This pack provides an introduction to studying your local area, around the classroom and nearby canals and rivers. It supports the history curriculum - changes within living memory and the geography curriculum - field sketches, maps and diagrams.The pack consists of activity sheets for individual and group work and whiteboard pictures for classroom discussion. The teacher guidance notes provide curriculum links and background information.

A SOW focused on the impact of slavery on West Africa, the Caribbean and a local study on Bristol.

Wewere studying our local area, Gorseinon, and to introduce the topic I gave the children this coprehension to do about the history of Gorseinon. You could adapt this for your own local area.

A comprehensive revision checklist created for Edexcel GCSE History GCSE that includes all aspects of Crime & Punishment. Also includes separate checklist for Whitechapel. There is a pdf version of the file as well to ensure you have correct layout. Attached a word copy incase you want it to be edited.

This is a MS Word document that is easily adaptable to suit your needs. It focuses on a local river study and also includes opportunities to develop feedback and evaluate your progress. It is ideal to support the topic of rivers and can also be used as Homework research topic. I have used this with my Year 4 Class and they were really positive about it. It was completed independently and then discussed as small groups.

Three lessons on aspects of Birmingham history. I put these together as a part of a new SoW for Year 7s because of the new criteria: 'how the local community fits into a wider national and international history.' (Ofsted)

AQA Geography A level hazards resource. This is a model answer for the essay question below: With reference to a local scale of a specific place in a hazardous setting, assess the extent to which the physical nature of hazards can shape the character of a community and its ability to respond to risk. (20 marks) I have written this question and model answers to help students revise this section of the course: Case study at a local scale of a specified place in a hazardous setting to illustrate the physical nature of the hazard and analyse how the economic, social and political character of its community reflects the presence and impacts of the hazard and the community’s response to the risk. Having looked at the textbooks for the section, I felt that the materials on offer were not very effective. Therefore, I have created this document with a model question and answer as well as supporting web links that have maps and diagrams that can be effectively used to create an ‘analyse’ type question. This resource has been seen by an AQA advisor who confirms that it effectively teaches this element of the course. This resource will require a one hour lesson and homework to teach with.

This is lesson for the new Edexcel Geography A-level that introduces pupils to the concept of localism and the reasons behind it. It then goes on to look at the example of Totnes in Devon, with pupils researching a number of initiatives that Totnes has introduced in response to globalisation

Designed for KS3, involving multiple links to GCSE and British Values throughout. This is the first lesson in a scheme of work based around UK Ecosystems, taking students from the processes involved in ecosystems, through food chains and species identification to the impacts and management of our UK ecosystems. Learning Objectives: Describe and explain the ways we can survey wildlife. Analyse the ways Fibbersely nature reserve is affected by humans.

Local study Traffic problems set of 4 worksheets. KS2. Worksheet 1: Pupil traffic survey for pupils to investigate traffic flow on a street nearest to their school (morning, lunchtime, afternoon). The worksheet is simple to use with pictures for easy completion. Pupils count using a tally. Great for small group with an adult. I used this and gave a different group of 6 the task on a specific day of the week. All pupils had a chance to carry out the survey. By the end of the week, we had a picture of the road traffic problems over the course of a week at three different times of the day. Was great for comparison work. Worksheet 2: A set of follow up questions stemming from the survey plus 4 questions asking pupils their opinions about the road after the survey eg how safe do you feel riding a bike on this road? Worksheet 3: Problems caused by traffic through a picture/phrase matching task. Worksheet 4: Improving traffic issues by using road signs in town centres. Links well with work on Cities, Transport, Local Study.

A lesson focusing upon a local study of the First World War, in the Leeds/West Yorkshire/Yorkshire area. Includes a video resource and discussion, local knowledge, an activity around the local area with key focuses, local men and memorials, and an assessment at the end. All resources included within the PowerPoint.

Designed for KS3, involving multiple links to GCSE and British Values throughout. This is the first lesson in a scheme of work based around UK Ecosystems, taking students from the processes involved in ecosystems, through food chains and species identification to the impacts and management of our UK ecosystems. Learning Objectives: Describe the most important sites of fibbersley. Explain how we could manage Fibbersely better. Present your solutions to the class.

A full powerpoint with tasks, relevant theory and extended reading to cover the topic of Local and Global Audiences from the A Level Media Studies specification.

A breakdown of 22 lessons designed to teach KS2 about their local area over a term. This planning predominantly links to the history and geography curriculum but has cross curricular opportunities too. On the last page, I have included opportunities for writing, art and DT linked to the local area study. I have included a lesson title, teaching, activity ideas and national curriculum links taken from the National Curriculum in England © Crown copyright 2013 These ideas and activities are adaptable to your own local area. It is useful to have access to digimaps or other mapping software for this planning.

This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for children learning about buildings over time as a part of their history study of ‘significant historical places in their own locality’ and ‘changes within living memory.’ It tracks the development of buildings from ancient civilisations to the present day, and contains comprehensive sections entitled: Overview; Interesting Local Buildings; Important Vocabulary; Buildings Timeline; Architecture Through Time; Top Buildings Facts. The local buildings are centred on an East of England study, but this can be easily amended on the Word version to suit your own context if needed. The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.

A Knowledge organiser aimed at KS2 based around a local study of Beverley and the East Riding of Yorkshire. 1 page of information. Great for displays, assessment, information to be sent home, research sheets. Editable to suit the scheme of work taught The page includes: -What I should already know -National Curriculum link -Key Vocabulary -Knowledge / Facts -Images / Diagrams -Human and Physical goegraphical features -Blank box to add in Learning objectives / I can statements to suit the scheme of work or planning being taught

In this unit we will explore your local community and its facilities. We will identify ways to be a good citizen. You will go out into the community and look at the local facilities on offer. This will promote independence and help them grow in confidence. They will learn of ways in which they can make a positive contribution to their community.

This is an introduction lesson to Local History, based around Lincolnshire but can easily be adapted for other areas. The others lessons for this SOW will follow.

AQA AS Changing Places Module - Local place study (Colchester) work booklet This work booklet and attached resources provide 6 hours of lesson work, and will allow students to meet all of the requirements outlined in AQA's specification regarding the study of a local place.

3rd lesson in the GCSE Living world topic - This is designed to me completed at home via distance learning. **Topic: Local Ecosystem Case Study ** This is for Landguard Point, Felixstowe but lesson structure could be adapted to locality. WORKBOOK - POWERPOINT - ANSWER BOOKLET To be used with GCSE Geography AQA Student Book (GCSE Geography AQA 2016) by Simon Ross and Nick Rowles **LESSON PLAN: ** Review Questions - these look at last week’s work. Try and answer these (on paper) WITHOUT looking at your notes first to test your knowledge and then use your notes to answer. Landguard is a nature reserve in Felixstowe. It is an actual example of how changes can effect an ecosystem. At GCSE we call these case studies. These are really important because the 9 mark questions are where you need to know about them. Use your booklet and the internet to add notes to the location map of Landguard. Build up the table on the structure of Landguard’s ecosystem using PP. Look at the species table and see if you can find some food chains, colour code. How could the ecosystem at Landguard change? Look at each image and come up with ideas. Then use card sort to fill in the spaces on the diagram sheet Threats to Landguards ecosystem card sort and add to table. Application 6 mark question on changes - use thew help to answer it!