Sustainable Cities

Objectives

To introduce the concept of sustainability and to look at ways in which cities can be made more sustainable.

Resources

📄 Sustainable Cities Worksheet | Masdar City (YouTube)

Today's Lesson

Main Activity

We have seen that cities in richer and poorer countries have problems. Some of these could be solved by making cities more sustainable. Do you know what that means?

Read through the worksheet Sustainable Cities with your student and then ask them to complete the written tasks.

During the next lesson, for their next assessed piece of work, your student will be designing an advert for a new sustainable city. Have a short discussion about the kinds of things they might like to include in a new city for the future.

Watch the Masdar City Welcome Video together now, and ask your student to start to make notes on what their city will be like. Remind them to think about the three elements of sustainability - people, the environment and the economy.

WATCH – Masdar City (YouTube)

Challenge Activity

There is an 'eco-town' called Whitehill Bordon in the UK. Can your student use the Internet to find out what it is like? Can they find any ideas there that they could include in their own proposed city?

Citations

[1] www.youtube.com