Building Your Own Town
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Transcript of Building Your Own Town
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Settlement Sim City(Building your own town)
www.olliebray.com
Ollie BrayMusselburgh Grammar SchoolEast Lothian Council
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Instructions (1)
• This activity copies the real life historical development of a settlement from its early days as a small hamlet through to more recent times when it becomes a large and successful industrial town.
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Instructions (2)
• You are responsible for this development and have to design, plan and build your settlement according to the needs of the time.
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Instructions (3)
• You will find it best to draw everything in pencil.
• DO NOT use pen. • Try to draw your houses roads and other
features to the correct scale.• They will be very small. • Don’t forget to add any new features to
the key. • You can’t extend your settlement beyond
the size of the page.
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Instructions (4)
• Just like in real life you cannot knock down buildings or change land use without careful thought and negotiation.
• If you need to use an eraser, you must ask your teacher!
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Stage 1 - 1500
• On your piece of paper draw a river going on and off the page and two tracks.
• The tracks must cross at some point.
• Draw six farmhouses and a watermill.
• The mill must be next to the river.
• Draw everything quite small.
• Don’t forget a map key
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Stage 2 - 1600
• The tracks have developed into popular route ways.
• The village has become a market town and lots of people have moved into the area.
• You need to build:– At least 60 new houses– another four mills– a church– some shops
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Stage 3 - 1800
• It’s the Industrial Revolution, coal has been discovered near your town and it’s about to expand rapidly.
• You need to build:– a coalmine, – some new roads, – 500 new houses – as well as:
• shops, • Churches• schools
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Stage 4 – 1860
• Your town is going from strength to strength!
• You need to: – expand the coalmine– build five more factories.
• You will need at least: – another 500 new homes– other services for your population.
• Also, railways have finally made it to the area from the East. The railway should link all of your factories and the coalmine.
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Stage 5 - 1900
• Iron Ore has been discovered in your village!
• Now it’s really going to go from strength to strength!
• Your town now has about 20, 000 extra people (so work out how many extra houses you will need).
• Don’t forget you will also need shops and schools.’
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Your Town is finished!
• Give your town a name (you could always name it after yourself)
• Now think about the problems that you had.
• Make a list of the most annoying or difficult ones. Do you think that these might have also happened in real life?
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