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- Year 2
How are settlements shaped?
Settlements come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. In today's lesson we will be thinking about why settlements take the shapes that they do. This will involve taking a trip back in history to think about the first time that humans began to settle!
- Year 2
How are settlements shaped?
Settlements come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. In today's lesson we will be thinking about why settlements take the shapes that they do. This will involve taking a trip back in history to think about the first time that humans began to settle!
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- How early settlements were different to settlements today
- How settlements vary in shape
- How settlements have patterns
Licence
5 Questions
Q1.Which of these are natural resources that might make humans settle in a location? (Choose three)
Q2.What is the population of China?
Q3.True or false? All places around the world have the same natural resources nearby.
Q4.Which of these is in order from smallest to largest?
Q5.Skara Brae had a lake nearby.
5 Questions
Q1.What type of settlement pattern is this?

Q2.What type of settlement pattern is this?

Q3.What type of settlement pattern is this?

Q4.Which type of settlements began to develop during the industrial revolution?
Q5.What type of settlement pattern is this?
