Representation of what it means to pull-you want something
respresentation of push-something must move away
Rural Nigeria
Urban area
Urban Australia
urbanisation answers
Urbanisation problems memo guide
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Urban Jhb
What is Urbanisation
Geography Grade 8
Overview
This Urbanisation lesson uses a range of resources such as:
- powerpoint presentations
- written texts
- activities
- Youtube videos
- images
Urbanisation
Settlement (Africa with a focus on South Africa)
- Settlement and land use
- Urban settlements and land use
- Land use and aerial photographs
- types of aerial photographs
- Information from aerial photographs
- Identifying land use from aerial photographs
- Investigation of settlement (project)- will be discussed in class
- Urbanisation
- Which Citites are growing-Push and Pull factors
- Overview of urbanisation - issues associated with Apartheid Population Control
- Social Issues related to the rapid growth of Cities
In this lesson we will focus on urbanisation
Grade 8 Learners
This lesson will form the basis of a very Important part of your work for the term. Not only will it be important for your school assessment but it will help you understand our city (Johannesburg) a little better and it will provide reasons for certain occurrences in the city.
Please follow the lesson in order so that you are not confused. Before we begin with the lesson make sure that you have read and understood the overview of this term's work above and have watched the attached video entitled 'what is urbanisation?'. If you have not watched the video you can watch it here
To start the lesson click here to go to the next page
Urbanisation Presentation
Please watch the short presentation where Urbanisation and Characteristics of Urbanisation will be explained in greater detail.
Before you watch this video please make sure that you have watched the video entitled 'what is urbanisation?' if you have not you can watch it here
There are also additional pictures that can aid in your understanding of urban and rural areas that i have attached for you. see the attachments at the bottom of this page.
To proceed to the activity click here
Questions
Once you are done watching the video presentation please complete the following questions below, if you wish to complete the questions on your computer I have also attached the editable word document below.
To refresh your memory you can look at the two gifs I have posted below to show the representations of push and pull. Remember: Push-away (from rural area) Pull-towards-urban area
Urbanisation Grade 8
Urbanisation- ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Rural-Urban Migration ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Migrant_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Push Factor_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pull Factor____________________________________________________________________
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Push Factors | Pull Factors |
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What were racial groupings in Apartheid like?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Which areas were considered urban areas and which areas were considered rural areas?_____________________________________________________________
Using the graph in the presentation how will the amount of people living in urban areas change compared to that of rural areas?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
You can check your answers in the document entitled 'urbanisation answer' but please complete the worksheet before checking your answers and do not look at the powerpoint presentation again.
click here to proceed to problems relating to urbanisation or if you want to go back to the previous page click here
Problems with Urbanisation
Now that we know the what Urbanisation is and why people move to urban areas we can look at the problems associated with urbanisation.
Watch the Youtube Video on Problems relating to Urbanisation and the proceed to the activity
Problems relating to Urbanisation Activity
Now, that you have watched the video on Problems relating to Urbanisation, please complete the activity below but first watch the presentation that will help you undertand how to go about doing it.
If you have not watched the video on problems relating to Urbanisation please go back to the previous page and watch it before you proceed.
I have attached a memo below for you to check your answers once you are done. This memo is different because it doesnt give you all the answers but it gives you a guide to tell you what should be in your diagram.