Year 2 - Geography
Fieldwork: our locality
Local area: why is (our place) special?
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Unit Summary
This unit explores what makes the local area special by identifying key features, landmarks and places of interest. Pupils use maps, address and direction language, local climate knowledge and fieldwork to describe and represent their locality.
Lesson Summary
You can do fieldwork to help you describe, locate and explain special features of your local area.
Key Notes
- We can use a fieldwork safety code to stay safe when completing fieldwork.
- As well as gathering facts about places, a sense of place can be developed using the senses.
- Interesting and favourite human and physical features can be shared with trails, maps and guides for visitors.
- Fieldwork helps us collect information about a place using first-hand experience.
Vocabulary To Learn
- celebrate: When we celebrate we acknowledge an important date, event or place.
- sense of place: A sense of place is the character of a place, or the meaning that people apply to it, including how we feel about a place.
- guide: A guide is a person, book or support that helps you find where places are and what they are like in the area you are exploring.
- fieldwork: Investigating the outdoors using geographical tools and thinking, and gathering information or data is known as fieldwork.
- trail: A trail can be a rough marked path or a marked path with guidance about a route.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Everyday places where we live, are of no particular value for fieldwork.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this geography topic using two clear key points.
We can use a fieldwork safety code to stay safe when completing fieldwork. As well as gathering facts about places, a sense of place can be developed using the senses.
2. Define this geography term and use it in an example. 'celebrate'
When we celebrate we acknowledge an important date, event or place.
3. Correct this common geography misunderstanding.
Mistake: Everyday places where we live, are of no particular value for fieldwork. Correction: Local and ordinary places deserve attention and this can be modelled through careful, local investigations that celebrate the everyday.
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