Health in Stoke [GCSE]

Investigating Geography of Health in Stoke-on-Trent

pho10.jpg (190773 bytes) Pupils at Sandon and Edensor High School, investigated the geography of health in their city. They examined patterns, they were shocked at the poor health levels of some health data between. It didn't stop there!

Pauline Marsden,
Head of Geography,
Sandon High School,
Meir, Stoke-on-Trent

Rob Whiting,
Head of Geography,
Edensor High School,
Stoke-on-Trent

Overall Aims

Increase awareness of health inequality in Stoke-on-Trent;
Analyse geographical patterns and data;
Develop understanding of multi-agencies involved in decision making about health issues;

Outline of lessons and downloadable resources

You can download the planning resources quickly by right clicking on the link and selecting ‘Save target as’. They are all word documents.

The Enquiry is the overview

The planning grid is the more detail planning

Lesson 1
Definitions and key terms is an exercise to establish key terms.

Lesson 2
The base map for Stoke-on-Trent by ward

The data for the choropleth maps is a word document but could easily be adapted and pasted into a spreadsheet.

Lesson 3 pho14.jpg (173205 bytes)

The Health Action Zone Newspaper article

The Roles and Agencies matching exercise

Lesson 4

The Images list which will be available shortly

The Health Action Planning writing frames

This project was funded and supported by

This page last updated 07 July 2006