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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 describe and show with maps where you usually go in your local area.

Key Notes

• The 'local area' can mean different things to different people.
• Maps can be used to plot and show your typical range and places visited in a week, and how you feel about them.
• A typical local range will probably include your school, your house, the local shops and play areas.

Vocabulary To Learn

• area: An area is a particular portion of the Earth's surface and it can be as small as a park or as large as an ocean.
• local: Local means an area which the people who live there are familiar with, and encounter in their everyday lives.
• range: Range means the distance and extent an individual may travel in their everyday lives.
• symbol: A symbol is used to show an important landmark, place, feature or area of a map, diagram or drawing.

Common Mistakes To Avoid

• Pupils think the local area is either one particular place or has a particular size.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

More Lessons In This Unit

• Fieldwork: our locality Study Guide
• Key features of our local area Study Guide
• Local and national landmarks Study Guide
• Locating our place with an address and directions Study Guide
• The weather where I live and in the UK Study Guide