Lesson 1: What factors lead to the development of settlements?
What: What are the characteristics of settlements?
Why: To understand the positive physical features that result in the development of human settlements
How:
STARTER:
What is a settlement?
What types of settlement do you know about?
What: What are the characteristics of settlements?
Why: To understand the positive physical features that result in the development of human settlements
How:
- Investigate types of settlement
- Role play to understand settlement site
- Investigate our own settlement (Houston) with regard to its site and situation features
STARTER:
What is a settlement?
What types of settlement do you know about?
Why was Houston chosen as a site for a settlement?
SITE: the ground on which the settlement stands, described in terms of its physical characteristics
Task:
SITUATION: the location of the settlement relative to its surroundings, described in relation to other settlements, rivers, transport lines etc.
Task:
How has Houston grown and developed over-time?
Settlement function means the main purposes/uses of a settlement e.g. port, industrial, residential, tourism etc.
Settlement function may change over-time.
Task:
SITE: the ground on which the settlement stands, described in terms of its physical characteristics
Task:
- Using the information we have learnt about the site of a settlement decide why Houston was chosen as a site for a settlement.
- Some further research would also help with accuracy on this – here are a couple of useful sites:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Houston
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Houston
- Use google maps or google earth to produce a series of annotated maps/satellite images of the Houston area to show why the site was chosen for a settlement (one of my examples is on the slide show above).
- REMEMBER THAT SITE FEATURES SHOULD ONLY BASED ON THE NATURAL LANDSCAPE.
SITUATION: the location of the settlement relative to its surroundings, described in relation to other settlements, rivers, transport lines etc.
Task:
- Produce an annotated map to show Houston’s situation.
How has Houston grown and developed over-time?
- Find out about Houston’s growth and development over-time by using websites such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Houston
- Produce a timeline, including at least 10 key dates, to explain how and why the city has over-time. Think about population growth, deveopment of industries, notable people, investment, government policies etc
- You may decide how you would like to produce/present your timeline.
Settlement function means the main purposes/uses of a settlement e.g. port, industrial, residential, tourism etc.
Settlement function may change over-time.
Task:
- Use your timeline to explain how Houston’s functions have changed over-time.
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