India's Megacities

Q1: What issues might this cause for the UK?

1.

How is natural increase calculated?

2.

What is this type of coastal defence called?

3.

What term means that few people live in an
area?

4.

Which continent has the densest
population?

Be Brilliant

Starter: What do you think this map

shows?

Challenge: What could we be studying

today?
TC Places
& Patterns

Date: 19 February,
2020

Title:

The Big
Picture

Connect
and Engage

Learning Objectives:

Know that large-scale population movements is
occurring in India
Know what urbanisation is
Know the causes of urbanisation in LIC/NEEs like India

TIB: large scale urbanisation is causing huge social and
environmental changes in many LIC/NEE cities

Keywords: urbanisation rural-urban migration push factors pull factors megacity

TC
Processes

Why are people moving to India’s
megacities?

Multiple Choice

True of False: Some places are more crowded than others?

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: Europe is densely populated.

• True

• False

Hotspot

Where is the Sahara Desert?

Multiple Choice

True or False: South America is the most crowded continent

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Greenland, North Canada and Australia are sparsely populated

• True

• False

Fill in the Blanks

The most sparsely populated continent is

Fill in the Blanks

The world’s population is not evenly distributed.  The most crowded continent is

What does this
graph tell us?

Can you suggest
reasons for this?

Percentage of population living in cities (urban areas)
Percentage of population living in the countryside (rural areas)

Place &
pattern

In the ten years between 1971 and 2001, by what proportion did the population of
Mumbai increase? (approximately)

This pattern is

being seen across

India’s cities

Place,
pattern &
process

Key Words

• Rural-Urban Migration - The movement of people from the countryside to cities.

• Push Factor - The characteristics of a place which make you want to leave (E.g. lack of electricity)

• Pull Factor - The characteristics of a place which make you want to move there (E.g. better paid jobs)

Multiple Choice

Which of these statements is true?

• Currently most people in India live in towns and cities

• Currently most Indian people live in urban areas, but by 2050 most Indian people will live in rural areas.

• Currently most Indian people live in rural  areas, but by 2050 most Indian people will live in urban areas.

Multiple Choice

What is it called when people move from the countryside to the city?

• Urbanisation

• Rural to urban migration

• Immigration

• International migration

Multiple Choice

What is a reason meaning that people will want to leave a place?

• Pull factor

• Push factor

• Place factor

• Prime factor

Meet Ranjit...

Name: Ranjit
Age: 22
Family: married, 2 sons.
Current home: Province.
Small farmhouse.
Job: Subsistence rice
farmer.

Stakeholder &
perspectives

Ranjit’s ambitions...

Ranjit has dreams of
moving to Mumbai. He
believes that life will be
better in a big city. He
hopes that he will be
able to make enough
money to send some
back to his family.

Stakeholder &
perspectives

• Read through the reasons why Ranjit wants to leave his village and move to Mumbai.

• Decide which of these are Push factors (pushing him away from the countryside) and which are Pull factors (pulling him towards the city)

​

Task

Ranjit is just one in hundreds of millions of people who have

moved to cities throughout India.

What do you think are the 2 most significant PUSH and PULL

factors?

Place &
perspectives

Life in the city...

•
Watch the Youtube clip showing life for a family in Mumbai. As
you watch, note down the positive (good) and negative (bad)
things about city life.

•
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUqkPABhIgY

Positives

Negatives

Stakeholder &
perspectives

Consolidate

Review our learning – threshold
concepts

Which of the threshold concepts
have you learnt something about
today?

Give examples of what you have
learnt.

?????

Challenge: A rural-urban migration
storyboard

• Create a 6 stage storyboard about the migration of Ranjit

(or other character ) from the Indian countryside to a large
city such as Mumbai

• First 3 stages should show life in the countryside (pushes)

• The 4th stage should show Ranjit (or other character)

travelling to the city

• The 5th and 6th stage should show what life is like in the

city – the good and the bad points.

Process &
perspectives

Other clips about Life in the city

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c1TwqoljIU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAKFR5uksgo

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-21963430

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_clX1WACZ6Y