1. Causes of growth: natural increase and migration
Kampala: Case study of a city in a LIC by Witts & Owen 2016 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

2. Fill in the gaps: Get thinking...
Across the world in LIC’s and HIC’s huge numbers of people are migrating from ………………. to ……………….. This is called ………………….. Urbanisation is affected by a number of factors such as ……………………………………….. These are called ……………………..and ………………………factors. The population of urban areas is also increasing because of …………………increase this is when ……………………… is lower than ……………….. The increase in urban populations has meant that cities have got bigger and bigger this has led to the emergence of …………….for example …………………..and ……….. Which are……………………………. global pattern of urban change. A major city we are using as a case study is ………………. This city is located in ……………………………………………….. and is important to the country because …………………………………………. and internationally because of……………………………………

3. Learning objectives
Understand the contribution of natural increase and migration to Kampala’s growth.
Explain two reasons for the fast rate of urban growth in Kampala.
Extract information from news articles.

4. Links to news articles for lesson:
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unemployment-is-out-of-control
entrepreneurial-country
kampala-report
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5. TASK: How many news article can you read in 20 minutes?
As a group of 3/4 sort the articles into information related to natural increase in Kampala and information related to rural to urban migration in Kampala.
Stick a post-it note on each article summarising its key points using at least 3 bullet points.
Stretch yourself: How reliable do you think these articles are? Can you identify any potential bias?

6. Exam Alert! Suggest and explain two reasons for the fast rate of urban growth in a named LIC. (6 mark)

7. How well did you do? (Detailed) 5-6 marks
AO3 Demonstrates thorough application of knowledge and understanding to the reasons for people rural to urban migration in LICs and/or NEEs.
AO3 Demonstrates reasoned evaluation of the extent to which named factors in LICs or NEEs affect rural to urban.
(Clear) 3-4 marks
AO1 Shows clear and accurate knowledge of places and processes in LIC’s.
AO2 Demonstrates sound understanding of rural to urban migration.
(Basic) 1–2 marks
AO1 Shows limited and partially accurate knowledge of places and processes involved in rural to urban migration.
AO2 Demonstrates some understanding of rural to urban migration

8. Reflection: Put these pictures together to make a short story that explains why urbanisation is happening in Kampala.