Enquiry questions set out what you want to find out in your geographical investigation.

To analyse is to study something in close detail.

An interview means talking to people to gather information.

A survey is a way of collecting information by asking a set of questions.

Recording local views

Geography

Our changing place

Measuring settlement change

Evidence from fieldwork

Mapping changes

Measuring change in a day

This unit links to further work on the UK in 'The UK: Who are we?'. 'UK region: Why is the Lake District a National Park?' and particularly to fieldwork in 'Local area: What needs changing?' where pupils will return to the theme of local change and consider what changes they would like to see in the future and gather a range of perspectives on this before making recommendations. 

This unit directly builds on work in 'Settlements: Where do people live and why?' to examine change in your local area through a large scale investigation, using mapwork and other evidence, including fieldwork.

This unit develops pupils’ fieldwork skills through an investigation of change in the local area. Pupils observe, measure, map and record evidence of change, gather local views, and begin to consider how places evolve over time.

Local area: how is it changing?

a person's belief or thoughts about a subject

a way of collecting information by asking a set of questions.

__________ questions set out what you want to find out in your geographical investigation.

Which methods could we use to find out about recent changes in our local area?

The answers to which survey question types are easier to analyse?

Because they can be answered by all age groups.

Because they require less time to answer.

Because it is easier and quicker to spot patterns in the data.

Why are yes/no questions easier to analyse?

What can we use to measure changes in settlement size?

text or notes added onto a map or image to add more detail

when something has changed from how it was in the past

the official collection of data about a whole population

Order these settlement types according to their size, from largest to smallest.

Will all settlements grow equally in all directions?

Which of these are barriers to settlement growth?

Choose the correct order in which St Albans has grown.

Starter Quiz

What can we use to measure changes in settlement size?