SETTLEMENT STUDIES – Introduction to urbanisation

GRADE 8 GEOGRAPHY                                                                  DATE: 13 AUGUST 2020

SETTLEMENTS – WORKSHEET 4                                      URBAN LAND USE

LEARNING OUTCOMES

When you have completed this work sheet you will be able to:

  1. Name and describe six types of land use zones in an urban area.
  2. Locate and describe land use zones on a map of an urban area and explain why they are probably located where they are.
  3. Explain what urbanisation is and how it affects people’s lives.
  4. Use De Bono’s PMI thinking tool to discuss urbanisation.
  5. Interpret a line graph

INPUTS

Presentation – Settlements 2 Settlements 2 Urbanisation

Ranby, P., Johannesson, B., and M. Monteith (2013) Platinum Social Sciences Grade 8. Cape Town. Pearson pp. 68-69

LEARNING TASKS

  1. Complete the table below by using a label from Column A for each of the Areas in Column B
A B C
Central business district Frere Hospital complex  
Low income housing Nahoon Beach  
Middle income housing Hemingways Mall  
High income housing Duncan Village  
Light industrial Lower Oxford Street  
Heavy industrial Arcadia  
Commercial Cambridge  
Administration and services MBSA West Bank  
Recreation and conservation Bunkers Hill  
  Jan Smuts Stadium  
  UFH Campus  
  1. Do activity 3 no 1,3 and 4 and Activity 4 No 1,2 and 3 from the hand out
  2. Refer to the graph on slide 5 and do the questions in slide 6.

 

  1. Do the task on slide 9

 

SUBMISSION

Compile your work in a single bound document with your name and submit it by Friday 28 August.

ASSESSMENT

This work sheet will comprise 25 % of your geography assessment for the term.

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