Lesson Planning
Aliens are planning to flatten your local area in order to build an intergalactic supermarket. It is your job to present the arguments for saving your school and its surroundings by highlighting the importance of its current land use.
Teaching Outcomes
- To sketch maps and plans of the school and surroundings area.
- To gather information about land use within their school and its surrounding area.
Children will
- Research and record detail of their school and its surroundings to maps.
- Identify and categorise land use within their school and its surroundings.
Enrichment Activities
- Sketch in detail local historic buildings.
- Create a printed local specialist audience guide.
- Use construction kits to build a 3D version of the school and local area.
- Sketch a street view of the local area showing perspective.
- Create a pie chart showing green land use vs urban land use.