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Where did Early Settlers Choose to Live?
Objectives
To learn about the characteristics of early settlements.
Resources
📊 How were early settlements chosen? (PowerPoint) | 📄 Site Advantages and Disadvantages Worksheet | 📄 Site Factors Worksheet | Optional: Internet and/or dictionary
Today's Lesson
Main Activity
During the last lesson we looked at how we can identify settlements on a map. But why did settlers choose these places? Ask your student to imagine that they are an early settler arriving in a strange land – what would you look for when deciding where to live?
Read through the How were early settlements chosen? PowerPoint together.
Then ask your student to use these slides to complete first the Site Advantages and Disadvantages worksheet and then the Site Factors worksheet.
Challenge Activity
Very old settlements with a Viking, Saxon or Norman history often have names ending in certain letters, for example: ‘-by’,
‘-ton’, ‘-chester’, ‘-ham’ or ‘-don’. Can your student find out what each of these endings means? Can they find three examples of modern place names for each ending?