The school grounds are all the outside spaces at a school.

An aerial photograph is a picture of an object or place that has been taken from above.

Locating places in our school grounds

Geography

This unit provides a foundation for 'Local to global: Identifying special places' and subsequent fieldwork investigations in 'Local area: how is our place special?' and a contrasting non-European locality in 'Contrasting locality: What is it like to live in (location) Jamaica/ Tanzania?'.

This unit builds on explorations of the local area in EYFS, and on 'Local area: Where do we live?' and 'Local area: Where do we go to school?'. It extends work on the school and immediate locality through investigating a specific land use - play areas. It develops basic geographical vocabulary and simple mapwork and fieldwork skills.

Local area: how do we read maps and plan routes?

A map is a two-dimensional representation of an area, showing geographical features and where they are in relation to each other.

A visitor is someone who goes to a place for a while but does not stay there permanently.

A route shows the starting point and end point of a journey, sometimes with stops in between.

Mapping our school grounds

A play area is a space that contains equipment and features that children can use when playing.

Risk means the possibility that something bad or unpleasant, such as an injury, might happen.

Planning a route

Fieldwork is investigating the outdoors using geographical tools and thinking to gather information or data.

A journey stick is a way to remember a route by collecting items on the route and fixing them to a stick.

Play equipment are structures that children use for play such as swings, slides, climbing frames and sand boxes.

An opinion is a thought, feeling or belief held by a person or group of people.

Fieldwork: Observing geographical features on our route

A symbol is used to show an important landmark, place, feature or area of a map, diagram or drawing

A place is a location, an area or a building.

Making a map of our route

A model is a smaller representation of something that shows what it looks like or how it works.

An improvement is a change that makes something better.

To develop is to change something from how it has been, usually to make it better.

Local area: how do we read maps and plan routes?

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