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Geography at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 2)

Unit 22: A contrasting locality overseas - Tocuaro
Section 3: What might it be like to live in Tocuaro?

QCA

Objectives
Children should learn:
  • to use secondary sources of information
  • to identify similarities and differences between places
  • to communicate their findings
  • to recognise how places may change

Activities

Outcomes
Children:
  • Using the pictures and the poster in the pack discuss with the children what life might be like in Tocuaro.
  • Ask the children to make up questions to ask Angelica, the youngest member of the Horta family, like: What is family life like for you? What sort of food do you eat? How much do things cost where you live? The children may then be asked to try to answer the questions they have posed. Alternatively, one child might be asked to act the role of Angelica and try to answer the questions.
  • Using the pupil's book in the pack, ask the children to look up the words 'cooking' and 'tortilla' in the index and write about the food the family would eat.
  • Using picture board number 7, ask the children to make two lists to identify newer and more traditional ways of cooking.
  • Use pages 18-19 in the booklet Mexican Village to encourage children to talk about going to school in Tocuaro.
  • Ask the children to write a description of life in Tocuaro, using headings such as houses, food, shopping and going to school. The use of a writing frame for this task might be helpful for some children.
  • Ask the children to do the same for their own locality and then to decide which aspects of life might be the same for both places.
  • Angelica's father is a mask maker. Using the template provided on picture board 6, ask the children to design a colourful mask for themselves drawing on the traditional Mexican and earlier Aztec designs.
  • Ask the children to think about how life is changing and may change in the future in Tocuaro. A good example to stimulate discussion is picture board 8, which shows washing being done in the traditional way. Ask the children to think about how the method of washing may change now that the family is earning money, and whether the change will be for the better or for the worse.
  • Ask the children to reflect on how their ideas about a Mexican village have changed and developed. Ask them to think about what other questions they might ask to find out more about life in the village or in Mexico in general.
  • have some knowledge of what life might be like in Tocuaro
  • extract information about Tocuaro from secondary sources
  • discuss aspects of life in Tocuaro
  • appreciate similarities and differences between life in Tocuaro and that in their own locality and in the UK
  • recognise and use Mexican designs to make a mask
  • recognise changes in people's lives in Tocuaro
  • recognise that change may be for the better or for the worse

Points to note

History: these activities encourage children to compare old and new, particularly in the picture showing types of cooking utensils, and to compare them with old and new utensils used in the UK.

Art and design: these activities provide an opportunity for children to make traditional masks based on the designs of other countries.

Literacy: these activities provide opportunities to contextualise or reinforce work on the use of indexes and glossaries in information books.

Considering sustainable development involves thinking about social, environmental and economic aspects of change. Use of a washing machine, for example, would make life easier, but too much soapy water may lead to pollution of water and rivers. It is important that children recognise that change can bring both advantages and disadvantages, and that new or modern ways of doing things are not always the best.

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This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.
1. Where is Tocuaro?
2. What is the village of Tocuaro like?
3. What might it be like to live in Tocuaro?
4. General