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

A map is a two-dimensional representation of an area, showing geographical features and where they are in relation to each other.

Describing and locating our favourite places

Geography

Annotating our map of the school grounds

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?

What helps us to describe our special places?

To describe a location, we use these words; north, east, west and...

How can you share information about your favourite place?

What can we add to a photo or map to show how we feel? Unscramble the letters to find the answer.

Which would be most useful for finding your way around a town?

What word do we use to describe places that are important to us? Unscramble the letters to help you.

If we compare two places, what must we think about?

Describing and locating our favourite places

Lesson outcome