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Is our local area a risky place? Year 9 Risky World Year 9 Risky World Lesson 2 Lesson 2 Pupils will: •Understand how to obtain data about their local area •Use local area data to make decisions about levels of risk •Make comparisons with other urban areas and suggest reasons for differences

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Year 9 Unit 2 Risky Places

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Page 1: Is Our Local Area A Risky Place Risky World L2

Is our local area a risky place?

Year 9 Risky WorldYear 9 Risky WorldLesson 2Lesson 2

•Pupils will:•Understand how to obtain data about their local area•Use local area data to make decisions about levels of risk•Make comparisons with other urban areas and suggest reasons for differences

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Starter

• Write a descriptive paragraph titled “How risky is my local area?”

• Must include: human and physical risks, named examples / or personal experiences to support

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• As a class we will make a list about all the human and physical risks we can think of in our local area.

• How could we find out more / prove that these are real risks?

• Crime examples• http://maps.police.uk/• Neighbourhood Statistics

Real Risks

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Neighbourhood Statistics 2005-2007

• Look at the data for Wolverhampton.• What questions would you ask about this?• Now look at the data for Telford and Stoke• What comparisons can we make?• Would these comparisons be fair?• TASKTASK• Choose 5 indicators (e.g. violence against the person) and

then create a graph to compare Wolverhampton / Telford and Stoke

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Homework

• Using the 2 websites introduced earlier:

• Write a brief report (no more than 250 words) about YOUR AREA (use postcode) that would be useful to somebody wanting to move to the area

• Extend: annotated maps