Lesson Planning

The pirates want to play! Use Google earth and map of the local area to locate parks and playgrounds; is there enough play space to satisfy pirates’ play needs to prevent them becoming mischievous?

Teaching Outcomes
To consider provision of recreational green space in the locality and debate whether this meets local need.

Children will:

• Become more familiar with their locality.
• Identify green spaces suitable for recreation on map of locality.
• Debate whether there is a need for more play space, sharing opinion and giving reasons for that opinion.
• Compose class letter either thanking local council for all the play space available or requesting more be made available.