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Geography and numbers
Teaching Activities
KS1:
 Floor Turtle ICT Link Unit 2D
Work out the instructions for a floor turtle to navigate a maze. Use vocabulary such as left, right, forwards, backwards, along, clockwise, anticlockwise and right angles.
(See Floor Turtles Activities page)
 People Count ICT Link Unit 1E
Ask the children to undertake a pedestrian traffic count in a corridor at different times during the school day. Enter the data in a simple graphing program and produce a pictogram or simple bar graph to represent the data. Discuss and interpret findings.
KS2:
 Multimedia Presentation ICT Link Unit 4A
Children word process/ create poster/ create multimedia presentation about how they spend their time .
Journey to School ICT Link
Ask the children to carry out a survey of the journey to school, looking at where people in the school live, how they travel to school, how long their journey takes etc. Enter the information gathered into a database or spreadsheet and produce graphs to represent findings. Sort the data to answer simple questions. (See Traffic Unit)
Population Data ICT Link Unit 3C, 4D and 5D
Ask the children to study population data for two contrasting settlements. They could enter the data into a database and sort it to help them produce a frequency table. This information could be entered into a spreadsheet and bar charts and pie charts produced to illustrate proportions of population within certain age groups.
 Find a summary report for your local neighbourhood (neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk)
World Population
What is the worlds total population? How and why is it changing? What will it be in fifty years time? Using an Internet population clock to record data, then graph drawing and investigation using another website. Links with Secondary Geography Unit 3 -People everywhere and Primary Unit 25 Geography and numbers.
Lesson plan and resources
Investigate weather around the World ICT Link 5B Analysing databases
Children compile a set of statistical data about a number of major world cities. They enter their data into a class database.
The Word Doc below contains the teaching activities for three lessons:
 World Weather investigation
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