Fieldwork is investigating the outdoors using geographical tools and thinking to gather information or data.

Buildings are structures made by people that have walls and a roof, such as homes, offices, schools, shops, places of worship.

A large-scale map shows a small area on a map in a great amount of detail.

A recording sheet is where you can note your findings from fieldwork, and can include a table, chart, etc.

A display is a way of sharing your findings and can be written, drawn, spoken or be a mixture of all these methods.

Buildings and features near our school

Geography

Our homes

Our local area

The street outside our school

A survey of how we get to school

Mapping our journey to school

This unit provides a foundation for 'Local area: Routes and maps', which focuses on investigating a specific land use - play areas. It lays the foundation for subsequent fieldwork investigations in the local area in 'Local area: how is (our place) special?', and a contrasting non-European locality.

This unit builds on 'Local area: Where do we go to school?', which focuses on the school site as a place, by extending the area of investigation into the local area. It develops basic geographical vocabulary and simple mapwork and fieldwork skills, focusing on human geographical features such as local buildings, land use and  journeys.

This unit investigates the area around school and home by identifying local features, exploring buildings, using simple maps, collecting data on how we travel to school, and describing familiar routes using basic geographical vocabulary.

Local area: where do we live?

Which image shows a familiar human feature on the journey to school?

Presenting your findings can be done by...

To collect your data you need to write it on a {{}} sheet.

Geographers use a __________ to help us locate things in our local area

Why are labels around maps or photos useful?

Using language that your audience will understand

Which of these are physical features you might see in your local area?

What helps to decide the type of transport people choose to use to get to school?

you see and experience what you have learnt about in the classroom

Which of these are used as locational language?

Match the problem to a suitable solution.

Buildings and features near our school

Lesson outcome