1. Where is the best place to live?
Site
Anywhere people live.
What is around the settlement.
Situation
The actual place where the settlement started.
Settlement

2. Where is the best place to live?
Today we are learning about…
why places with more advantageous site and situational factors will be more populated than places with less advantageous site and situational factors.
By the end of the lesson…
ALL can describe some positive and negative site and situational factors (Level 3-4)
MOST will be able to draw a population distribution map and explain the distribution (Level 5)
SOME will be able to compare two areas and explain the differences in population density in detail (Level 6)

3. Factors that affect where we live Communications (roads)
Bad
Good
Climate
Relief
Soil
Vegetation
Height
Food and Water
Raw Materials
Jobs
Communications (roads)
Very cold or hot
Steep slopes
Poor soil
Rainforest
Upland
Very dry
Few materials
Little industry
Poor communications
No Extremes
Flat
Fertile
Grassland
Lowland
Rivers
Lots of raw materials
Industry
Good transport

4. What are the factors here?

5. What are the factors here?

6. What are the factors here?

7. What are the factors here?

8. Where is the best place to live?
Use page Copy table B, leaving enough room for 10 areas.
Fill the table in.
Choose 3 colours to show dense, sparse and average population density. Colour in your map to show the population density of your island.
Decide where you would put 3 main towns, describe what each location would be like and EXPLAIN why you have chosen those places. You might want to compare different parts of the island.
Complete your map by colouring it in and naming it.

9. Where is the best place to live?
Today we are learning about…
why places with more advantageous site and situational factors will be more populated than places with less advantageous site and situational factors.
By the end of the lesson…
ALL can describe some positive and negative site and situational factors (Level 3-4)
MOST will be able to draw a population distribution map and explain the distribution (Level 5)
SOME will be able to compare two areas and explain the differences in population density in detail (Level 6)

10. Homework
Finish today’s work, including the population density map and your explanations of where you will put your three main towns.