Lesson Planning

Expand and apply your mapping skills by taking part in a treasure hunt. To succeed you will need to use maps, atlases, and digital maps to describe the features you find to help locate four mystery UK counties.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To use atlases and digital maps to find features and places in the UK.
• To use symbols and keys to identify physical and human features on a map.
• To identify UK counties through key physical and human features.

Children will:

• Use maps, atlases and digital maps to locate counties in the UK.
• Identify physical and human features of UK counties on maps.
• Use maps and atlases to describe physical and human features.

Enrichment Activities

• Explore historical maps to understand how maps and land use have changed over time.
• Describe key features and characteristics of their locality.
• Represent information in the form of an infographic.
• Describe typographical contours and make lino prints of mountains
• Complete quizzes to test their knowledge of the counties of the UK.