Geography at key stages 1 and 2 (Year 1-6)

Unit 24: Passport to the world
Section 4: What can we find out about places from different media? (Key Stage 1)

Objectives

Children should learn:

to use a variety of media, eg newspapers, stories, TV and the internet to identify and locate a variety of places and to recognise their features

Activities		Outcomes
		Children:
Using photographs and/or headlines taken from a local newspaper, ask the children to identify local events, eg fêtes, sports events, and map them on a large-scale map of the area. Give children opportunities to read stories set in different places. Ask the children to identify the places that occur in the stories they read and locate them on a large wall map. Some stories with a multicultural background should be included. When using non-fiction texts (such as a book on weather or homes and houses) help the children to locate the places mentioned as examples on a map or globe. Ask the children to record their locations on a map. Over a term or year, this will give them a personal record of all of the places 'visited' in the course of their work. Talk with the children about how each place is described in words and pictures. A more challenging exercise might be to ask children to describe what these places might be like - What would it be like to live there? Where in the world is it?		use secondary sources to locate places understand that stories can be set in a variety of locations recognise the importance of places in a variety of types of books understand that other places may have different characteristics from their own area

Points to note

Literacy: these activities provide opportunities for children to read stories from a range of cultures. The use of stories from other countries or set in varying locations widens children's understanding of other places.

Literacy: these activities provide opportunities for children to consider how writers convey the impression of different places. Children may be asked to consider questions like: What do the pictures tell us about a place? and How does the author describe a place? This provides a useful link with work on settings of stories.

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	1. Where can I go from my home? (Key Stage 1)
	2. What links do I have with other places in the world? (Key Stage 1)
	3. How are places similar to, and different from, other places? (Key Stage 1)
	4. What can we find out about places from different media? (Key Stage 1)
	5. How can we find out where places are? (Key Stage 2)
	6. How do we find out about places? (Key Stage 2)
	7. What are the reasons for places being mentioned in the news? (Key Stage 2)
	8. How are places described in stories? (Key Stage 2)

Geography at key stages 1 and 2 (Year 1-6)

Objectives

Activities

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