Lesson video

Hello.

My name is Ms. Chorekdjian.

I'm so excited to be learning with you today.

I will be guiding you through our lesson.

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

Let's start our learning.

Welcome to today's lesson from our unit on our local area, how do we read maps and plan routes? This lesson is called Locating places in our school grounds.

You'll be learning to talk about your favourite places to play in the school grounds and locate them on an aerial photograph.

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

This links back to previous learning you might have done exploring your school grounds and your local area and looking at aerial photographs and large scale maps or plans of your school grounds or your local area.

You might also have done a little bit of fieldwork, and you might have also drawn some maps or made some models as well.

I'm really excited to get started.

I hope you are too.

These are the key words that we'll be using today, and we will learn more about them later.

But first, let's practise saying them together.

Let's do my turn, your turn.

School grounds.

School grounds.

Aerial photograph.

Aerial photograph.

Good job.

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

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

First, we'll be looking at places to play around school, and then we'll be locating our favourite places to play.

Are you ready to start our learning? Fantastic, let's begin.

All schools have places for pupils to play.

Places to play in school are really important because you need to have breaks between your learning and you also still need to develop your bodies physically as well.

Think about different places to play in our school grounds.

What do they look like? Pause the video now and tell your.

Great, how did you get on? Did you tell them what your favourite play areas look like in school? Let's think about some more questions about our play areas.

What are their features and what do they include? So if you think about your key stage one playground, you might have a climbing frame that includes a pole and a slide on one side.

You might have a trim trail or monkey bars for you to climb across.

You might have lots of other play areas as well.

Pause the video now and think about answering those questions about your play area.

Good job, I'm sure you're all really excited to talk about all the different places to play in your school grounds.

Places to play in our school grounds might include some from this list.

Your playground, so I talked about a climbing frame there with a slide.

You might have a trim trail.

That would support you with your balance and your coordination and also your body strength.

You might have an outdoor gym as well.

That'll be really useful to help keep you healthy and work different parts of your body and strengthen your muscles.

You might also have a multi-use games area.

So this is where you can develop your team sports, sports like football or basketball.

You might also have a slide.

Again, slides are really fun, and I love going down them.

And you might also have a field somewhere where you can play athletic games, like running, sprinting, maybe jumping over some hurdles as well.

So these are all the places to play in our school grounds.

Did you talk about some of these places? Did you forget to talk about some of these places? Pause the video now and see if you can add any more detail to your discussion about play areas around your school and also their features and what they include.

Great, I'm sure you've been able to build on discussions that you started today.

Good job, everyone.

I'm going to give you a thumbs up.

It's now time for a check.

Let's tick all of the places that there are to play around the school grounds.

You can choose from a, dining hall, b, playground, c, field, or d, medical room.

Pause the video now and complete that check.

Good job.

How did you get on, geographers? Did you answer b, playground, and C, field? Fantastic, those are two areas that you can play around your school grounds.

Good job, everybody.

Schools have different places to play.

This is for many reasons, including supporting your body's physical development.

So we talked earlier about your strength, your balance, and your coordination.

So as your bodies are still developing, it's really important that you get to use those muscles and strengthen your body.

Your imagination, your creativity, and to satisfy curiosity.

So that means that you can use play areas to play imaginary games or you can role play with your friends.

You can imagine maybe that you're on a boat or you are on a desert island.

And you can engage in lots of creative play so that you can build stories in your mind around your play areas.

And that's really good because that helps your thinking and it helps you be more creative.

And that will also help you when you're reading stories and when you're writing as well.

Play areas also support you to take controlled risks.

That means climbing up something that's really high.

You might be scared of heights, but in this safe environment, it helps you take that risk.

And it might help you actually overcome your fear of heights.

Another thing you could do is if there's a pole, you could slide down it and you can get that adrenaline rush and feel like you've taken a controlled risk and you've been safe.

Play areas also help you develop your ability to work as a team and to problem solve.

So we talked about the MUGA, the multi-use games area.

That will help you develop team sports and work as a team with your friends.

You might be playing basketball or football.

You might also have to problem solve and work out the best route to get to the top of the climbing frame and how to come down safely.

Those skills are all really useful in your day-to-day life as well.

And play areas also help you to develop and lead a healthy life.

You might love being adventurous and exercising as well.

So all of these reasons are why schools have places to play.

It's also really nice to be outside and to be in the outdoors to get fresh air and to feel connected to nature as well.

Every pupil has an opinion on where their favourite place to play around their school grounds is.

You might have talked about an opinion previously.

What do you think the word opinion means? Pause the video and talk to your partner.

How did you get on? Did you say that an opinion is what someone thinks or believes? Well done if you got that right.

You can give yourselves another thumbs up.

These pupils have an opinion on their favourite places to play around their school grounds.

Let's have a look at what they think or believe is their favourite place.

My favourite place to play is the outdoor gym because it keeps me fit and healthy.

So remember, we were talking about one of the benefits of those play areas was being fit and enjoying a healthy life.

So this is why this pupil has selected the outdoor gym as his favourite place to play.

This pupil has said, I like playing in the MUGA because I can play basketball with my friends.

So this pupil has enjoyed playing in the MUGA because they've developed their ability to work in a team and to play team sports.

Your opinion might be the same as these pupils or it might be different.

Pause the video now and share your opinion of your favourite place to play with your partner.

I'm sure you and your partner had a good conversation there about your favourite places to play around your school.

Did you and your partner have the same opinion or did you have a different opinion? It's really important that we respect all of our classmates might have different opinions on where their favourite place to play is.

And that's okay.

No one is right or wrong.

You're all individual pupils, and you have different interests and different thoughts and beliefs.

It's okay to have different opinions.

It doesn't mean that one person is right and one person is wrong.

It just means we've got different interests and we like different things.

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

So you've got to think really carefully about whether this statement is true or false.

Pupils have different opinions on their favourite place to play.

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

How did you get on? Did you say true? That is correct.

Pupils do have different opinions on their favourite places to play.

Now let's think about justifying why that statement is correct.

Is it correct because everyone has different thoughts and beliefs, or b, everyone has the same thoughts or beliefs.

Pause the video now and justify your answer.

How did you get on? Did you say a, everyone has different thoughts and beliefs? That's correct.

So different people have different opinions, and that means they think differently and they might have different beliefs.

And we've got to remember that having different opinions is okay.

It doesn't mean that somebody is right or somebody is wrong.

Well done for completing that check.

I'm going to give you another thumbs up.

Good job, everybody.

Now let's think back to where your favourite place to play is.

We've talked about the features that those places might have.

We've talked about benefits that those places might have.

And we've also talked about an opinion expressing why you like that place and why that place is your favourite.

Thinking about those three things that we've talked about, I would now like you to have a discussion as a think pair and share activity.

So talk about your favourite place to play.

Why is that place to play helpful to you? Why is it beneficial to you? And what is your opinion of that place to play? So for example, I could say that I enjoy playing on the trim trail.

It's really good for my physical development, my balance, and my coordination.

And I like it because it's right next to the nature area.

So it means that I'm very close to nature and I can breathe healthy air.

So I'd like you to have that discussion as a think pair and share activity and share your opinions on your beliefs on your favourite place to play.

You can pause the video now.

Great job, everyone.

I'm sure you had a really deep and rich discussion there about your favourite places to play around your school grounds.

It's now time for your first task.

What I would like you to do is write or draw where your favourite place to play around our school grounds is.

Then I would like you to explain why that is.

Here's a sentence starter to help you.

You can say, my favourite place to play around our school grounds is, because.

Pause the video now and complete Task A.

Well, geographers, how did you get on with Task A? Here's my example of Task A.

So I've said my favourite place to play around our school grounds is the outdoor gym because it keeps me fit and healthy.

And then I've drawn a picture there of my outdoor gym as well.

I'm sure you did a great job with that first task.

Well done, everybody.

I'm going to give you another thumbs up.

Let's now continue with our learning.

We're going to locate our favourite places to play around our school grounds.

Let's look at this picture here.

It's an aerial photograph.

An aerial photograph is a picture that's taken from above.

So we can see the tops of buildings and we can see areas in more detail because we can see the surrounding areas as well.

They help us identify the main features of a place.

Here are the main features of our school grounds.

So we're going to be locating them on our aerial photograph.

There are the main buildings of my school.

Here's the car park.

I've got the wildlife area, or the garden, the playground, the seating area, the outdoor gym, and then the field, or the green spaces.

So I've used this aerial photograph to help me locate the main features of my school grounds.

Aerial photographs are useful when locating areas of special interest, like our favourite places to play around our school grounds.

So now let's locate our favourite places to play around our school grounds.

There's the playground, the MUGA, the multi-use games area, the outdoor gym, the trim trail, and the slide, and the field.

And those are all our favourite places to play around our school grounds.

It's now time for another check here.

An aerial photograph is.

Which answer completes that statement so that it's true? Is it a, a picture taken from below, b, a picture taken from the side, or c, a picture taken from above? So what is an aerial photograph? Pause the video now and complete that check.

How did you get on? Did you answer c, an aerial photograph is a picture taken from above? That's correct, well done.

I tried to trick you there, but I'm sure you all got the right answer.

Give yourselves another thumbs up.

Well done.

Let's take a closer look at our favourite places to play in our school grounds from an aerial photograph.

Can you see that blue area around the slide? We can locate that blue area on the aerial photograph.

This is the climbing frame and the slide in the key stage one playground.

Let's see what other areas we can locate.

Here, we've got two places that we're locating.

We can locate the outdoor gym and the MUGA.

And again, we can match the colours that we see to the aerial photograph.

We can see that black strip that's right next to the MUGA is where the outdoor gym is.

And we know that the outdoor gym is next to the MUGA, so we can find that quite clearly on our aerial photograph.

Let's have another look at one of our favourite places to play.

What's this area? I wonder if you can remember where that is on my aerial photograph.

I did show you earlier a label of where that place might be.

Pause the video now and see if you can name this favourite place to play and locate it on the aerial photograph.

Pause the video now.

Well done, everyone.

Did you locate it there? It's the trim trail and the field.

And that green patch is an outdoor area that we can do gymnastics on when it's nice and sunny.

Can you see how I've matched the location of those features on the aerial photograph based on what I could see? Good job, everyone.

Geographers investigate places by going outside to collect information.

This is called fieldwork.

You might have already done some fieldwork exploring your school grounds.

That means that you already know that you don't have to be in a field to be doing fieldwork.

It can be completed in many different ways.

Let's have another check here.

So what is fieldwork? Is it a, going outside to collect flowers, b, going outside to collect information, or c, going outside to go for a run? Pause the video now and complete that check.

Good job, everyone.

How did you get on? Did you say going outside to collect information? That's correct, and that's what fieldwork is.

It's going outside to collect information on many different things.

Remember, you don't have to be in a field to be doing fieldwork.

As long as you are outside and you're collecting information to help you answer a question, you're doing fieldwork.

You might have already done some fieldwork exploring your school grounds or maybe you might have done some fieldwork exploring your local area.

It's now time for another check.

This is a true or false check, so it means that you've got to think really carefully about whether or not this statement is true.

There is only one type of fieldwork.

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

Great, how did you get on? Did you say false? That's correct.

There's lots of different types of fieldwork.

Let's think about justifying why that answer is false.

Is it false because a, fieldwork can be completed in many different ways, or b, going for a walk outside is the only type of fieldwork? Pause the video now and justify the answer to that question.

How did you get on? Did you say fieldwork can be completed in many different ways? That's true.

There is more than one type of fieldwork, and it can be completed in many different ways.

Well done, everyone.

You can give yourselves another thumbs up.

You're working through this lesson really well.

I'm so proud of all the learning that you're doing.

Today, we're going to be completing fieldwork by locating our favourite places to play in our school grounds.

So again, this is another type of fieldwork.

You might have done this before or this might be new to you.

Let's remember how we keep ourselves safe during fieldwork.

We keep ourselves safe when completing fieldwork by following these tips.

I'm sure you know them all, but it's really important that we go through them again just before you're about to go outside.

You've got to use any equipment correctly.

So that means only using the equipment for what it's supposed to be used for and not using it for anything else.

You've got to stay with your group.

It's really important that you stay close to your adults or your teacher.

That means that they can keep you safe so you don't get lost.

You've got to look out for low branches so that they don't poke you or hurt you.

And you've got to be really careful not to trip on tree roots.

Sometimes we get really excited when we're completing fieldwork, and we forget to look down to see if there's any hazards in the way.

It's really important so that you don't fall over and hurt yourselves.

We don't walk into any ponds or rivers, and that's because we don't know how deep they are.

And you might hurt yourself if you don't know how deep something is.

And don't pick or eat anything growing on trees.

They might look like berries, but they could be poisonous.

And if you eat them, they might make you sick or give you a bellyache.

So it's really important that we follow these tips to keep ourselves safe.

Let's have another check here.

It's really important that we're all clear on how to keep ourselves safe when we're completing fieldwork.

And that means we can collect our information safely and we can enjoy it as well.

When completing fieldwork, you should a, not wander off from your teacher, b, be careful of hanging branches or tree roots, c, run into a pond or a river, or d, not pick any fruit or berries off trees.

You can choose three answers here.

Pause the video and complete this check.

How did you get on? Did you say not wander off from your teacher? That's correct.

Be careful of hanging branches or tree roots and not pick any fruits or berries off the tree.

Well done, those are all ways in which you can keep yourself safe when doing fieldwork.

When completing fieldwork, geographers use images, words, drawings, and maps to help them record information so they can, for example, explain why they like a place and how they use it.

And that's what we're going to do today.

We're going to be collecting all of that information about our favourite places to play so that we can share information on why we like it and how we use it.

All of this helps them remember it.

So it's now time for Task B.

What I would like you to do is once you've gone outside and completed your fieldwork and investigated your special places to play, I would like you to use an aerial photograph to locate them and label them on our school grounds.

Then I would like you to choose your favourite place to play and show the area using photographs that you've taken when you've gone outside to investigate the area.

Next, I'd like you to draw an image of it and, finally, explain why this place is your favourite.

Pause the video now and go outside and complete your fieldwork.

Great, how did you get on there? I gave you lots of things to do.

I asked you to go outside and complete fieldwork.

I asked you to locate all of the places to play on an aerial photograph.

And then I asked you to choose your favourite one.

And I asked you to share information about it using photographs, and images, and labels.

So let's have a look at how you got on.

So here are five places to play around my school grounds.

You can see that I've located the playground, the slide, the field, the multi-use games area, and the outdoor gym.

So here is my favourite place to play.

When I was completing fieldwork, I took a photo of it, which you can see on the left.

I've drawn it in the middle, and then I've also located it on the aerial photograph of my school grounds.

Here's what I had to say about why this area was my favourite place to play.

My favourite place to play in my school grounds is the slide in the key stage one playground because when I climb to the top, I feel brave.

So that's why I like that area because I try really hard to get to the top.

I might take a controlled risk if I'm scared of heights, and then that feeling makes me feel brave and proud of myself that I've done that.

Good job, everyone.

You've worked really hard in our lesson today.

You can give yourselves a thumbs up for completing your fieldwork and for sharing information about it.

Well done.

I'm sure you were all able to identify your favourite places to play around school, locate them on an aerial photograph of your school grounds, and then explain why you liked that place to play and why it was your favourite.

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

We all have opinions on our favourite places to play around our school grounds.

Aerial photographs and large scale maps show the main features of a place, for example, the school grounds.

Geographers use images, words, and maps to help them explain why they like a place and how they use it.

Good job, everyone.

You've been fantastic today.

You can give yourselves one last thumbs up.

Thank you for joining me today and for sharing your learning with me.

See you next time for more geography lessons soon.

Goodbye.