Save your School: Digital Analysis and Presentation

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

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.
  • Maths: Construct bar charts; Construct pie charts and use them to solve problems; Identify fractions or percentages.
  • Computing: Select, use and combine a variety of software to create content that accomplishes given goals, including collecting, analysing, evaluating and presenting data and information.
  • English: Speak audibly and fluently with an increasing command of Standard English; Participate in presentations; Write a poem
  • Art & Design: Improve mastery of art and design techniques.

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.

You Will Need

  • Internet access

You will need additional resources for the Enrichment Activities.

Weblinks

Google Maps from google.co.uk
Google earth from google.co.uk

There are additional weblinks for the Enrichment Activities.