Villages, towns and cities in the UK
You can locate and identify villages, towns and cities in atlases and on OS maps.
Villages, towns and cities in the UK
You can locate and identify villages, towns and cities in atlases and on OS maps.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Villages, towns and cities have different features.
- Atlas maps of the UK often use different symbols or text size to indicate the size of a settlement.
- Atlas maps can be used to investigate the location and distribution of the UK’s significant cities.
- Any settlement can be located on an OS map, and its features investigated using the key.
Keywords
Atlas map - Atlas maps show the location of places and features at global or national scale.
Symbol - A symbol is used to show an important landmark, place, feature or area of a map, diagram or drawing.
Location - A location is the particular position of something on Earth.
Distribution - Distribution is how something is spread out across a geographic area.
Common misconception
Pupils often read four figure grid references the wrong way round.
Remind pupils that they find the easting first by reading along the corridor, then read the northing by going up the stairs.
Equipment
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
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