Lesson Planning

Alien Alice is back but this time she wants to know about the area surrounding your school. Head off on a local area walk with your trusty camera to collect information for Alice on your local facilities and features. Report back to her using aerial images, an annotated local map and some fabulous photographs of significant features.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To take part in a local walk to gather information about local land and building use.
• To use a key, aerial photos and a local map to identify local human and physical features.

Children will:

• Take photographs and identify key human and physical features of the local environment surrounding the school.
• Annotate a local area map of the school, highlighting key features.
• Describe simple features from aerial images.

Enrichment Activities

• Order information on a timeline and write an email referring to it.
• Draw a building or a section of a building.
• Construct a key.
• Create a block chart based on local data.
• Create a cityscape of the area.