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 Local to Global, How do we identify special places? This lesson is called Annotating our map of the school grounds.

You will be learning to talk about what makes a place special to you, and talk about how you feel about places in your school grounds.

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

This links back to previous learning you might have done exploring your school grounds and 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 and drawing maps or making models as well.

I'm really excited to get started, I hope you are too.

Here are the key words that we will be using together in today's lesson.

We'll be using them and learning more about them as we go through our lesson today.

But first, let's practise saying them together.

Let's do my turn, your turn.

Special place, special place.

large-scale map, large-scale map.

Similarities, similarities.

Differences, differences.

Well done, I want you to be using these keywords throughout the lesson as well.

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

First, we'll be learning about special places, and then we'll be looking at similarities and differences between places.

Are you ready to start your learning for today? Great, let's start our lesson.

Places can be special to us.

Here are some examples of some special places.

School, school is a special place because you go there to learn, you feel safe and secure there, and you have relationships with your friends and teachers.

Home is also a special place.

You feel safe and secure there.

You have family members that might live with you, and it's a place that you spend most of your time.

Another special place could be your favourite play area.

Somewhere that you go to relax, unwind, run around, or even meet friends or family.

What do you think makes a place special? Pause the video now and discuss as a think pair and share activity.

How did you get on? Did you discuss all the things that make places special? I'm sure you did, good job everyone.

Let's think about special places and the features that they might include.

So, it could be that special places are a place of safety and security, for example, your home or your school.

A home of a family member or a loved one could also be a special place.

Somewhere where your grandparents live, your aunts, your uncles, maybe some family friends or even your school friends.

A special place could be a place that you go to with your family.

So it could be a place of worship or maybe a sports club.

It could also be a place that you go as a treat.

So, somewhere that you go for special occasions, like a theme park, a restaurant, or maybe even somewhere that you go on holiday.

Special places could also be places that are special to your loved ones, places that you haven't been to, like cities or countries where your parents or your grandparents might be from.

They could also be places that your friends are from, somewhere that is special to someone who you love.

Special places could also include places that are special historically or geographically.

That means places like museums that store historical objects, art galleries, or maybe even landscapes.

Places like beaches or mountains or areas of natural beauty, or even sculptures or sculpture parks.

So, all of these things could be examples of special places.

I'm sure you talked about some of these things during your discussions as well.

Good job everybody, you can give yourselves a thumbs up.

Well done, it's time for a quick check here.

Examples of special places include, A, a place of worship, B, family home, C, bus stop, or D, holiday destination.

Pause the video now and answer this question.

How did you get on? Did you identify that examples of special places could include places of worship, family homes or a holiday destination? Well done if you've got those right, good job everyone.

You can give yourselves another thumbs up.

That's fantastic learning so far for today, let's continue.

Different people have different viewpoints and feelings about what makes somewhere a special place.

Some people might think that special places are places that are holy and fill you with awe, places of worship, for example.

Other people might think that theme parks or holiday destinations might be places that are special because you might not go there very often as opposed to going to a place of worship quite regularly.

So, different people have got different viewpoints about what makes a place special to them, and it's a feeling that they get from going to that place or being in that environment.

That's their opinion, there's no right or wrong answer.

We've got to appreciate and value that everybody has an opinion and it might not be the same opinion as yours, but it's still valid.

So as I've already said, special places can make us feel different emotions.

What sorts of emotions do you think you might feel when you're in one of your special places? Pause the video and tell your partner.

How did you get on discussing different emotions that special places can make you feel? Did you say emotions like safe, happy, excited? You might also feel a sense of belonging, holy, a sense of awe and amazement and wonder, and you might also feel fit if it's somewhere outside, somewhere where you can go to be healthy.

So these are just a few different emotions that special places can make us feel.

You might have said more emotions that I haven't listed here.

That's also valid because remember we talked about everyone having different opinions and viewpoints.

So all of the emotions that you've mentioned here are exactly what special places make us feel like.

Well done everyone.

So let's think about our school as a special place.

Here's a picture of our school.

All places, including special places, have features.

We can use a large-scale map to identify these features, and that's what we'll be doing later in the lesson.

We'll be using a large-scale map to identify these features.

We can name and describe the features of special places in our school grounds, and you might have also done that previously.

Here's the large-scale plan of our school again.

Places that we can locate on our large-scale map can trigger different feelings or emotions.

That means that you might feel a particular emotion when you're in a particular place around your school grounds.

Let's think about some special places in our school grounds together.

Here's an aerial photograph of my school.

There you can see the Key Stage One playground.

There's the library, so you can see that as well as using large-scale maps, I can also use aerial photographs to locate features of special places.

There's the medical room, the wildlife area or the garden, the multi-use games area, and the seating area for all the parents and visitors to watch the sports.

And then the outdoor gym, which is one of my favourite areas to keep fit and healthy, and the fields and green spaces as well.

So you can see here that we've identified all the special places that we can locate around our school grounds.

Here are some special places around our school grounds in a little bit more detail.

We've got some buildings, so it could be buildings that you go to for your lessons, your classrooms, or other parts of the buildings where the medical room might be or even the dinner hall.

The playground or the play equipment.

So again, that's a special place where you go to relax and have a break during your lessons.

And then the field or green spaces where you can feel connected to nature, and also feel fit and healthy as well.

What makes these places special? Pause the video now and have a discussion with your partner.

What do you think makes these parts of our school grounds special? How did you get on everyone? Did you talk about feeling close to nature? Did you talk about having breaks from lessons, or maybe inside the buildings might be where you do fantastic learning and enjoy your lessons.

It could be that these places are places that you share with your friends, or sometimes even your parents.

Great job everyone, I'm sure you had a really good discussion.

Let's continue to look at more special places around our school.

We've also got the wildlife area or the garden, the outdoor gym, the seating area or the quiet garden, and your multi-use games area or sports facilities.

So looking at these four places, how do these places make you feel? Pause the video now and discuss this with your partner.

Again, did you talk about feeling close to nature and being outside? Did you talk about being fit and healthy? Did you talk about feeling a sense of calm and relaxation, especially if you're sitting in the quiet garden? Maybe feeling that sportsmanship or a good sense of teamwork if you're playing some games in the multi-use games area? You might be feeling quite determined and quite fit and healthy if you're in the outdoor gym, and then in the wildlife area or the garden, you might feel connected to nature, you might feel a sense of awe and wonder, thinking about how something that you might have planted a few months ago has now grown and produced fruit and vegetables.

So you might have said all of those different feelings and emotions, but you could have also said different feelings.

We have to appreciate what everyone feels is valid.

Everyone can have different emotions and feelings triggered by the same places.

So let's have a look at a specific example here.

This is the Key Stage One playground.

How does this playground make you feel in particular? Pause the video and answer that question.

Great, how did you get on? Did you talk about this place making you feel happy or joyful because it's play time, and you've worked really hard so you need a well-earned break? Somewhere to switch your mind off and activate your body physically.

It could be a place that makes you feel hungry, because you know that when you're in the playground it's almost lunchtime, and that means that it's time for you to eat.

You might also feel sad or scared in certain parts of the playground, especially if you fell and hurt yourself.

So you might have been running and tripped over, or you might have felt quite scared at the top of the climbing frame, especially if you're scared of heights.

So those are different feelings and emotions that you might feel, or might be triggered when you're in the Key Stage One playground.

You could also be really excited to line up and come into school for the day, or you might feel quite tired when you line up, ready to go home at the end of the day.

Again, those are all different feelings and emotions that you might feel in one place, and like we've said earlier, your friends might feel different emotions in the same place.

So let's look at another example together.

Here's the quiet garden, how does it make you feel? Pause the video and discuss this with your partner.

How did you get on? Did you talk about the different feelings or emotions that you might feel in the quiet garden? Did you say that you might feel calm because this is an area where it's close to nature? You might also hear bird songs and leaves blowing in the wind.

Again, that will make you feel quite calm and relaxed.

You could feel relaxed because you can clear your mind between classes.

It gives you a chance to switch off your brain and to stop thinking for a minute, and just take in the sights and sounds around you.

You could feel quite tranquil.

So that means that you could also feel quite peaceful because you could read a book and be close to nature.

You can just have a real moment to yourselves in the calm without feeling very hectic or rushed.

You could've talked about those emotions, or again, you could've talked about different emotions.

Good job everyone, I'm sure you've had great discussions there talking about how two places around our school grounds can make you feel.

Maps can be annotated with a range of symbols.

Annotated is another way of saying labelled so that we can share information about places on maps.

Here's our large-scale map again.

You can see that it's a large-scale map of our school grounds.

We can annotate our large-scale map with emoji symbols to show how we feel in each place.

And you can see that I've got a selection of lots of different emoji symbols there, some smiley faces, love heart faces, thumbs up, feeling calm or maybe feeling sad, frightened, or even crying.

And I can use these emoji symbols to annotate the two places that we've just looked at together with how they make me feel.

So, the Key Stage One playground is the first example that we talked about, and I can label it with this emoji, a big smiling face, which means I'm so happy and excited to be in the Key Stage One playground.

The other place we talked about was the quiet garden, and we talked about the quiet garden being quite relaxing or quite tranquil, so I can use this nice calm and content and happy smiling emoji to represent how I feel in that area.

Now these are the two emojis that I've used, but you might use different emojis.

Again, we've talked about validating everybody's feelings, so other pupils might feel some different emotions to you, and if they've chosen to use a different emotion, that's okay, because that's how they feel.

So for example, you might choose a sad emoji in the Key Stage One playground because that might be where you fell off the climbing frame one day.

You might also use maybe a cool emoji with the sunglasses on for the quiet garden because you're close to nature, and it might be quite bright and sunny outside.

It's important to remember that the emoji symbols that you pick to represent these places today might be different.

You might feel differently tomorrow.

You might feel differently next week, or you might feel differently next year.

It is important to remember that emotions can change depending on what happens.

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

That means you've got to think really carefully about whether or not this statement is true.

Emoji symbols can be added to maps.

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

How did you get on? Did you say true? That's correct, emoji symbols can be added to maps.

Now it's time to justify our answer and think about why it's true.

Is it true because, A, emoji symbols can be added to maps to show how we feel in each place, or B, emoji symbols can be added to maps to show us where to go in each place? Pause the video now and complete that check.

Well geographers, how did you get on? Did you say A? That's correct, well done, you can give yourselves a thumbs up.

So, emoji symbols can be added to maps, and that's to show how we feel in each place, and that's what we did together just before we did this check.

Remember I added the really happy smiley face emoji to the Key Stage One playground? That shows me that's how I felt in that place at that time.

Good job everyone.

It's now time for our first task.

What I would like you to do is to write down a list of places in our school grounds that are special to you, and I'd like you to explain why they're special.

I want you to locate your special places on a large-scale plan or map of your school, and annotate them with emoji symbols to show how you feel about them.

Pause the video and complete Task A.

Great, how did you get on everyone? Should we go through an example of what I've done for Task A? I've said that places in the school grounds that are special to me are the climbing frame in the Key Stage One playground because I love climbing, the quiet garden because I love reading my book and relaxing sometimes, the multi-use games area because I can play basketball with my friends and the art room because I can be creative.

So you can see that I've listed there all of my special places around my school grounds.

The next thing I've done is I've located them on the large-scale plan of my school grounds.

So here's an example of a labelled map which has been annotated with emoji symbols.

So you can see there that I've chosen different emojis to show how I'm feeling in each of those places.

So for the Key Stage One playground, you might remember, the last time I showed you that I had a big smiley face.

This time I've just got a normal happy face.

So that shows you that my emotions can change from day to day in special places.

So I've chosen to use that emoji for the Key Stage One playground today.

For the art room, I've chosen the sunglasses emoji 'cause I feel really cool and creative in the art room.

The quiet garden, I feel very calm and content.

Again I've chosen the same emoji that I chose last time because I still feel calm and tranquil and content in that area.

And then for the multi-use games area, I've chosen a big happy smiley face emoji because I was playing basketball with my friends, and we were competing against another school and we won that game.

So I was feeling really happy and really proud of myself.

I'm sure you've located all of your special places on your school grounds as well, and you've added emoji symbols to show how you feel in those special places.

Well done for completing Task A.

Let's move on with our learning now.

We're going to be thinking about similarities and differences between places.

Places can be special because of their features.

Special places have some similarities and differences between them.

This means that some places have features that are the same, and other places have features that are different.

These combinations of features are what makes places special to different people.

Remember we talked about different people liking different places for different reasons? Well, that's based on the similarities and differences.

It's time for another true or false check.

Let's read this statement together, and decide whether it's true or not.

Special places are all the same, is that true or false? Pause the video now and complete that check.

How did you get on? Did you say false? That's correct, special places are not all the same.

We talked about them having similarities, but we also talked about them having differences as well.

So that means that some places could be the same but others could be different.

Let's think about justifying our answer and explaining why this statement is false.

Is it false because, A, special places have features that are similar and some that are different, that is what makes them special, or B, special places are only special if they have the same features? Pause the video now and justify your answer.

How did you get on? Did you say A? That's correct, special places have features that are similar and some that are different, and that's what makes them special.

So that statement proves why our answer was false.

So special places are not all the same, good job everyone.

That was really tricky to get your head around but you did so well.

I'm going to give you another thumbs up, fantastic learning.

Let's think about the similarities and differences of some of our special places around school.

So here's a picture of the Key Stage One playground again.

So that's the example that we talked about earlier, and also the multi-use games area.

Let's think about the similarities and differences, and how we can explain those in more detail.

I've created a little table here, and on the left hand side it says all the similarities between the two places, and on the right side it says all the differences.

So the similarities between the Key Stage One playground and the multi-use games area are that they're both places to play and enjoy a break from lessons.

They're both places that we can keep fit and run around in.

The differences between the two places are that the multi-use games area is for playing team sports, while the Key Stage One climbing frames are for individual play.

So you can see there that I've clearly written down what's the same between those two special places and what's different between those two special places.

Now you might think of more similarities and more differences.

Pause the video here and discuss with your partner.

Can you think of anything else that's the same between these two places, or anything else that's different between these two places? Pause the video now and discuss.

Great job everyone, I'm sure you talked about lots of similarities and lots of differences.

You might have mentioned that in the Key Stage One playground, the slides and the climbing frames mean that you have to climb up things, whereas in the multi-use games area, the floor is all flat.

You could've also talked about different paintings that are on the floor.

So we've got all of the lines for the different sports in the multi-use games area.

And then we've got different games painted on the ground of the Key Stage One playground.

You could've talked about maybe the materials that have been used there, or the different colours that you could see.

You could've talked about anything.

So I'm sure you had a really good discussion about the similarities and differences between those two places, good job everyone.

What I'd like you to do now for this check is to compare the similarities and differences between these special places in our school grounds.

So I'd like you to look at the outdoor gym and the field, pause the video and think about the similarities and differences between these two places.

How did you get on talking about the similarities and differences between these two places? Did you talk about them both being outside and close to nature? You can see that they're surrounded by trees, so you might hear some relaxing bird song or you might hear the wind blowing in the breeze.

Again, both of them are places where you can keep healthy and fit, and there's parts where both of them are made out of wood.

So you can see that the gazebo that's next to the outdoor gym is made out of wood, and then the trim trail on the field is also made out of wood.

Did you talk about the differences being that for the outdoor gym, it's somewhere where you need to be quite active and fit? Did you talk about the trim trail being somewhere where you could compete with others, while the outdoor gym is somewhere where you would do some individual workouts? Did you also talk about maybe the outdoor gym as being a place where you would use all year round, and the trim trail being somewhere where you would only use in the summer? Because you can see that there's quite a lot of grass around it, so if that's wet and muddy, it might be difficult for you to use in the winter when it's raining.

Good job everyone, I'm sure you talked about lots of other similarities and differences between these two places as well.

That's fantastic learning for today.

Now let's look back at our maps from Task A.

Did you all have the same special places? How did those places make you feel? Pause the video and answer those two questions with your partner.

Good job, how did you get on? I'm sure you would've noticed that some of you did say that you had the same special places, but some of you would also say that you had different special places as well.

And I'm sure that you talked about how those places made you feel, and that some of you might have felt the same emotion in those special places, and some of you might have felt different emotions in those special places.

Remember we've talked about everyone having their own opinion, so a special place to someone might not be another pupil's special place, or even if two pupils have got the same special place, they might not feel exactly the same in each one.

Let's go back to my example from Task A.

So here's my large-scale map of my school grounds, and then these were all of the places that I'd located as my favourite places and my special around the school grounds.

And you can see how they made me feel.

So the Key Stage One playground made me feel quite happy.

The art room made me feel really cool and creative.

The quiet garden made me feel relaxed and tranquil and calm.

And the multi-use games area made me feel really happy, excited and proud.

If you'd picked some of these areas as your special places, did they all make you feel the exact same way? I'm sure some of you did feel the same as me, but some of you didn't.

So again, it's really important to appreciate that everyone has got a different opinion.

Do you feel the same about certain places? Do you feel differently about places, why? Share your maps from Task A and discuss this as a class.

You could do it as a think pair and share activity.

Pause the video now and answer these two questions.

Great, I'm sure you had a really good discussion there about how you feel about certain places, and I'm sure you would've noticed that you feel the same as some pupils, and feel differently about those places compared to other pupils, good job everyone.

We can add notes to our large-scale maps to share the similarities and differences that we just talked about.

Again, here's my large-scale map of my school grounds, and the area that I've chosen to talk about is the Key Stage One playground and the MUGA.

So here's the note that I'm going to add about these two places.

These are special places to play and enjoy a break from lessons.

So I've compared both of those special places as having a similarity with each other.

Annotations give us more information about a place.

If geographers draw maps of their favourite places, they will share information about them, like emoji symbols or words and phrases comparing similarities and differences.

And that's what we've done today.

We've shared a large-scale map with emoji symbols showing how we feel in each place.

And then we've also shared a large-scale map with a sentence talking about similarities between two places.

This example uses emoji symbols to show feelings about each special place.

So here's my example again of my large-scale map, and then the emoji symbols that I had from Task A.

So that happy feeling that I feel in the Key Stage One playground, the creative emotion that I feel in the art room, the calm and tranquil emotion that I feel in the quiet garden, and the proud, excited emotion that I feel in the multi-use games area.

It's now time for Task B.

What I would like you to do is to annotate the maps that you labelled in Task A with sentences, comparing the similarities and differences of two to three places that you've located.

Pause the video and complete Task B.

Great, how did you get on? Here's an example of what I've done for Task B.

So you can see that I've used the map there from Task A with all of my labels and my emoji symbols, and then I've added some sentences comparing the similarities and the differences between the few of those places.

I have said the similarities between some of my special places are they are mostly outside, the playground, the garden and the MUGA, and that I can keep fit and healthy.

Those places are the Key Stage One playground and the multi-use games area.

The differences are that the quiet garden is outside, but a place that I can relax.

Another difference is the art room is inside, but it is a special place because I can be creative.

So you can see there that I've compared my special places with similarities and differences.

Good job geographers.

I'm sure you were able to talk about what makes a place special to you, and how you feel about spaces and places in your school grounds.

You also looked at similarities and differences between special places in your school grounds and you shared all of that learning with your class as well.

I'm sure you appreciated everyone has their own opinion, and that no one is right or wrong.

Good job everyone, let's give yourselves another thumbs up for doing that fantastic learning.

We've now come to the end of our lesson, so let's go through a quick summary of all the learning that we've completed together today.

People have different points of view about what makes a place special.

Places have features that can be named and described, and places also trigger different kinds of feelings.

Maps can be annotated using a range of symbols, including emoji symbols.

If geographers draw maps of their special places, they will show similarities and differences.

And that's all the fantastic learning that you've completed today.

You've been brilliant today, well done.

You can give yourselves one last thumbs up.

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

See you soon for more geography lessons, goodbye.