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

Familiar street features are those items that you usually find near to roads and pavements.

A street is a road, usually with houses or buildings on both sides.

A danger is a cause of something bad happening.

The street outside our school

Geography

Our homes

Our local area

Buildings and features near 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 of these statements correctly describes fieldwork?

Geographers must __________ fieldwork so that it is successful.

Walk on the pavement and use the crossings.

Which familiar features might you see in a local street?

Which type of houses are you most likely to see in the suburbs?

You can switch between an aerial photo and map easily

Why are digital maps useful for a local area?

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

A few houses and shop and place of worship, and a small population.

Many more houses and services and a bigger population.

Lots of buildings, businesses, roads and people!

Which of these features would you expect to find in a village?

The street outside our school

Lesson outcome