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Year 2

Mapping places to visit in our local area

You can describe and show with maps where you usually go in your local area.

New
New
Year 2

Mapping places to visit in our local area

You can describe and show with maps where you usually go in your local area.

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. The 'local area' can mean different things to different people.
  2. Maps can be used to plot and show your typical range and places visited in a week, and how you feel about them.
  3. A typical local range will probably include your school, your house, the local shops and play areas.

Keywords

  • Area - An area is a particular portion of the Earth's surface and it can be as small as a park or as large as an ocean.

  • Local - Local means an area which the people who live there are familiar with, and encounter in their everyday lives.

  • Range - Range means the distance and extent an individual may travel in their everyday lives.

  • Symbol - A symbol is used to show an important landmark, place, feature or area of a map, diagram or drawing.

Common misconception

Pupils think the local area is either one particular place or has a particular size.

Share examples of where we go, and think about this in the context of everyday lives in urban and rural areas, using different examples.

Sharing personal, everyday experiences is a powerful way to bring learning to life and supports abstract thinking.
Teacher tip

Licence

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Lesson video

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6 Questions

Q1.
Which of these are physical features? Choose two answers.
mosque
town
church
Correct answer: hill
Correct answer: beach
Q2.
What do we use to find out what symbols on a map mean?
Correct Answer: a map key, a key
Q3.
Match the feature with an activity
Correct Answer:shop,shopping

shopping

Correct Answer:play park,play

play

Correct Answer:school,learn

learn

Correct Answer:woods,walk and play

walk and play

Correct Answer:swimming pool,swim

swim

Correct Answer:beach,build sandcastles

build sandcastles

Q4.
What kind of feature is the local take-away shop?
Correct Answer: a human feature
Q5.
Can you order these from smallest to largest?
1 - street
2 - town
3 - country
Q6.
What direction is opposite south?
Correct Answer: north

6 Questions

Q1.
What does local mean?
Correct answer: the area where someone lives that they know well
just my street
my village or town
where the shops are
Q2.
The size of one person's local area can be different to another person's - true or false?
Correct Answer: True
Q3.
Which of these places do you expect most of your classmates to visit in a typical school week? Order from most to least.
1 - school
2 - local park
3 - your friend's house
Q4.
Why might geographers want to know where people go in the local area?
Correct answer: to think about routes, travel and local development
for fun
to plan a holiday in another country
Q5.
Our local area is part of the UK. What are the different countries that make up the UK? Choose four answers.
Correct answer: England
Correct answer: Northern Ireland
Correct answer: Scotland
Correct answer: Wales
Ireland
Q6.
Which countries make up the island of Great Britain?
Correct Answer: England, Scotland and Wales