The Best Places to live in the UK
The Worst Places to live in the UK
Edinburgh
Winchester
Epsom & Ewell
Waverley
Mole Valley
Surrey Heath
South Cambridgeshire
Chelmsford
Horsham
Elmbridge
Middlesbrough
Kingston upon Hull
Newham
Nottingham
Merthyr Tydfil
North East Lincolnshire
Islington
Blaenau Gwent
Mansfield
Knowsley
These are the results of the Channel 4 TV programme Location, Location, Location from Explain that these were decided using data on the kind of characteristics identified earlier

9. Attachment to a place Place attachment can take 2 forms:
Functional – gives you the things you need (somewhere to live, food, water, work)
Emotional – involves feelings, moods and emotions that people attach to a place
Also considered are
SOCIAL – ECONOMIC – ENVIRONMENTAL factors
Discuss these key words and students write the definition of all 5 key words in their books

10. Comparing the best and worse
Read the information from the Channel 4 website about Middlesbrough and Edinburgh
Shade positives and negatives in different colours but also subcategorise into social/environmental/economic (you will need 6 colours!)

11. Where would you like to live?
Identify a location in the UK where you would
most like to live in ten year’s time
least like to live in ten year’s time.
Suggest reasons for your choices (describe & explain)

12. plenary Positives Old Young Negatives Old young
Get students to think about different groups living in the area and the pros and cons. Could be done as a discussion as a class or pairs etc..

13. homework
Research 1 of the top 10 best places to live and produce a poster/leaflet outlining the reasons why this area appeals and why it is a good living space