Year 10: Settlement

Welcome to GCSE Geography. Your first module is called 'Settlement' and will explore trends in settlements and the changes which are occuring.

Here will be posted information useful to your course, homework and revision.

Topics covered so far:

• Where do all the people live? (Population distribution)
  
• How are sites chosen?
• The site and development of Nottingham
• Settlement hierarchy
• Central place theory
  
• Building at the rural-urban fringe (green and brownfield sites)
  
• Counterurbanisation (- the movement of people and jobs from urban areas into rural areas)
• A case study of a suburbanised village

Year 9 - Exploring Europe

Year 9 are studying a unit called 'Exploring Europe' which looks at the natural and human features of Europe and also explores the political issues in Europe at the moment.

Year 9 - Comment here on what you have learned in your lesson today.

Welcome

Welcome to the Long Eaton School Social Sciences blog.

This blog is designed to be updated by pupils to record what you have learned during a lesson. You may be given responsibility for updating it after a particular lesson. You should think carefully about the content of your post and make sure that it is precise and carefully written.