This project is intended as a culminating task for Grade 8 Geography - Global Settlement: Patterns and Sustainability.
 
For this assignment, students will design a sustainable settlement with 400 housing units. They will apply what they have learned about types of land use, sustainability, and human settlement to design their own community, including infrastructure, community services, waste disposal, and residential areas. After planning their design, they will draw it on Bristol board with a written explanation of its unique features.
 
For research, students can use notes that they took during the unit, their geography textbook, other non-fiction texts, or online sources.
 
This resource includes:
4-page Lesson Plan (With expectations, learning goal/success criteria, possible accommodations, and assessment strategies
Assignment Overview
Example Map
Research Pages (2 pages)
Planning Pages (4 pages)
Peer Review
Written Explanation
Rubric
 
Ontario Curriculum: Overall Expectations
Grade 8 Geography - Global Settlement: Patterns and Sustainability
A1. analyse some significant interrelationships between Earth’s physical features and processes and human settlement patterns, and some ways in which the physical environment and issues of sustainability may affect settlement in the future
A2. use the geographic inquiry process to investigate issues related to the interrelationship between human settlement and sustainability from a geographic perspective
A3. demonstrate an understanding of significant patterns and trends related to human settlement and of ways in which human settlement affects the environment

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