Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Locate three features on an aerial photograph of the school and know the name of the country and village, town or city in which they live.
- Make a map of the classroom with four key features, using objects to represent the distance and direction of features in the classroom.
- Recognise four features in the school grounds using a map.
- Explain how they feel about three areas of the playground and find out how others feel by looking at the results of a survey.
- Draw a design to improve three areas of the playground using the results from the survey.
Lesson 3 involves fieldwork on the school grounds. It is important to risk-assess the proposed route taking into account any relevant school risk assessment policies and procedures. Refer to the Before the lesson section in Lesson 3 to prepare for this lesson. Please be aware this lesson may take longer than 1 hour.
Suggested prior learning
Exploring maps
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Where in the world are we?
Lesson 2: What can we see in our classroom?
Lesson 3: What can we find in our school grounds?
Lesson 4: Where are the different places in our school?
Lesson 5: How do we feel about our playground?
Lesson 6: Can we make our playground even better?
Key skills
- Recognising some physical features
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Key knowledge
- To know that the
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Key vocabulary
aerial photograph
aerial view
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Unit resources
Assessment – Geography Y1: What is it like here?
Assessment resources for this unit. Use
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Knowledge organiser
Aimed at pupils, a single page
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Unit vocabulary
A display version of the vocabulary
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Subject resources
Policy support
This document outlines the intent and
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Geography: Long-term plans
A collection of documents providing a
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National curriculum mapping
Showing each of the National curriculum's
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Geography: Pupil progression of skills
Progression documents showing how skills and
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Assessment
A downloadable spreadsheet to record teacher
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Equipment list
A list of essential and optional
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Mappingㅤ
This document shows schools how our
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Cross-curricular opportunities
English
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments.
- listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers.’
See National Curriculum – English key stages 1 to 2.