Shopping!

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

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Objectives

Geography

Use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of their school, together with its grounds and the key human & physical features of its surrounding environment.
Use simple compass directions (North, South, East and West) and locational and directional language (near and far; left and right) to describe the location of features and routes on a map.
Devise a simple map.
Use and construct basic symbols in a key.
Use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key physical & human features.

Lesson Planning

What shops do we have in our locality? One pirate wants an ice-cream, another a comic and a third new boots – where can we buy these items?

Teaching Outcomes
To use geographical language and their knowledge of the local area to help pirates visit local shops.

Children will:

Conduct visual survey of all shops in locality, including coffee shops, charity shops, hairdressers, post-office.
Hopefully interview shopkeepers (ready primed) about how a shop works.
Create and describe routes from school to shop(s).
Role play shop keepers and customers.

Planning

Provided Resources

This session does not need any provided resources.

You Will Need

Pirate role play outfits for 3 visiting pirates
Toys/puppets dressed as pirates
Locational/directional vocabulary key word cards or poster
Strips of A3 paper for routes
Role-play resources

Weblinks

School visit to Sainsbury’s from news.stv.tv
Tesco’s school food education programme from schooltravelorganiser.com