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Treasure Maps: Compasses and Contours

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 symbols and keys (including the use of OS maps) to build knowledge of the UK.
  • Identify human and physical characteristics, key topographical features and land-use patterns.

Enrichment Activities

  • English: Use simple organisational devices [headings and sub-headings]; Write for a range of real purposes and audiences; Discuss writing similar to that which will be written in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar.
  • Art & Design: Improve mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture, with a range of materials.
  • 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.
  • Music: Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music; Use and understand staff and other musical notations; Appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians.

Lesson Planning

Learn how to use a compass and how to read the typography of the land. Can you then create a treasure map and use your understanding of compass directions and contours to set clues that unlock a password and the location of the treasure?

Teaching Outcomes

  • To use a compass.
  • To use grid references, compass directions and symbols to locate places on a map.
  • To describe human and physical features, including contours and relief.

Children will

  • Use a compass correctly.
  • Create a treasure map using compass directions, contours and symbols.
  • Describe direction, and human and physical features of a journey.

Enrichment Activities

  • Write a tourist guide using persuasive language.
  • Sculpt a landscape from clay using a hill drawn in contour lines for inspiration.
  • Complete a map-based scavenger hunt using an interactive map.
  • Create a sketch/painting.
  • Compose a short musical piece that reflects a landscape.

You Will Need

  • Chalk or masking tape
  • Coloured pens
  • Internet access

You will need additional resources for the Enrichment Activities.

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