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Year 1 - Geography

The street outside our school

Local area: where do we live?

Unit Summary

This unit investigates the area around school and home by identifying local features, exploring buildings, using simple maps, collecting data on how we travel to school, and describing familiar routes using basic geographical vocabulary.

Lesson Summary

You can share your ideas about how you could investigate the local area and help plan fieldwork in the street outside your school.

Key Notes

  • Geographers sometimes draw maps from memory, e.g. a map showing things in a street outside school.
  • Geographers investigate places by going outside to gather information in different ways and we call this fieldwork.
  • Risk assessment means thinking about possible dangers and how you can keep yourself safe.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • fieldwork: Fieldwork is investigating the outdoors using geographical tools and thinking to gather information or data.
  • familiar street features: Familiar street features are those items that you usually find near to roads and pavements.
  • street: A street is a road, usually with houses or buildings on both sides.
  • danger: A danger is a cause of something bad happening.

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • All streets outside schools across the country have all of these features and look the same.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain this geography topic using two clear key points.

Geographers sometimes draw maps from memory, e.g. a map showing things in a street outside school. Geographers investigate places by going outside to gather information in different ways and we call this fieldwork.

2. Define this geography term and use it in an example. 'fieldwork'

Fieldwork is investigating the outdoors using geographical tools and thinking to gather information or data.

3. Correct this common geography misunderstanding.

Mistake: All streets outside schools across the country have all of these features and look the same. Correction: The street outside your school is unique to your school. There might be all, some or none of these features. There could be features outside your school that are not mentioned here.

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