Many, many people around the world continue moving to urban areas - towns and cities. People usually move to cities for better jobs and services. The two causes of urbanisation are natural population increase and rural to urban migration. Urbanisation affects all sizes of settlements from small villages to towns to cities, leading up to the growth of mega-cities which have more than ten million people. The problems associated with urbanisation are: High population density, inadequate infrastructure, lack of affordable housing, flooding, pollution, slum creation, crime, congestion and poverty. This problem of high population density is caused due to the heavy rate of migration from rural areas. In this lesson, students will recognise what urbanisation is and acknowledge that urbanisation is occurring fastest in poorer countries. Furthermore, learners will assess how rural-urban migration causes urbanisation.

This Google Slides resource is a fully-digital product, containing worksheet-type ‘question & response’ pages which students can type on, directly, into text fields (students are unable to mess up the question formatting as each page is fixed as a template). This makes this resource perfect for homeschooling, distance learningand general Google Classroom assignments, whether In the school classroom or at home. The widescreen format also makes it perfect for students using Chromebooks, laptops, desktop computers, iPads or other tablet devices. This resource offers teachers the flexibility to use it however they choose without having to make any amendments.

This is a quality, ready-made lesson for the Google Classroom ecosystem, leaving the teacher with little to plan or prepare except choosing what is required for students.

The lesson includes:

• Lesson road-map: timing recommendations for teachers.
• Starter activity: designed to engage students immediately thereby increasing focus and managing behaviour in the classroom.
• Learning: student-centred learning tasks aimed at encouraging self responsibility for learning, developing study skills and learning.
• Application of Learning: a menu of classroom tasks, graded by challenge, based on the learning element of the class. Stretch & Challenge tasks are provided for gifted and talented students as well as a creative writing task with a language framework for students of all abilities.
• Final Plenary: This links back to the lesson objectives and ensures that the teacher is better able to carry out assessment for learning (AFL) and identify general student progress.
• Teacher Resources: classroom content and worksheets are filed under this section.
• Teacher Notes: Recommendations for teachers in the speaker notes sections of many Google Slides.

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