Unit 1: Around our school - the local area Section 1: Where do I live? Where do other pupils live?
Objectives
Children should learn:
that all pupils have a personal address and that they travel to school
Activities
Outcomes
Children:
Ask the children to write out their addresses, with an explanation of each line, and display these around a map of the area.
Discuss with the children who lives the furthest away and who lives the nearest.
With the children's help, design and carry out a survey of how children come to school. Help the children to draw a graph, which could be computer generated, and analyse the findings.
know their own addresses
understand the significance of each line of the address
represent the various types of travel on a simple graph
draw some conclusions from their findings
Points to note
Mathematics: when children carry out a survey and record their results, there are opportunities to link with work on classifying, representing and interpreting data.
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