Unit 1: Around our school - the local area Section 5: What jobs do people do in our locality?
Objectives
Children should learn:
to identify some of the uses of land and buildings in their locality
to understand that these uses are linked to the work people do
Activities
Outcomes
Children:
Walk the children around the local area, asking them to observe, record and take photographs of the different uses of land and types of buildings.
With the children's help, draw a large transect diagram of the route taken, and annotate it with photographs and suitable captions.
Discuss with the children the jobs that might exist in the area visited.
Visit a local place of work, eg a shop or office. Find out the number of people working there and the type of jobs carried out.
recognise that different places in the area support different kinds of work
Points to note
Literacy: when children are annotating the transect diagram there are opportunities to discuss the function of labels, eg to remind or to describe, and how they are composed. The labels could be used as a source for reading in subsequent literacy hours.
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