Travel to school survey

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Local Studies: Our School and Local Area Our School

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Objectives

Geography

Use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of their school and its grounds and the key human and physical features of its surrounding environment.

Maths (Statistics)

Interpret and construct simple pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and simple tables.
Ask and answer simple questions by counting the number of objects in each category and sorting the categories by quantity.
Ask and answer questions about totalling and comparing categorical data.

Lesson Planning

Rosie’s noticed none of the children have wings – how do they get to school? They obviously can’t fly (as Rosie would!)

Teaching Outcomes
To create a simple block graph to show results of a travel to school survey; think about local travel options; road safety.

Children will:

Create a block graph to show how chn travelled to school that morning.
Paint mode of transport to create visual wall display.
Write road safety rules for pedestrians, cyclists (scooter riders), drivers; add to display.

Planning

Provided Resources

This session does not need any provided resources.

You Will Need

Rosie puppet
Square sticky note, 1 for each child
paper and painting equipment
Pre-prepared block graph A1 size, with title ‘How did we travel to school this morning?’ together with two axes labelled ‘Number of children’ and ‘How we travelled’

Weblinks

Walk to school week from livingstreets.org.uk
Topsy and Tim walk to school - YouTube clip
Road safety advice aimed at adults from nidirect.gov.uk
Child-friendly road safety advice from think.direct.gov.uk