Population, cities and movement
A land-use survey of your own street
How is land used where you live, and who is it used by?
Watch first
An English teaching video on this topic from iNewittAll. Watch it, then scroll down for the lesson.
What you need
Tick each one as you find it — 0 of 4 ready.
Stay safe: Do this with an adult, stay on the pavement, and never photograph people or private homes.
Plan the fair test
- Change: Location along the street (and time of day for the footfall counts)
- Measure: Number of plots in each land-use category, and people per five minutes
- Keep the same: Same categories, one category per plot, same counting points and count length
Objectives this evidences
- Understand population and urbanisation, including international development and the causes and effects of migration
- Understand the physical and human characteristics of an area of the UK and a wider region of the world beyond Europe
Do it, one step at a time
Step 1 of 5
- Step 1. Draw a tally sheet with categories: housing, shops, services, green space, industry, transport and empty or derelict.
- Step 2. Walk one side of a chosen street with an adult, recording every building or plot in one category only.
- Step 3. Walk the other side back and finish the tally.
- Step 4. At two fixed points, count how many people pass in five minutes, once in the morning and once in the late afternoon.
- Step 5. Colour your map by category and write a paragraph on which land use dominates and why.
What should happen
Land use is zoned rather than mixed at random, and footfall follows the shops and services rather than the housing.
Think about: Your categories forced some hard choices. Which plot was hardest to classify, and how does that affect your data?
Write up your result
A sentence or two is enough to save it.
The lessons behind this practical
Each one opens with the same short film, and the film has a written transcript underneath if reading is easier than watching.
Now the quiz for this topic
Questions come from the lessons behind this practical, so nothing is asked that has not been taught.
Quiz
Population, cities and movement quiz
4 questions from the lessons in this stage. No timer, and you can try again as many times as you like.