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Save your School: Mapping Land Use

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Geographical Skills - Mini topic Building Skills in Geography and Geographical Skills - Mini topic Building Skills in Geography

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Objectives

Geography

  • Use fieldwork to observe, measure, record and present the human and physical features in the local area using a range of methods, including sketch maps, plans and graphs, and digital technologies.
  • Identify human and physical characteristics, key topographical features (including hills, mountains, coasts and rivers), and land-use patterns.
  • Understand how some human and physical characteristics have changed over time.

Enrichment Activities

  • History: Study a site dating from a period beyond 1066 that is significant in the locality; Select and organise relevant historical information; Carry out a study over time tracing how several aspects of national history are reflected in the locality.
  • Art & Design: Create sketch books to record their observations; Improve mastery of drawing; Improve mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing.
  • Computing: Select and use software to design and create content that presents data and information.
  • D&T: Select from and use construction materials.
  • Maths: Find area by counting squares; Construct pie charts and use them to solve problems; Identify fractions or percentages.

Lesson Planning

Aliens are planning to flatten your local area in order to build an intergalactic supermarket. It is your job to present the arguments for saving your school and its surroundings by highlighting the importance of its current land use.

Teaching Outcomes

  • To sketch maps and plans of the school and surroundings area.
  • To gather information about land use within their school and its surrounding area.

Children will

  • Research and record detail of their school and its surroundings to maps.
  • Identify and categorise land use within their school and its surroundings.

Enrichment Activities

  • Sketch in detail local historic buildings.
  • Create a printed local specialist audience guide.
  • Use construction kits to build a 3D version of the school and local area.
  • Sketch a street view of the local area showing perspective.
  • Create a pie chart showing green land use vs urban land use.

You Will Need

  • Copies of a basic plan map of the school and surroundings
  • Internet access.

You will need additional resources for the Enrichment Activities.

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