Lesson Planning

Alien Alice is visiting your school from an intergalactic primary school on Mars. She wants to find out all about your school grounds to help develop their grounds back home. You will need to create a guided walk based on your own fieldwork that takes in the key features of your school.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To complete fieldwork in the school grounds to identify key features.
• To map key features of the school grounds using photographs and a simple key.
• To use directional language to describe a given route.

Children will:

• Take photographs and label key human and physical features of their school and its grounds.
• Create a guided walk around the school which highlights the geography of their school.
• Annotate a simple map of the school.

Enrichment Activities

• Draw a building or section of a building.
• Order school information on a timeline and write an email.
• Identify and draw plants in the school grounds.
• Find out about the roles of local people who help us.
• Design a healthy sandwich and/or smoothie.