Content focus:
Students explore the features of different maps. They develop an understanding of how to read and interpret a map. Students learn about the importance identifying familiar places located on a map and what features a map may include.
Content:
Important places
Students investigate the importance of places they live in and belong to.
Locating places
Students investigate how places can be shown using picture maps.
Key inquiry questions:
- What are maps used for?
- Where are places located in my local environment?
- How do we read maps and identify where places are found?
Geographical concepts:
- Place: the significance of places and what they are like. For example: places students live in and belong to and why they are important.
- Space: the significance of location and spatial distribution, and ways people organise and manage the spaces that we live in. For example: location of a place in relation to other familiar places.
- Environment: the significance of the environment in human life, and the important interrelationships between humans and the environment. For example, how and why places should be looked after.
Outcomes:
A student:
- identifies places and develops an understanding of the importance of places to people
- communicates geographical information and uses geographical tools.
Inquiry skills:
Acquiring geographical information
- pose geographical questions
- record geographical data and information
Processing geographical information
- represent data by constructing maps
- draw conclusions based on discussions of observations
Communicating geographical information
- present information
- listen to others
- draws picture maps
Geographical tools:
Maps
- pictorial maps
Fieldwork
- observing and recording data
Spatial technologies
- digital maps and aerial photographs
Visual representations
- photographs, illustrations, story books, multimedia
Lessons and worksheets included in the download file:
Lesson 1: Exploring maps :: Resource Sheet 1 :: Worksheet 1 :: Resource Sheet 2
Lesson 2: Our local environment :: Worksheet 1
Lesson 3: An introduction to pictorial maps :: Resource sheet 1
Lesson 4: My school’s community
Lesson 5: Going to the zoo :: Resource Sheet 1 :: Resource Sheet 2 :: Worksheet 1
Lesson 6: Grid references :: Resource Sheet 1 :: Worksheet 1
Lesson 7: Where in the world :: Worksheet 1
Lesson 8: Creating your own map :: Resource Sheet 1
Lesson 9: Treasure hunt