Lesson Planning
You need to prepare your presentation for the Department for Planning on planet Epra, in order to save your school and local area from over development. Annotate a satellite image of your area and find out more about current land use before creating a presentation that brings all of your arguments together.
Teaching Outcomes
- To research data on local land use.
- To create a presentation showing local land use and the potential impact of a substantial commercial development.
Children will
- Use digital technologies to highlight the physical and human features of their school and its surroundings.
- Create a presentation, video or podcast that show key features of their school and its surroundings and argues against a supermarket development.
Enrichment Activities
- Write a newspaper article describing changes over time of human and physical features.
- Create graphs based on surveys and data about the school.
- Record a tour of the school grounds and interviews about them.
- Take, edit and print digital photographs.
- Take photographs that show texture, light and form.
- Write a poem about the features of the local area.