Investigating our local area
Describe a range of physical and human features of their locality; use appropriate geographical terms; offer appropriate observations about locations and patterns in the area; identify how people affect the environment and recognise ways people try to manage it for the better; use a range of secondary sources and first-hand enquiry.
Teaching Resources
Land Use ICT Link Units 3C and 4D
Children identify land use (e.g. shops, houses, roads, services, farmland etc.) within a small area of their locality. Findings collated in a database and results presented as bar graphs and pie charts.
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Map Work
Use Multimap find the school using the postcode. Look at aerial photographs and identify roads and amenities with the help of the map overlay tool. Plan routes using the map
www.multimap.com |
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 Jobs Survey ICT Link Units 5D and 6B
Children produce a spreadsheet to collect data on the types of jobs people have or how many people work in various places of employment.
 Local Area Newsletter ICT Link Unit 4A
Children create a newsletter on news in their school or around the local area. Includes interviews, images taken with digital camera and a sports back page. How about including articles on different teachers and local people who help the school ?
Facts and Figues for Kent
The KKC website contains data about Kent covering local social profiles, population estimates, economic statistics, census information - and much more.
www.kent.gov.uk/Community/kent-and-its-people/facts-and-figures
 Find a summary report for your local neighbourhood (neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk)
Local Information Guide ICT Link Unit 4A
Children create an information leaflet about their local area.
Design and Leisure
Lesson plan and resources from UK Department for Transport
Where do people go?
Lesson plan and resources from UK Department for Transport
Safe Cycling
Lesson plan and resources from UK Department for Transport
Settlements
Lesson plan and resources from UK Department for Transport
 Identify the Place
Take photographs using a digital camera around the local area and place them in a file on the computer. Ask the children to open the photographs and identify where they were taken.
ICT in a locality study - Ramsgate
Illustrates the ways in which ICT may enhance Geography topic work at Key Stage 1.
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Magic Map
An online activity where children read co-ordinates to put map symbols in the right place on an OS style map. Six or more levels of difficulty should keep children busy. Maps could be printed off for an independent activity.
www.mape.org.uk
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