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Edexcel Geography Specification A syllabus no.1312

A3 The Economic World 

5  Location of Hi-tech industry

Chapter 2  pages 61-63

Tomorrow's Geography  Mike Harcourt and Steph Warren,

published by Hodder and Stoughton 0 340 79965 X

In MEDC's, the broad physical, economic, political and human factors affecting the location of  secondary industries.

case study: the study of one modern hi-tech industry to consider the specific factors affecting its location.

students should - Explain the factors that affect the location of industry.

Describe and explain the specific locational factors of their chosen hi-tech industry.

 

Industrial location

 

Hi-tech industries

 

(4 lessons)

 

Location of industry

  1. Class discussion of factors affecting the location of industry

  2. 7.2 Locating industry sheet.

  3. sheet on Location of industry - factors .... picking which factors are especially important for locating certain industries.

  4. Tomorrow's Geography page 61 Activities question - a matrix.

  5. printed sheet  The factors that affect the location of industry ..put in the arrows and a central graphic!

 

 

checksheet for A3 Economic World 5 & 6

 

 

Bracknell for business 

 

 

 

 

 

Cambridge Science Park

Locating Hi-tech industry

Bracknell case study

 

Tomorrow's Geography page 62-63

  1. What is hi-tech industry?

  2. Explain the meaning of the word footloose when referring to industrial location?

  3. Locate Bracknell by making a small sketch map. Label Bracknell's links around the outside of the map.

  4. Make a spider diagram illustrating the locational factors that have helped Bracknell. To get better detail these can subdivide down into smaller branches.

  5. One factor helping hi-tech firms locate in an area is the availability of good leisure, recreation and educational facilities.  Why is this factor special to hi-tech firms?

  6. Worksheet 3F Employment in Bracknell .. changes in the sectors of industry in Bracknell.

  7. A comparison between Bracknell and Bangalore

  8. Make up a sheet of A4 outlining the case for Locating Hi-tech industry in the Ipswich-Colchester area. You can pick a site if you wish, and then add all the factors which make it good for this sort of industry.

     

 

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