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 unit on our local area.

How do we read maps and plan routes? This lesson is called "Making a Map of Our Route." You are going to be learning to make a map of your route to a local play area.

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 local area, looking at aerial photographs or large scale maps of your local area, planning a route and completing some field work, walking to a play area in your local area.

I'm really excited to get started.

I hope you are too.

These are the key words that we'll be using together today.

We'll be learning more about them later, but first, let's practise saying them together.

Let's do my turn, your turn.

Map or plan.

Map or plan.

Symbol.

Symbol.

Place.

Place.

Well done.

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 today.

First, we're going to be using a journey stick to remember a route, and then we're going to be making a map.

Are you ready to start your learning today? Fantastic.

Let's begin.

We created journey sticks when we went on our field visit to help us remember what we saw on the route.

Do you remember the places that we visited together on our route? Pause the video now and tell your partner all the places and local features that we walked past on our journey and our route to our local play area.

Pause the video now.

Were you able to name some places that you walked past together? Good job.

Well done if you could.

We are going to use our journey stick now to help us remember.

So the start of our journey was our school.

You can see there that the start of my journey would be the stick and I don't need to pick up anything from school because I remember that I started at school.

Then the first local feature that we walked past were the allotments, so you can see that that was represented by the pink rose petals.

Next we walked past the detached house with the solar panels and I picked up that little bit of clay tile.

Next we walked past the lamppost, so that place is represented by those little buzz that you can see attached to my journey stick.

Then it was the end of the school street zone, so I picked up a small bit of bark from there to remember that area.

Next, it was the red postbox.

Remember I said there were some red berries growing there, so that's helped me to remember where I've picked them up from.

And next it was the car garage, the local shop, and I picked up a little rock from there to remember that area.

Next, it was the zebra crossing, so I picked up some black moss because that represented the black marks of the zebra crossing.

And then finally it was the play area.

That was the last place on my journey.

So I picked up a branch that had fallen down with leaves on it to represent the park.

You can see there that I've used my journey stick to remember all of the places and local features that I passed on the way to the local park.

Points on the journey stick relate to an order or sequence.

This helps us think about which place was first, second, third, fourth, fifth, next and last.

Pause the video and see if you can sequence all of the things that I saw.

Use my journey stick as a guide.

The first thing on my journey was leaving school.

Second in my sequence was the allotments.

Third was the semi-detached house with the solar panels.

Fourth was the lamppost.

Fifth was the end of the school street zone.

Sixth was the postbox.

Next it was the car garage or the shop.

Then it was the zebra crossing.

And lastly, or finally it was my local park.

Did you sequence those places correctly? Good job.

Well done if you did.

Sequencing photographs and events from the journey stick helps us remember a journey and places we have visited.

So there's the start of my journey.

During my field work, I did take photographs of every location that I passed to help me remember it and relate it to my journey stick.

The first picture that I'm going to show you after my school was a picture of the allotments.

The second picture was the detached house with the solar panels.

Thirdly, it was the lamppost.

Fourth we had the end of the school street zone.

Fifth was the postbox.

Sixth was the car garage.

Next it was the zebra crossing.

And then lastly, I arrived at the local park where my favourite play area was.

These photographs have helped me sequence or order the events from my journey, and they also helped me remember what I passed and the places that I visited.

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

Sequencing, photographs and events helps us remember the order of what we did on our journey and the places we visited.

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

Did you say true? That's correct.

Sequencing photographs and events helps us remember the order.

It's now time to justify our answer to think about why it's true.

Photographs or a journey stick don't need to be in a sequence to remember a journey or b, sequencing photographs or using a journey stick helps us remember a journey or places we have visited.

Which one justifies that answer? Pause the video now and complete that question.

How did you get on? Did you say B? That's correct.

It's really important that we sequence photographs or events because they help us to remember a journey or places that we visited.

Good job everyone.

You can give yourselves a thumbs up.

Well done.

So let's see if we can remember our route together again.

Pause the video and see if you can do this without my help.

Where are all the places that I visited or passed on my journey or my route to my local play area from school? Pause the video and tell your partner.

Did you remember all the places that we passed? Firstly, I started at school.

Then it was the allotments because I remember the pink rose petals.

Then it was the detached house with the solar panels because I remember picking up that piece of tile or a bit of building materials from there.

Then it was the lamppost because it was those small little buds.

Next, it was the end of the school street zone because they had that small piece of block.

The red berries represent the postbox.

That little stone was the car garage or the shop.

The black moss was the zebra crossing, and then that branch with the leaves represented the play area.

So I've used my journey stick to remember my route and I remembered the correct order or the correct sequence of the places that I visited.

Well done if you got that right as well.

Good job everyone.

It's now time for you to complete task A.

What I would like you to do is to answer these questions.

Why are journey sticks useful to geographers? And then what I would like you to do is to use your journey stick that you created and label all the places that you remember seeing on your route to your local play area.

Pause the video and complete task A.

How did you get on? Here's an example of my task A.

Journey sticks help us remember our journey because the things we put on the sticks remind us of what we could see, hear, smell, and touch at each stop.

Here are all of the places that I could see along my reach to the local play area, school, allotments, detached house with solar panels, lamppost, end of school street zone, postbox, car garage or the shop, the zebra crossing and the play area.

I'm sure you were able to remember all of the places that you walked past on your journey to your local play area.

Good job.

Now answer to this question, why are journey sticks useful to geographers? I've said journey sticks help us remember what we observed during a field trip.

They can help us record and remember what a place is like.

And you could have said there using real or physical objects because that's exactly what we used our journey stick for.

Good job everyone.

Well done for completing task A.

It's now time to move on to the second part of our lesson today, which is making a map.

Geographers make or draw maps to show what places are like and to show routes.

Some people also draw maps to remember areas or places, and that's what we are going to be doing today.

We are going to be drawing a map to help us remember our root from our journey stick.

Is now time for a quick check.

Geographers draw maps to show A, people, B, places, or C, routes.

Pause the video and answer that question.

How did you get on? Did you say B places and C routes? That's correct.

Geographers draw maps to show places and routes.

Well done everyone.

You can give yourselves a thumbs up.

Good job.

Maps made from memory are not usually very accurate, but show what is important to the maker.

And again, it's about helping you remember your route and remember the places that you've been to.

We are going to draw our own map to show our journey from our school to our favourite play area.

Now when we are making our map, we've got to remember to use some symbols.

Map-makers use symbols and colours to show information.

What symbols can you see there? What information would it be showing about our map? Pause the video now and have a look at those symbols.

Great.

Did you have a look at symbols representing places such as the school or the supermarket or the library? Fantastic.

Here are some examples of some symbols you could see on a map.

The symbols you choose to draw can represent whatever you want on your map.

So these were just examples I shared with you to give you an idea, but you can use any symbols to represent all the local features that you saw whilst completing field work.

Points on our journey stick can be related to a map.

Our map will need to start at school and it will need to finish at the playground with the stops in between.

So we are going to use our journey stick to help us draw our map of the root.

Here's the start of the map that I've drawn.

I started at school.

I will use symbols on my map to represent each area.

And remember, you can choose whatever symbols you like to represent your area, but you have to use a key so that people reading your map will know what those symbols mean.

So place number one on my map is my school.

You can see that I've drawn the school and I've written first school.

So now thinking about the next place that I saw, I'm looking at my aerial photograph and I'm comparing that with information from my journey stick.

So I remember that the next place on my journey stick were the pink rose petals and that represents the allotments.

So the next place I've drawn on my map is the allotments.

You can see I've drawn a picture of it and then I've written number two and written second allotments.

I'm building up my map to show all the places that I went to on my route to the local play area.

So I will have the starting point of my route, the end point of my route, and then the stops in between.

Then I remember that the next place I saw was the detached house with the solar panels, and that's because on my journey stick I could see the parts of the tiles that I picked up.

So the next thing I'm going to draw is the detached house with the solar panels and I've made sure to number all of the stops and write what they were to help me remember.

The next thing I saw on my route was a lamppost.

And I know I walked past a lamppost because I remember those small little buds that I picked up at that place to help me remember what I saw.

So I'm going to draw a picture of my lamppost and I'm going to write fourth and write a label to say it was a lamppost.

Can you see how my map is building up to show all of the places that I walked past on my field visit? Now looking back at the aerial photograph, the next place that I went past was the end of the school street zone.

And I know that because I remember that small piece of block that I picked up at that location to help me remember that place.

So I'm going to draw the end of the school street zone and I'm going to write the number five next to it and the word fifth to represent that that was the the fifth thing that I walked past.

Next, it was the postbox.

And I remember the postbox because on my journey stick I've got those red berries that are the same colour as the postbox and represent that place.

So I'm going to draw the postbox on my map and again, I've used the red colour there to represent the postbox.

Next.

Do you remember what was next? It was the car garage or the shop.

And I remember that because I picked up that small rock from the outside of that shop.

That helped me to remember the place that I went to.

So here we go.

I've drawn the car shop and the logo, I've written the number seven and I've written next.

And the symbol that I've used there is the logo of the shop.

So can you see how my map is being built up? It doesn't matter if you've got different numbers or if you've got different words or places.

The important thing to remember is the sequence.

You have to remember the order, the place where you started, the place that you're going to end, and then all of the stops that you saw in between in the correct order and that will help someone else to follow your map and to follow your route.

Next, looking at my aerial photograph, it was a zebra crossing and I remember that it was a zebra crossing because on my journey stick I had that black moss, which represented the black colouring that was on the zebra crossing.

So there you can see I've drawn my zebra crossing.

I've written the word then and the number eight.

Do you remember what was next on my route? After the zebra crossing, I crossed into the park and then walked straight up to the play area.

I know it was the play area that was next because I had that branch with all the leaves on it and that represented all the trees that I loved to climb in my local park.

So you can see finally I've written last the number nine, and then I've drawn a picture of the playground and written a label to say playground.

So you can see here that I've built up a map of my route using my journey stick to help me remember all of the places that I passed in between.

I used my journey stick to help remember a root.

I used my journey stick to help me create a map of our route.

So like I said to you, the most important places are represented on my map, the starting point, the end point, and all of the stops in between along the route that I walked.

It's now time for your task B.

What I would like you to do is to use your journey stick to create your own map to your favourite play area.

You can do it in the same way that I did, build it up a place at a time, using your journey stick and your photographs to remember all of your places.

Pause the video now and complete your map.

How did you get on? I bet that was a really fun activity using your journey stick to remember your route and then drawing your route as a map, remembering all the places that you passed from your starting point, which was school, to the end place, which was the local play area.

Let's have a look at an example of my map.

There you go.

So you can see that the first place was school and the last place was the playground.

And then I've drawn all the stops in between because I related each point of my journey stick to a place which I was then able to draw and label onto my map.

Well done everyone.

Good job, geographers.

I'm sure you had a great time using your journey sticks to remember your route and to draw your own map to your local play area.

Well done.

You've worked really hard today.

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

Today we learned that journey sticks help us remember what we saw during a field trip.

Sequencing photographs helps recall of a journey and places visited.

Geographers make maps to show what places are like and to show routes.

And models or maps made from memory are not usually very accurate, but they show what is important to the maker.

Well done 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.

Bye.