🇬🇧 Urban Planning
Discover the complexities of urban planning, including housing, transportation, energy consumption and production, readiness for natural hazards, and sustainable development concepts. Prototype a solar panel for a sustainable city, integrating this design into their city sketches. In doing so, students will create their own unique urban layout. Students can expand their city designs upon completion whilst addressing the Sustainable Development Goals.
- SDGsEnsure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
- National CurriculumGrades: Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6Human and physical geographyHuman geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water.
- Curriculum for ExcellenceGrades: P5, P6, P7People, place and environmentI can discuss the environmental impact of human activity and suggest ways in which we can live in a more environmentally responsible way.Grades: P5, P6, P7People, place and environmentI can consider the advantages and disadvantages of a proposed land use development and discuss the impact this may have on the community.
Overview and Objectives
Lesson Structure
When students go through this lesson in each section the objectives they will learn are:
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Warm-up – Recognise that a city is a large community made up of many smaller communities where many people live and work together.
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Imagine – Explain the needs and challenges of people living in a city and potential problems or design constraints in particular cities.
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Create – Construct models of the solar panel array for the city’s sustainable infrastructure.
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Build – Build a unified city layout planning out the energy, transportation, green spaces, and housing for the community.
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Reflect – Reflect on urban planners' challenges in creating sustainable cities through student designs.
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Challenges – Extend your learning through opportunities to expand city design, focusing on sustainability and innovation.
After this lesson students will be able to:
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Discuss and explore different community needs, including connecting individual neighbourhoods into a unified city.
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Planning with a map incorporating renewable energy measures to the city's sustainable development.
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Design a city around different scenarios such as geographic location, population growth, conservation, preservation, or prevention against natural hazards.
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Practice communication skills through a collaborative large-scale project.
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Reproduce different architectural features in a variety of scales.
Structure
During the lesson, I can…
- Recognise that a city is a large community made up of many smaller communities where many people live and work together.
- Explain the needs and challenges of people living in a city and potential problems or design constraints in particular cities.
- Construct models of a solar panel array for the city’s sustainable infrastructure.
- Build a unified city layout planning out the energy, transportation, green spaces, and housing for the community.
- Reflect on urban planners' challenges in creating sustainable cities through student designs.
- Extend learning through opportunities to expand city design, focusing on sustainability and innovation.