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Village Settlers
Identify early settlement patterns and the links between older established settlements and the present landscape; draw fairly logically constructed maps of their own; understand that places are connected to one another.
Teaching Resources
This is a 'short' unit which combines work on Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings in Britain (Units 6A -C in the history scheme of work) with geographical work on the development of settlements.  Adapted Scheme of Work -
 Promethean Resource - (National Whiteboard Network)
 Powerpoint Resource - (National Whiteboard Network)
Powerpoint Resource - (Greenwich ICT)
 PDF Where did early settlers choose to settle? (LCP)
 Create a village settlement ICT Link
Children use a painting/drawing program to design a village settlement and/or use a object based program e.g. Textease CT DRaw, to devise their own village settlement using names and OS map symbols to represent features. They could include some specified features e.g. an area of high ground, village pond, small housing estate.
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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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 Interactive Aerial Photographs
Three activities where children can answer questions about different types of settlement.
www.sln.org.uk
Anglo Saxon place names
A lesson plan and differentiated activities to teach about the origin and meaning of place names.
Teacher Resource Exchange
 Viking Place Names - Its all in the name
This is a lesson teaches children how to recognize and analyze Viking place names. It enables them to “discover” for themselves areas where Viking settlements were most prolific and the extent of the Danelaw by investigating maps.
Teacher Resource Exchange
 The origins of Kent Place names
What's in a place name?
Place names fall basically into three types - topographical (describing
landscape features), habitative (defining a settlement), or folk (referring to a
people or tribe).
www.countrylovers.co.uk
 Search and download images of Domesday online.
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Village Settlers - Channel 4
This 4learning site offers information for the children, worksheets for the teacher to download, an image bank for each of the units, weblinks connected to the unit visited and onscreen activities to be done at home, by the children, to support the learning in school. |
Settlements
Lesson plan and resources from UK Department for Transport
 Find a summary report for your local neighbourhood (neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk)
Investigate maps of villages.
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