KS4 GEOGRAPHY HOMEWORK GRID
Year 10 – Unit 1 - Geography
The Urban Environment
Each week your teacher will set you one of the tasks below. You may at any point during the course of the
term complete the challenge or Exam and assessment tasks/ questions.
Year 10 – Unit 1 - Geography
Focus
Homework Tasks
Current
Learning
1. Produce a fact file of a mega city around the world.
2. Create a poster that attracts to live in Curitiba, Brazil, by advertising their
environmental solutions
3. Create a fact file about the regeneration of Newham for the London Olympics
4. Write a diary entry about the life of a child living in Dharavi slum, Mumbai
5. Create an informative advert or leaflet/poster which shows people in an LEDC how
to improve their lives through clean water and sanitation
6. Using the internet, find out more about life in Kibera. Describe the living conditions
and consider how things may be improved.
7. Plan your own zero energy development using the template provided – what
would you include and why?
8. Create your own sustainable city of the future – what would you include and why?
1. Revise the key terms: Urbanisation, Mega-city, Push factor, Pull factor, Urban
Sprawl, Global, MEDC, LEDC
2. Create a mind map for the following topics:
Urbanisation and the growth of mega-cities, Environmental Problems and
Solutions, Improving and Regenerating Deprived Areas
3. Complete the Red/Amber/Green self-assessment of your knowledge
4. Revise the key terms: Slums, Squatter Settlements, Self-help Schemes, NGO,
Brownfield, Ecological Footprint
5. Create a mind map for the following topics:
Urban growth in developing countries – Problems and Improvements, Sustainable
Urban Development, Cities for the 21st Century
1. Use the United Nations Website, or Gapminder, to identify the projected 20
largest cities in 2050 – Plot these on a world map and suggest reasons for the
pattern you find.
2. Find out about the aims of the congestion charge in London and how it works.
3. Create a world map of slum areas that have been improved (you can use
examples such as Rio, Curitiba and Kibera to get you started)
4. Make a model of your zero energy development – be creative!
5. Create a fact file about WaterAid and annotate a world map to show the
location of their work around the world.
1. Question: Explain how an urban redevelopment project in a more developed country
has improved conditions for people. Use an example you have studied.
2. Question: Describe how conditions in urban areas are being improved in less
developed countries. Use an example(s) you have studied.
Revision
Challenge
Exam and
Assessment
tasks
KS4 GEOGRAPHY HOMEWORK GRID
Year 10 – Unit 1 - Geography
Coastal Environments
Each week your teacher will set you one of the tasks below. You may at any point during the course of the
term complete the challenge or Exam and assessment tasks/ questions.
Focus
Homework Tasks
Current
Learning
1. Research and create a fact file on the mixed uses of a stretch of coastline e.g.
Florida
2. Create a brochure about Dubai or Bahia promoting tourism and business
development on the coastline.
3. Create an annotated picture of the landforms of a ‘hard’ coastline.
4. Create an annotated picture of the landforms of a ‘soft’ coastline.
5. Create a ‘dummies’ guide on how Spits and Bars are formed.
6. Develop a leaflet advising the Dorset council on the different types of coastal
management techniques available to them. Include soft and hard engineering
strategies.
7. Create an annotated world map of the coastal ecosystems under threat.
8. Create an information poster informing people about how climate change (rising
sea levels) may affect coastal areas around the world.
9. Draw up a 5 point plan on how to sustainably reduce pressure on the
Mediterranean Sea
1. Revise the key terms for a test- Constructive, Destructive, Erosion, Marine Erosion,
Abrasion, Attrition, Hydraulic Action, Weathering, Corrosion and Wetting/Drying.
2. Revise the key terms for a test- Hard engineering, Soft engineering, Sea Walls, Rock
Armour, Revetments, Gabions, Offshore breakwater, groynes, beach
replenishment, beach recycling and beach re-profiling.
3. Complete the Red/Amber/Green self-assessment of your knowledge
4. Create a Revision mind map on: -coastal uses and demands, Physical processes.
5. Create a Revision mind map on: -management techniques and sustainable
management.
Revision
Challenge
Exam and
Assessment
tasks
1. Explain why costal protection is needed at West Bay, Dorset and explain what
coastal management techniques have been implemented.
www.dorsetforyou.com
2. Make an edible model of the landforms of a ‘hard’ coastline.
3. Make flim/animation of the processes and land features of a coastline.
1. Explain why increasing numbers of people are living in coastal areas. Use an
example(s) you have studied.
2. Explain how sediment is moved along a beach. You may use a diagram
3. Describe how fragile coastal environments can be protected from overuse.
4. Explain the conflict between economic development and the need for conservation
in coastal areas