Lesson Planning

Expand and apply your mapping skills as you take on a mission from MI6 to identify and describe the locations of a series of operatives. Then find a suitable new location for an overseas base.

Teaching Outcomes

• To use maps, atlases, and digital maps to find specific features and places.
• To identify physical and human features on a map.
• To describe physical and human features from a map.

Children will

• Locate places around the world using maps, atlases, globes and digital mapping.
• Identify and describe physical and human features on maps.
• Use online mapping tools.

Enrichment Activities

• Annotate a map with native animals.
• Devise clues for a country reflecting geographical features.
• Create an illustrated map page about a European country.
• Make self-portraits reflecting where children are from or places they have visited.
• Write an adventure story based in a South American country.