Lesson video

Hi everybody.

I'm Mrs. Lomas and I am a primary school teacher.

And today I will be teaching you some geography.

I'm very, very excited to be learning all about geography today because it's one of my favourite subjects and I've had a little sneak peek of what we're doing today and it looks really good fun.

So I hope you're ready.

Let's find out what we're going to do today.

So today we're going to be looking at mapping places to visit in my local area.

And by the end of today's lesson, you'll be able to describe and show with maps where you usually go to in your local area.

We have some key keywords today.

Area, local, range and symbol.

Let's do my turn, your turn.

Area.

Local.

Range.

Symbol.

Well done, keep an eye out for today's keywords in the lesson.

Today's lesson is split into three parts.

We have mapping my local area, mapping where I visit and mapping how often I visit.

So we've got lots of mapping today.

How exciting! So let's get started with mapping my local area.

Local means where we live.

I want you to think about your house, your road, your local shop, your school.

Do you have a local big shop and a local little shop, maybe? Have a little think about what other places do you know well in your local area so where you live.

Are there any other places that you visit and you know them very well? I want you to pause the video and collect your answers as a class.

How did you get on? Did some of you say maybe the swimming pool, the local park, the local trampoline place? I don't know.

I hope you've got lots of exciting places to visit though.

So the local area isn't one size.

Everyone's local area is a different size.

Why do you think that is? Have a little think to yourself now.

And I'm going to give you a few hints.

So this person lives in a city.

This person lives in a village.

This person walks to school.

This person goes on a bus to school.

So why do you think all these people might have slightly different sized local areas? Some might have bigger, some might have smaller.

I want you to pause the video and collect your answers together as a class.

How did you get on? A city is much larger, isn't it, than a village.

So you might have more places to go near you in a city than you would in a village.

Also, if you walk to school you are probably not going as far as if you were to get on a bus to go to school or drive to school.

So if you're walking to school your local area might be a bit smaller because you go a shorter distance to school.

Whereas if you get on a bus, your local area would be a bit bigger because you are going a longer distance on the bus.

What other ideas did you come up with? Okay, let's do a little check, shall we? Which describes your local area? A, Less than a mile from your house in any direction.

B, just the street or road where you live.

C, The area just between your house and school.

Or D, The area we know and use close to where we live.

I'll repeat those one more time because that's quite a tricky question, isn't it? So which describes your local area? A, Less than a mile from your house in any direction.

B, Just the street or road where you live.

C, The area just between your house and school.

Or D, The area we know and use close to where we live.

Pause the video, collect your answers together and then come back and check.

How did you get on? If you said D, the area we know and use close to where we live.

You were correct.

Well done.

This is Laura.

She drew a map to show her local area.

What local features has she included? Have a really close look at the map and see what local features has she included.

Collect your answers together, pause the video and then come back to check your answers.

So she's included my school and other housing and my home.

And other local landmarks.

So here we've got a streetlight and a tree.

And you see a bus stop at the top there.

What other features did you spot? What map features has she included in her map? So we know what local features or places and landmarks but what map features has she included? Have a think about all the other maps we've had a look at so far and see what features you can spot in Laura's map.

Pause the video and collect your answers.

Come back and check in a moment.

How did we get on? Did you notice that she included a map key? Labels for buildings and physical and human features.

So do you remember what a map key is? The map key is what tells you what all the symbols are on your map.

So rather than writing everything on your map 'cause it would get very cluttered, you can see there she's got a streetlight, traffic lights, house or shop, tree, path and road.

And you can see the path and the road are different, aren't they? She's also labelled some of the important buildings like her house and her school and she's included both physical and human features.

Who can remember what physical and what human features are? Well done.

Human features are the manmade features, aren't they? And the physical features are the ones made by nature.

Well done if you remembered that.

Okay, let's do a quick check.

What does a map key show? A, all the buildings on the map.

B, what the symbols used on the map mean.

Or C, all the people on the map.

So I want to know what does a map key show? Collect your answers together, pause the video come back and check your answers.

How did you get on? What does a map key show? If you said B, what the symbols used on the map mean you would be correct.

Well done.

Okay, so we've come to our first task.

I want you to draw your own map of the local area where you live.

You could include where you live, your school, where you like to play, where your friend lives and shops that you visit.

But it is up to you what you include in your map.

Remember to include a map key so that people can read your map and understand it.

Pause the video now and when you've completed your task, come back.

How did you get on? I now want you to show your map to your partner.

What is the same about your maps? What is different about your maps? And have you included a map key? Now is the time to add in anything you forgot about as well while showing your partner.

So pause the video, show your map to your partner, have a look at what is the same, what is different.

And if you forgot a little label or a key, now is the time to add it in.

Pause the video and come back when you've finished.

Okay, so we've had a look at mapping my local area.

Now we're going to have a look at mapping where I visit.

This is Izzy.

Izzy drew a map.

What can you see on this map here? Have a little pause and explore the map as a class.

Did you notice Izzy's drawn her school, her shop, the park, a sports club and her grandparents' house? But she's also got little stick figures, hasn't she? She's got little drawings of people on the map.

So what do you think her map shows? Okay, we know the places she's got and we can see that she's got different numbers of people at different places.

I want you to think, pair, share your ideas.

What do you think her map shows? Pause the video.

We'll come back in a moment.

How did you get on? Izzy's map shows how many people go to each place, how many people visit each place.

So let's see how Izzy drew the map.

First, Izzy drew the place all of us go to, the same place nearly every day, most weeks, which is school.

What other places in our local area do you think many of us might go to in a typical week? Pause the video, collect some ideas as a class.

How did you get on? Did you include things like a shop, a park, a sports club? Izzy drew the places that she visits.

So she also drew her grandparent's and then she asked her classmates if they visited, too.

What does Izzy's map show? Is it A, where the shop is? B, who goes to the park.

Or C, where people visit in the local area.

Pause the video, collect your answers and come back in a moment.

How did you get on? So what does Izzy's map show? If you said where people visit in the local area, you would be correct.

Why is there only one person visiting my grandparents? Remember who wrote the map? Whose grandparents are they? Okay? Is it A, because only is Izzy visits her grandparents.

B, her classmates are too busy or C, it is too far away.

Why is there only one person visiting my grandparents? Pause the video, collect your answers and then come back.

How did you get on? So why is there only one person visiting my grandparents? Because only Izzy visits her grandparents.

If you said A, well done.

So each stick person represents one person, okay? So every little person you can see drawn there at the shop means that that's how many people visit.

So you can see there's 1, 2, 3, 4 stick figures which means four people visit the shop and there are 1, 2, 3, 4 people at the sports club.

So that means there are four people visiting the sports club.

It looks like there are quite a lot of people that visit the school isn't there? Okay, maybe you could pause the video and see if you can work out as a class how many people visit the school? Did you work out that 16 people visit the school? Well done.

Okay, so let's have a look now.

How many people visit the sports club? Is it A four, B one or C 16? Collect your answers together as a class and then come back.

How did you get on? How many people visit the sports club? If you said A four, you would be correct.

Well done.

How many people visit my grandparents? Pause the video, collect your answers and then come back.

How did you get on? How many people visit my grandparents? If you said B one, you would be correct.

Well done.

Okay, so this is your second task for today.

You are going to draw your own map of places you and your classmates visit, okay? You need to include your school, places you visit and how many people visit each place.

Remember to include a title and you can see on Izzy's map her title was Places Where My Class Visit.

I think that's a very good title, isn't it? It tells you exactly what the map shows.

So you might want to use that title as well.

Pause the video.

When you are done, come back and we can share our maps.

How did you get on? Okay, now I want you to show your map to your partner.

I want you to work out which place is visited the most by you and your classmates.

Why do you think that is? And which place is visited the least by you and your classmates? Why do you think that is? I want you to work with your partners, explore each other's maps and answer these questions.

Pause the video and come back when you are done.

Okay, well done.

So we've mapped our local area.

We've mapped where you visit.

Let's have a look at mapping how often I visit.

So Lucas and Aisha are talking about places they visit.

Lucas says I go to my nan's a lot.

Aisha says I go to the beach now and then.

Okay, what do you think now and then means? I want you to think, pair, share your ideas, pause the video, come back and we'll have a look.

How did you get on? So if Aisha is going to the beach now and then it means she goes sometimes but not very often, doesn't it? Okay? Lucas says he goes to the supermarket now and then.

And Aisha says she goes to school a lot.

Okay.

Where do you visit a lot and now and then? I want you to collect your answers as a class, pause the video and come back when you are done.

How did you get on? I wonder if you had similar places that you go to a lot as your classmates.

Lucas filled in a grid to show where he visited and how often.

First, he wrote the places he visits.

So you can see there you've got a table and in the first column it says I go to.

and Lucas has put school.

He would then write the other places that he visits across the top.

Then you've got your postcode or address of the place, whether you visit lots or whether you visit now and then.

So he also visits the supermarket, the beach, the takeaway chip shop and his nan's.

Then he ticked whether he visited each place a lot or now and then.

So he visits school lots.

He visits the takeaway chip shop now and then.

He visits the supermarkets now and then.

He visits his nan's lots.

And he visits the beach now and then.

And finally he added the postcodes.

So there's the school postcode, ME12 4AB, and the supermarket and the beach and the takeaway chip shop and his nan's.

Now do you notice something about those postcodes? I want you to see if you can spot anything.

Can you spot a pattern with those postcodes? Okay, I want you to pause the video and come back when you've had a little think.

Did you notice that they all start the same with ME12? That's because we're looking at our local area, aren't we? And so ME12 means they're all in the same local area.

Okay? Let's have a little check.

Look at Lucas's table.

You've got the places where he goes to school first then it's ticked lots or now and then.

And you have school, supermarket, beach, takeaway chip shop and his nan's.

So which places does Lucas visit a lot? Is it A, school and Nan's? B, School and beach.

Or C, School and takeaway chip shop.

Collect your answers, pause the video, come back in a moment.

How did you get on? Which places does Lucas visit a lot? If you'd said A, school and nan's, you were correct, well done.

Which places does Lucas visit now and then? Is it A, school and nan's? B, Supermarket and beach.

Or C, supermarket, beach and take away chip shop? We need to pause the video, collect your answers and then come back.

Okay, how did you get on? So which places does Lucas visit now and then? If you'd said C, the supermarket, beach and take away chip shop, you were correct.

Well done.

Lucas added the information from his grid to a map.

You can see there he's put down where the shop is, where he plays football, his nan's house, the beach, school, and the chip shop.

What symbols does he use to show whether he visits places lots or now and then? Pause the video, come back and check your answer.

How did you get on? He's used dots, hasn't he? He's used blue dots and red dots.

The red dots show the places he visits lots and the blue dots show the places he visits now and then.

Okay? So I want you to tell me blue circles on the map show A, places visited lots, B, places visited never or C, places visited now and then.

So which do the blue circles on the map show? Pause the video, come back and check your answers.

How did you get on? Blue circles on the map show places visited now and then.

So well done if you said C.

What about red circles on the map? What do they show? A, places visited lots.

B, places visited never.

Or C, places visited now and then.

Pause the video, come back and check your answer in a moment.

How did you get on? Red circles on the map show places visited lots.

So if you said A, well done, you were correct.

Okay, so task 3.

You're going to map how often you visit places.

Okay? So for the first section you're going to fill in the grid to show where you visit and how often you go.

So you've got your I go to.

, you're going to write your places in, the postcode and/or the address and then tick do you go lots or do you go now and then.

And you can see on the screen we've already put in school because you are all in school so you all go to school.

Okay? Pause video, have a go, come back when you're done.

Now that you've got that information in a table, you are then going to label the map to show where you visit and how often.

You need to use symbols, you need to add a key and you need to add a title.

So you're going to use the information from the table about where you visit.

Is it lots? Is it now and then? You need to find those places on the map and label them and make sure you use a symbol to show whether you visit a lot or visit now and then.

You'll need a key so we know what the symbols mean and a title so we know what the map shows, okay? I want you to have a go at this one, pause the video and then come back and we'll see how you got on.

How did you get on? It's now time even for you to share your map with your partner.

Have you marked all the usual places you go to in a week? Have you used different colours to show places you go to a lot or a little? What have you found out about similar and different places? And does your map have a title? So now's your chance to add in anything you might have missed out and have a good explore of you and your partner's maps.

Have you got any places that you go to a lot that are the same? And when you've done that, you can come back and we'll have our little summary.

Okay, well done everybody.

Did you have fun sharing your maps with each other? So let's see what we've learned in today's lesson.

We've been mapping places to visit in my local area.

And in our local area, we have many shared places in common like the school, supermarkets and shops.

We may visit places no one else does in the local area like where a relative lives, like your nan for example.

We may have a different range from our friends because of where we're allowed to play out and where we live.

So maybe if you live right next door to the park, you are allowed to go and play in the park by yourself.

But maybe if you live a long way away from the park, you don't go as often as your friend that lives next door to the park 'cause it's a bit harder to get to, okay? Well done everybody.

Well done everybody.

You've created some absolutely fantastic maps today.

I hope you enjoyed doing it.

Don't forget to have a go at the exit quiz if you can.

And then you can just see everything that you've learned today and anything you need to have a little recap on.

And I will see you for our next lesson.

See you later.