An address is the name of a place with a postcode and other information such as street and town names to help you locate where it is.

Public transport is the shared use of vehicles such as trains, buses, trams and planes on routes where people pay fares.

A map key is a box of information on a map that tells you what the lines and symbols on the map mean.

A post code is a group of letters and numbers that identify the location of different addresses.

Locating our place with an address and directions

Geography

Key features of our local area

Mapping places to visit in our local area

The weather where I live and in the UK

Local and national landmarks

Fieldwork: our locality

This unit is a foundation for the more abstract contrasting locality units, enabling pupils to build on their understanding of the uniqueness of place through other cultural lenses and apply the learnt process of enquiry when finding out about places and people.

This builds on the Local to global unit which explored the local area and what made places special to enable pupils to be selective and communicate the most essential elements of their place in the form of a local area guide.

This unit explores what makes the local area special by identifying key features, landmarks and places of interest. Pupils use maps, address and direction language, local climate knowledge and fieldwork to describe and represent their locality.

Local area: why is (our place) special?

A drawing of an area from a bird's eye view

A natural landmark that has grown and hasn't been planned by people

A feature that has been built or made by people

What does 'human feature' mean? Choose one answer.

A landmark that has grown or developed and hasn't been planned by people

What does an address usually have? Choose three answers.

Is this a picture of a human feature or a natural feature?

Tells you what different colours on the map mean

What does a map key do? Choose three answers.

A map is a drawing showing where different features are located.

A map is a photograph taken by a satellite.

A map showing the street where your school is

How would you order these maps so you could 'zoom in' from seeing a large area of land, to the small area where your school is?

Which of these features might you find in a town or city? Choose two answers.

The place where you go to send letters and parcels.

There are fields here where crops grow and animals graze.

A town with a harbour where ships load and unload goods. 

A building that is a place of prayer for Muslims.

What should you do before leaving your house on a rainy day?

A narrow body of water that flows over the land in a channel

A small area of still, fresh water that does not flow

Starter Quiz

Which of these features might you find in a town or city? Choose two answers.