Geography at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 1)

• 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.

• Ask the children to draw a map of their route from home to their classroom and describe their route to a partner.

• Show the children pictures of the locality, ask them to group them into sets, eg far and near, buildings and features, and place them in the sequence they are seen on the route to school.
• Help the children to identify what individual buildings are used for and ask them to annotate correctly the map they have drawn

• Walk the children around the local area to identify the main features and changes that are occurring.
• Ask the children to complete a simple questionnaire to rate the quality of the features and to present the findings in a suitable way, eg chart, graph, poster or similar.
• Ask the children to sketch or photograph a range of attractive and unattractive places and locate these on a large-scale map.
• Discuss with the children their favourite place seen on the walk and ask them to write about it, explaining what makes a 'nice' or 'nasty' place.
• Divide the children into pairs and ask them to identify a route around the area that visitors could follow to give them a good idea of the character of the place.

• 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.

• With the children's help, design and carry out a survey of how they, their parents, other adults and friends spend their leisure time.
• With the children's help, use local maps, photographs, including aerial photographs, and leisure advertisements in local newspapers to plot local recreational facilities on a base map.

• Discuss with the children the changes they have noted during their work on the area. With help from the children, make a list of them and mark them on a large map of the area. Take photographs of the changes to form a historical record that future classes can use when looking at how the area has changed.