The street outside our school
Lesson details
Learning outcome
You can share your ideas about how you could investigate the local area and help plan fieldwork in the street outside your school.
Key learning points
- Geographers sometimes draw maps from memory, e.g. a map showing things in a street outside school.
- Geographers investigate places by going outside to gather information in different ways and we call this fieldwork.
- Risk assessment means thinking about possible dangers and how you can keep yourself safe.
Keywords
Fieldwork - Fieldwork is investigating the outdoors using geographical tools and thinking to gather information or data.
Familiar street features - Familiar street features are those items that you usually find near to roads and pavements.
Street - A street is a road, usually with houses or buildings on both sides.
Danger - A danger is a cause of something bad happening.
Common misconception
All streets outside schools across the country have all of these features and look the same.
The street outside your school is unique to your school. There might be all, some or none of these features. There could be features outside your school that are not mentioned here.
Teacher tip
Share a couple of images of the street outside your school to help stimulate memory.
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Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Why are digital maps useful for a local area?
Q2.Which of these are human features you might see in your local area?
Q3.Which of these settlements is a village?
Q4.What is an example of a green space?
Q5.Which of these features would you expect to find in a village?
Q6.Where is a suburb in a city?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of these statements correctly describes fieldwork?
Q2.Before completing fieldwork you must ...
Q3.Geographers must __________ fieldwork so that it is successful.
Q4.Match the danger to the solution.
Q5.Which familiar features might you see in a local street?
Q6.Which type of houses are you most likely to see in the suburbs?
To help you plan your 1 geography lesson on: The street outside our school, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
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