An area is a particular portion of the Earth's surface and it can be as small as a park or as large as an ocean.

Local means an area which the people who live there are familiar with, and encounter in their everyday lives.

Range means the distance and extent an individual may travel in their everyday lives.

A symbol is used to show an important landmark, place, feature or area of a map, diagram or drawing.

Mapping places to visit in our local area

Geography

Locating our place with an address and directions

Key features of our local area

The weather where I live and in the UK

Local and national landmarks

Fieldwork: our locality

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?

the area where someone lives that they know well

The size of one person's local area can be different to another person's - true or false?

Which of these places do you expect most of your classmates to visit in a typical school week? Order from most to least.

to think about routes, travel and local development

Why might geographers want to know where people go in the local area? 

Our local area is part of the UK. What are the different countries that make up the UK? Choose four answers.

Which countries make up the island of Great Britain?

Which of these are physical features? Choose two answers.

What do we use to find out what symbols on a map mean? 

What kind of feature is the local take-away shop?

Can you order these from smallest to largest?

Mapping places to visit in our local area

Lesson outcome