Something that is natural has not been changed by humans.

A landscape is an area and its landforms and features that can be seen when viewed from another place.

An atlas is a book of maps of the world that show the location of places and features at global or national scale.

A survey is a way of collecting information by asking a set of questions.

The seven wonders of the natural world

Geography

Annotating our map of the school grounds

Describing and locating our favourite places

Human wonders of the world

This unit provides a foundation for investigations of the UK and London or Cardiff, and further investigation of what is special in the local area.

This unit builds on investigations of play areas in the local area, extending work on pupils’ preferred play areas and immediate locality by focusing on why some places are special.  It develops basic geographical vocabulary and simple mapwork and fieldwork skills.

This unit explores what makes places special by combining personal geography with global examples. Pupils describe, annotate and locate familiar places before learning about the natural and human wonders of the world using images, maps and geographical vocabulary.

Local to global: how can we identify special places?

How many natural wonders of the world are there?

What country is the Great Barrier Reef in?

What type of natural wonder is Victoria Falls?

What is the name of the tallest mountain in the world?

Geographers use maps to __________ a place. Unscramble the letters to find the word.

Which of these statements can be true about a special place?

Which of these words are geographical vocabulary?

Which of these are human features that make a place special?

Which of these are natural features that can make a place special?

A display to share your special place should include which of these?

The seven wonders of the natural world

Lesson outcome