Year1/2(KS1)-Geography- How do I get to school (4 Lessons)

4 lessons focusing on how to locate their school

Lesson 1: Who lives where?
Learning objectives
Children should learn:
• that some children live far away from school
while others live nearby and everyone travels
different distances;
• how to measure and compare the distance of the
routes used by the children in their class.

Lesson 2: The journey to school
Learning objectives
Children should learn:
• that everyone travels to school in different ways;
• how to design and carry out a survey;
• to draw a simple graph;
• how to analyse their findings.

Lesson 3: Where is the school?
Learning objectives
Children should learn:
• a sense of place: the relationship between home
and school;
• to draw a picture map

Lesson 4: Describing my route to school
Learning objectives
Children should learn:
• to describe geographical features on their route
to school;
• to compile a personal word bank of geographical
terms;
• to give descriptive directions using adjectives.

Taken from LCP’s KS1 Geography Resource File

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