When we celebrate we acknowledge an important date, event or place.

A sense of place is the character of a place, or the meaning that people apply to it, including how we feel about a place.

A guide is a person, book or support that helps you find where places are and what they are like in the area you are exploring.

Investigating the outdoors using geographical tools and thinking, and gathering information or data is known as fieldwork.

A trail can be a rough marked path or a marked path with guidance about a route.

Fieldwork: our locality

Geography

Locating our place with an address and directions

Key features of our local area

Mapping places to visit in our local area

The weather where I live and in the UK

Local and national landmarks

This unit is a foundation for the more abstract contrasting locality units, enabling pupils to build on their understanding of the uniqueness of place through other cultural lenses and apply the learnt process of enquiry when finding out about places and people.

This builds on the Local to global unit which explored the local area and what made places special to enable pupils to be selective and communicate the most essential elements of their place in the form of a local area guide.

This unit explores what makes the local area special by identifying key features, landmarks and places of interest. Pupils use maps, address and direction language, local climate knowledge and fieldwork to describe and represent their locality.

Local area: why is (our place) special?

What direction does the needle on a compass point to?

Can you match these human and physical features?

Which is best for local area fieldwork, a small scale or a large scale map?

Using our senses on fieldwork helps us to...?

to think about how far we can walk safely

Why might we measure distance from school when planning fieldwork? 

What will you need for fieldwork on a hot, sunny day? 

Staying inside and not talking to anyone.

Asking questions, finding and thinking about useful information.

Using geography tools like compasses and maps, as well as your senses.

Which of these help make fieldwork great? Choose 3.

Order these parts of an address from local to national.

Which is our nearest ocean,  to the west of the UK?

a circle around the north pole on a map or globe

a circle around the south pole on a map or globe

a circle around the middle of the world on a map or globe

The most northerly country of the UK is...?

Fieldwork: our locality

Lesson outcome