Lesson video

Hello, my name is Ms. Chorekdjian, you've made a great choice to learn geography with me today.

I will be guiding you through our lesson.

We're going to have such a great time learning together.

Let's get started.

Welcome to today's lesson from our local area unit: Where Do We Live? This lesson is called Our Homes.

You'll be learning to find your home on an aerial photograph and a large-scale map or plan.

Some of the learning is brand new, but I am here to help you.

This links back to previous learning that you might have done exploring your local area, looking at aerial photographs or maps of your school grounds, and you might have also done a little bit of field work outside as well.

I'm really excited to get started.

I hope you are too.

These are the keywords that we'll be using today.

We'll use these keywords during the lesson and learn more about them later.

But first, let's practise saying these keywords together.

Let's do my turn, your turn.

Aerial photograph, aerial photograph, large-scale plan, large-scale plan, locational language, locational language, label, label, home, home.

Well done.

I want you to be using these key words throughout our lesson as well.

Here are the learning cycles that we'll be working through together today.

First, we'll be identifying special features from above, and later, we'll be locating our homes on a plan and an aerial photograph.

Are you ready to start your learning for today? Fantastic.

Let's begin.

What is an aerial photograph? Now there is a picture of an aerial photograph here to help you.

Remember I said we are going to revisit some of learning that you would've done previously on aerial photographs? Let's see if you can remember what they are.

Pause the video now and talk to your partner.

How did you get on? Did you discuss what an aerial photograph is? An aerial photograph is a picture taken from above.

So, as you can see, this is a picture taken from above.

So we can see the tops of buildings.

It's not a side view, it's not a view from below, it is a view from above.

We use labels to identify key features.

So here you can see I've used a label to identify my school within this aerial photograph.

Aerial photographs are useful because they help us identify the main features of a place.

Labels can give us extra information about a place.

So let's have a look at this aerial photograph of my school again.

So I can use labels to identify where the main features are.

As you can see here, I've got the buildings labelled, the carpark, the wildlife area or the garden, the playground, the seating area, the outdoor gym, and the field or green spaces.

So there I can quite clearly identify from my aerial photograph, all of the main features of a place.

And this example, the place is my school.

So let's have a little check here.

An aerial photograph is A, a picture taken from below, B, a picture taken from the side, or C, a picture taken from above.

Pause the video now and answer this question.

How did you get on? Did you answer C? That's correct.

Well done.

An aerial photograph is a picture taken from above.

You can give yourselves a thumbs up.

Well done.

Let's carry on with our learning.

A large-scale plan or map shows an area from above and can help you locate details like streets and buildings.

So you can see there again, I've got another label that says my school, so I can clearly identify it on this large-scale map.

We can use aerial photographs and large-scale plans to locate special places like our school and our homes.

So we should be able to clearly identify my school because we've seen that from the previous slide.

There it is, and there's the label to show you where it is.

And then I know that my home is not too far away from school.

It's on the other side of the allotments, and there it is.

It's just next to my local park.

So there's my home, and I've used this large-scale plan to locate both of those special places.

It's now time for a true or false check.

So this means you've got to read this statement carefully and decide whether or not it's true or false.

Aerial photographs and large-scale plans help us to locate places and buildings special to us.

Is that true or false? Pause the video now and answer this check.

Great.

How did you get on? Did you answer true? That's correct.

Well done.

It is true.

Now let's think about justifying our answer and thinking about why it's true.

So is it true because we can see details like streets and houses, or is true because we can see large areas? Pause the video now and justify your answer.

How did you get on this time? Did you say A, because we can see details like streets and houses? That's correct.

That's the reason why we use aerial photographs and large-scale plans to help us identify and locate our special places.

Good job, everyone.

You can give yourselves another thumbs up.

Locational language describes the location of something in relation to something else.

Here's a few examples of locational language.

Next to.

So you could say that in your classroom, the board is next to the door.

In between.

So again, we could say that the table is in between your chair and the board.

Far away.

You could say that the door is far away from the chair at the back.

Above.

So again, if you're looking for something in your classroom, you could say that the bookshelf is above the reading area.

And finally, near.

So you could say that the teacher's computer is near to the board.

Those are all examples of locational language that we can use to describe the location of something in relation to something else.

Now I'm sure you know lots more other examples of locational language, but these are the examples that I've chosen to talk about today.

Locational language also describes a location of a place in relation to another place.

So for here, we could use words like left, straight ahead, or right, so you could say, again talking about your school, that the playground is straight ahead, or you could say that the playground is to the left of the main building, or you could say the playground is to the right of the reception building.

So this is the language that we will use to describe places in relation to other places.

It is time for another check here.

So examples of locational language are A, above, B, left, C, floor, or D, in between.

And you can choose three answers from here.

Pause the video now and answer this check.

How did you get on? Did you answer A, above, B, left, and D, in between? That's correct.

Those three are all examples of locational language because they describe where something is in relation to something else.

Good job.

You can give yourselves another thumbs up.

So let's carry on with our learning for today.

You can use locational language to describe where special places are.

So again, we've got our aerial photograph of my school, and I've labelled the outdoor gym, so we can see that using this aerial photograph of the school, the gym is in between the green space and the playground.

So there's my green space and there's the playground, and the outdoor gym is in between both of those areas.

So that's helped me locate my special place, which is the outdoor gym.

That's one of my favourite places in school, and I've helped maybe someone else try and locate that place by describing it in relation to places that they might already know, like the green space or the playground.

Let's look at another example here of describing where our special places are using locational language.

The carpark is to the right of the main building.

So there's my car park, and there's the main building, and that's a really good sentence to help visitors who've just arrived at our school locate the main building from the car park.

Let's check out another example.

So we've got the playground here and the wildlife area.

I wonder if you can think of a sentence that you can use to describe either the playground or the wildlife area before I tell you my example.

See if you can have a go at that.

Pause the video now.

How did you get on? My example that I was going to tell you about was the wildlife garden is next to the playground.

You could have said the playground is next to the wildlife garden, or you could have also said that the playground or the wildlife garden is near to the playground or the wildlife garden.

So those are the examples of locational language you can use here for these two special places.

So let's have a check.

Here's our aerial photograph again, with all of my special places located on it.

What I would like you to do is to describe the location of my favourite place.

Do you remember I said my favourite place was the outdoor gym? If I'm trying to explain it so that my friends can find it, how can I describe its location in relation to other places that they might know about? Pause the video and complete this check.

How did you get on? Did you say the outdoor gym is in between the green spaces and the wildlife area? You could have said that.

You could have also said the outdoor gym is to the right of the green spaces.

Or you could have said the outdoor gym is next to the playground.

All of these three examples describe exactly where the outdoor gym is in relation to other places.

You could have had some other examples as well.

Well done, everybody.

Thumbs up for that.

Let's carry on with our learning.

It's now time for your first task.

For task A, I would like you to use locational language to describe the special features around school.

You can write three sentences to complete this task.

What I would like you to try and do, though, is to use different examples of locational language so to not always say the same one, for example, next to, next to, next to.

I'd like you to try and use three different ones if you can.

So, for example, next to, in between, near, far away, or you can even use left, right, or straight ahead.

Pause the video now and complete task A.

Well, geographers, how did you get on with your first task? Here's an example of some sentences that I wrote.

You could have written any of these, or you could have written some more.

You could have said the carpark is to the right of the main building.

The wildlife garden is next to the playground.

The outdoor gym is to the right of the green spaces.

The outdoor gym is next to the playground.

The buildings are to the right of the field.

Did you say any others? You could have said sentences like the outdoor gym is between the green spaces and the playground.

The playground is in between the outdoor gym and the wildlife area.

The field is to the left of the green spaces.

The car park is far away from the green space.

The outdoor gym is near the playground.

So I'm sure you thought of lots of different sentences as a class using locational language to describe all of those special features from above.

Well done, everybody.

You can give yourselves another thumbs up.

Let's continue with our learning for today.

So now, we're going to look at locating our homes on a plan and aerial photograph.

What does your home look like from above? Most houses look very different from each other.

That's because they might have different-shaped roofs, so it could have a flat roof that looks like this or it has a pitched roof which looks like this, and that means that it's got a point at the top.

It might even have a special thatched roof like many cottages in some villages have.

Will there be spaces between the building of your house and your neighbours, and we'll learn special names for those types of buildings later.

And will your house have a front or a back garden? Your house might also have a car park at the front.

You might have a gate or a fence around your home.

Those are all things that make your home unique and help you to recognise it from above.

Here's my home from above.

So you can see there that I've used a label to say my home, and I've put a little green box around it.

My home is terraced.

It has a pitched roof, so you can see that it's got a roof that looks like this.

There's a point at the top.

It has a driveway at the front.

So you can see there's some cars parked in front of my house, and it has a garden at the back.

So my garden you can recognise because it has a fence around it and it's in the shape of a square, and it's two stories tall.

That means that my house has got two floors.

It's got an upstairs, and it has a downstairs.

We are going to have a little check here.

I'm going to give you a sentence using locational language that describes my home, and then I'm going to ask you to do something.

My home is near to the park.

When I leave my front door, I see the park on the right.

So I've used two examples of locational language there.

I've used is near to and I've used the word right to describe where my house is in relation to another place, which is my local park.

What other locational language can you use to describe the features that are close to my home? Have a good look at that aerial photograph and see what sentences you can come up with.

You can do this with your partner or a think-pair-share activity.

Pause the video now and complete this check.

How did you get on? What sentences did you come up with? These are some sentences you could have come up with.

My home is in between the road and the back gardens.

My home is next to two other homes.

My home is near the allotments.

You could have come up with more sentences, and I'm sure you have done, but these are the three that I've chosen to share.

Well done for using locational language to describe features close to my home.

Remember this large-scale plan from earlier? What can we use it to locate? And in fact, if you remember, we have used it to locate two places already, and I wonder if we can locate a third one.

Pause the video now and see if you can work out what we can locate from this large-scale plan.

How did you get on? Did you locate my house? Remember, I showed you where my home was in relation to my school, which is there? And then, when we were looking at my house, we talked about it in relation to another place, which was my local park.

So we've used this large-scale plan to locate three special places that are close to me, my home, my school, and my local park.

Good job.

There are lots of different types of buildings in our local area.

Today we'll be learning about different types of homes.

Remember we talked about that slightly a little bit earlier when I was describing my home? Can you name any types of homes? Think about homes that might be attached to other homes.

Homes that might have lots of different stories, so lots of floors in their house, or homes that might only have one floor in their house.

See if you can remember any types of homes, and then we'll talk about it afterwards.

Pause the video now.

How did you get on? Did you remember and name any types of home? Let's talk about the different types of homes that you could have remembered and maybe learn about some that you're not aware of.

In our local area, you may see homes that are detached, semi-detached, terraced, bungalows, flats, cottages, or caravans.

Did you say any of these words? Did you remember any of these types of homes? Good job if you did.

Thumbs up.

We are going to learn about them more in detail right now.

This is what a detached house looks like.

That means it's a home that doesn't have any other homes attached to it.

It's got neighbours on the left and the right, but their homes are separate to a detached home.

They could also be detached homes.

So it means that your house is not attached to anyone else's house.

Semi-detached means that your house is attached to another house only on one side.

A terraced house, now remember I used that word to describe my home, and that means that you have another home on your left and another home on your right.

So you're attached to two other people's homes.

A bungalow.

A bungalow is a home that usually only has one floor.

It might have an attic that somebody could have converted to another floor, but generally it only has one floor, and bungalows are almost always detached.

That means that they're not attached to any other homes.

You could have some bungalows that are semi-detached, but generally, they're detached with only one floor.

Flats mean that there is one building, and inside that one building there's lots of different homes.

So if you live in a flat, you might have a neighbour that is on your left and on your right, and you might have a neighbour that's above you or below you.

There are multiple floors in flats, so you could have flats that are two stories tall, three stories tall, four stories tall, six stories tall, or even taller than that.

Then we've got a cottage.

Cottages are usually in villages, but there are some cottages that are in cities and towns as well, and they have a thatched roof.

A thatched roof means that it has a roof that's made outta straw, and you can see that in that image there.

Then we've got a caravan.

A caravan is the only type of home that moves locations.

So because it's on wheels, you can attach it to a van or a car, and you can move it from place to place.

Some caravans have an upstairs and a downstairs, believe it or not, and some of them have toilets as well.

So those are all the different types of homes.

All of those homes could have some green spaces close to them or individual gardens at the front or backs of their homes.

Some people have a shared garden.

So, for example, if you live in a flat, you can have a shared green space that belongs to anyone that lives in your flat.

What might some similarities or differences be between these buildings? Have a think about what we've talked about so far and discuss it with your partner.

What are the similarities and differences between these buildings? Pause the video now and answer that question.

Great.

How did you get on? Did you talk about similarities being that some homes are attached to others, and a difference could be that some homes are not attached to others? Did you talk about how many stories the house or homes have? How many different neighbours they might have above them, or below them, or next to them? Did you talk about the green spaces that are available and maybe the materials that those homes are made out of? So we talked about straw being used for a thatched roof.

Did you talk about some homes moving and others staying in one place? So, for example, the caravan.

Good job.

I'm sure you talked about other similarities and differences as well.

Fantastic.

I'll give you another thumbs up.

So now that we've talked about these different types of homes, let's go back to this question.

I think some of you might not have been too sure of the home that you live in, but now that we've talked about types of homes, I'm sure you are really confident to answer this question.

So which type of home do you live in? Pause the video now and answer this question.

Great.

I'm sure that you all said that really quickly and really confidently.

It's now time to explain how you know that you live in a certain type of home.

Remember when I was talking about my home and I said it was a terraced home? I talked about having a neighbour that was to the left of me and to the right of me, so I know that my home is terraced because it is attached to two other homes on either side.

So pause the video now and explain how you know which type of home you live in.

Pause the video now.

Fantastic.

I'm sure you are all able to explain how you know which type of home you live in.

It is now time for a check.

Choose three from the list below.

Examples of types of home include A, coach, B, cottage, C, semi-detached, or D, bungalow.

Pause the video now and choose three answers from that list.

How did you get on? Did you say B, cottage, C, semi-detached, or D, bungalow? Good job.

Those are all correct.

Give yourselves a thumbs up.

It's now time for task B.

What I would like you to do is locate your home and your school on an aerial photograph or large-scale plan of your local area, similar to what I did when I was talking to you about it earlier in the lesson.

Then I'd like you to write a sentence to describe the type of home that you live in and describe it using locational language.

Pause the video now and complete task B.

How did you get on with that task? Here's an example of what I did.

So I located my school, my home, and my local park on a large-scale plan of my local area.

And then we've got some possible examples of answers that you could give to describe the type of home that you live in.

So you could say, "I live in a terraced house.

It has a pitched roof, my home has a park to the left of it, and is next to neighbours on both sides." Or you could have said, "My home is detached and is in between the park and my school." Well done for completing task B.

I'm sure you were able to identify special features from above and locate your home on a map or aerial photograph, and you have definitely been able to use locational language to explain those places in relation to other places.

Fantastic.

We've now come to the end of our lesson.

Let's go through a summary of all of the learning that we've completed together today.

An aerial photograph is a picture taken from above.

We use labels to identify key features and add more detail.

Locational language describes the location of something in relation to other places.

We can use aerial photographs and large-scale plans to locate special places like our school and homes.

Types of homes include detached, semi-detached, terraced, bungalows, flats, cottages, and caravans.

You've been fantastic today.

Well done for all of your learning.

You can give yourselves one last thumbs up.

Well done for joining me today and for sharing your learning with me.

I'll see you soon next time for more geography lessons.

Goodbye.