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I-Spy around my locality

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

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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.
  • Use simple compass directions and locational and directional language to describe the location of features and routes on a map.

History

  • Learn about significant historical events, people and places in their own locality.

Lesson Planning

Learn significant places in the locality and draw routes to show how to reach them from our homes. Mystery Little Pig inserts his route into plenary!

Teaching Outcomes
 To create a plan of route from school to home including points of local interest and give directions to journey along that route.

Children will:

  • Use local resources to investigate specific historical and/or geographical features of Our Locality.
  • Draw routes from home to significant places.
  • Use directional language.
  • Use simple points on a compass.

Provided Resources

This session does not need any provided resources.

You Will Need

  • Map created in session 2
  • A3 paper for each child to draw their route
  • Key word cards – right, left, forwards, backwards, north, south, east, west
  • Small world person for each child
  • Toy pig ideally from Three Little Pigs story sack

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