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The street outside our school

You can share your ideas about how you could investigate the local area and help plan fieldwork in the street outside your school.

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Year 1

The street outside our school

You can share your ideas about how you could investigate the local area and help plan fieldwork in the street outside your school.

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Key learning points

  1. Geographers sometimes draw maps from memory, e.g. a map showing things in a street outside school.
  2. Geographers investigate places by going outside to gather information in different ways and we call this fieldwork.
  3. 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.

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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6 Questions

Q1.
Why are digital maps useful for a local area?
They are on a computer
Correct answer: You can switch between an aerial photo and map easily
They are colourful
Q2.
Which of these are human features you might see in your local area?
parks
Correct answer: lampposts
Correct answer: bridges
trees
Correct answer: schools
Q3.
Which of these settlements is a village?
Correct answer: 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!
Q4.
What is an example of a green space?
Correct answer: a park
Correct answer: a woodland area
a greenhouse
a tree
Q5.
Which of these features would you expect to find in a village?
Cinema
Hospital
Correct answer: Shop
Correct answer: Place of worship
Q6.
Where is a suburb in a city?
in the middle
Correct answer: on the edge
on the east side
between the supermarket and the hospital
Q3 image 1 © CC-BY_2.0 Graham Robson.

6 Questions

Q1.
Which of these statements correctly describes fieldwork?
Correct answer: investigating an issue
Correct answer: collecting data
playing in a field
Correct answer: working outside
Q2.
Before completing fieldwork you must ...
Correct answer: complete a risk assessment
wash your hands
eat your lunch
know the answer to your investigation
Q3.
Geographers must __________ fieldwork so that it is successful.
Correct answer: plan
hurry
practice
like
Q4.
Match the danger to the solution.
Correct Answer:Bad weather,Make sure everyone has a coat to wear.

Make sure everyone has a coat to wear.

Correct Answer:Busy roads,Walk on the pavement and use the crossings.

Walk on the pavement and use the crossings.

Correct Answer:Rocky paths,Make sure you wear suitable shoes.

Make sure you wear suitable shoes.

Correct Answer:Working away from the school site,Stay with the adult in charge.

Stay with the adult in charge.

Q5.
Which familiar features might you see in a local street?
Correct answer: a post box
a beach
Correct answer: a local shop
Correct answer: a lamppost
Correct answer: a rubbish bin
Q6.
Which type of houses are you most likely to see in the suburbs?
Flats
Correct answer: Semi detached
Terraced
Correct answer: Detached
Cottages