A special place is a place where someone has good feelings when they are there.

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

Similarities are the things that are the same when compared with others.

Differences are the things that are not the same when compared with others.

Annotating our map of the school grounds

Geography

Describing and locating our favourite places

The seven wonders of the natural world

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?

Which of these are emotions that you might feel about a special place?

What can geographers use to investigate special places in our local area?

What can we include in photos to show our feelings about the location?

Both place A and and B have beautiful flowers

Are these statements describing similarities or differences between place A and place B?

Which of these statements describe an opinion?

Which of these are physical features and which are human features?

Which of these words could describe a special place?

How do geographers find information about a place?

Unscramble the letters to find the missing word. There are human and natural __________ of the world.

Geographers use __________ to describe the location of a place.

Annotating our map of the school grounds

Lesson outcome