National curriculum content
Learn geographical skills and fieldwork: use maps and symbols to build their knowledge of the United Kingdom. Use fieldwork to observe, measure, record and present features in the local area using a range of methods, including sketch maps, plans and graphs, and digital technologies. Describe and understand key aspects of:
- physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle
- human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water
Lesson objectives
- To plan and carry out fieldwork to answer a given enquiry question
- To understand how and why housing needs to change over time
- To understand the importance of local work opportunities to the community
- To understand that communities need a range of accessible amenities and public services
- To understand how the geography of communities affects community spirit
- To plan for a sustainable future for our area
What we want children to know
- Why their local area is special
- The range of housing available in the local area
- The different types of industry and employment currently available in the local area
- How the types of industry and employment in the area have changed over time
- That community needs may change in future, and that this will affect local industry and employment opportunities
- What amenities and public services are available locally and be able to use a map to locate these and public services
- That the location of amenities and public services in communities is important
- What community spirit is, and why it is important
- Some activities or facilities that support the development of community spirit
- The design of communities can help or hinder relations
- That they can feel optimistic about the future of their area
- Understand how developments can be sustainable
What skills we want children to develop
- How to plan and carry out fieldwork, using appropriate techniques
- How to take the needs and views of others into account
- Generate ideas and designs that will meet the needs of the community
- How to make designs sustainable
- Choosing appropriate formats to present their geographical learning
- Map reading/interpreting
- Fieldwork
Vocabulary
Brownfield, community, greenfield, industry, primary sector, quaternary sector, recycled, secondary sector, sustainable, tertiary (service) sector