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Year 3

Settlement features

I can name and recognise the key features of villages, towns and cities.

New
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Year 3

Settlement features

I can name and recognise the key features of villages, towns and cities.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Settlements are places where people live and work, and often have a distinct community identity.
  2. Settlements vary in size from small hamlets, to villages, towns, cities and megacities.
  3. Larger settlements tend to have a wider range of buildings and land uses, and more facilities and services.
  4. Photos, including aerial photos, show the main features of villages, towns and cities.

Keywords

  • Settlements - Settlements are places where groups of people live and work.

  • Services - A service is a system that supplies a public need, for example waste collection.

  • Facilities - A facility is a building, piece of equipment or place that is used for an activity or purpose.

  • Population - The population is the total number of people living in a particular area.

Common misconception

Cities are only places where people work.

Remind students that cities are places that people live and work as cities include residential areas.

It is important to emphasise that these categories are generalisations and sometimes a village might have other services, or a town might be smaller that the population ranges stated. The definitions here are meant to be a guide.
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Lesson video

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6 Questions

Q1.
Which of these is not a country in the UK?
England
Correct answer: Ireland
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Q2.
Match the countries of the UK to their capital cities.
Correct Answer:England,London

London

Correct Answer:Wales,Cardiff

Cardiff

Correct Answer:Scotland,Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Correct Answer:Northern Ireland,Belfast

Belfast

Q3.
Which of these are human features?
rivers
Correct answer: motorways
Correct answer: bridges
Correct answer: houses
mountains
Q4.
Which of these are physical features?
airports
Correct answer: oceans
schools
Correct answer: cliffs
Correct answer: woodland
Q5.
What is the main type of land use in the UK?
woodland
Correct answer: agricultural
residential
industrial
Q6.
Match the OS symbol to the correct label.
Correct Answer:post office,PO

PO

Correct Answer:school,sch

sch

Correct Answer:parking,P

P

6 Questions

Q1.
Hamlets have a population of...
Correct answer: less than 500
more than. 10,000
more than 10,000,000
Q2.
Hamlets usually have facilities and services.
Correct Answer: no, zero
Q3.
_______ have a population greater than 10 million.
hamlets
towns
Correct answer: megacities
villages
Q4.
London is predicted to become a megacity by the year...
2020
2025
Correct answer: 2030
2050
Q5.
Starting with the smallest, order the settlements by size.
1 - hamlet
2 - village
3 - town
4 - city
5 - megacity
Q6.
Which settlement has the greatest range of facilities and services?
hamlet
village
town
city
Correct answer: megacity