Y1/2 (B): Where am I?
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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- State that the UK stands for the United Kingdom.
- Point to each country in the UK on a map when prompted.
- Verbally identify features within the school grounds.
- Use and respond to directional language.
- State that an aerial photograph is taken from above.
- Recognise some familiar features in aerial photographs.
- Explain that symbols show features on a map.
- Add symbols to a map.
- Identify how places on the school grounds make them feel.
Lessons 2 and 6 require a device to take photographs (one per group).
Suggested prior learning
Y1/2 (A): What can you see at the coast?
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Y1/2 (B): Lesson 1: Where do we live?
- To identify the countries within the United Kingdom.
Y1/2 (B): Lesson 2: What is a feature?
- To identify features in the school grounds.
Y1/2 (B): Lesson 3: What is a map?
- To use directional language to describe the location of features.
Y1/2 (B): Lesson 4: What is an aerial photograph?
- To recognise features from an aerial perspective.
Y1/2 (B): Lesson 5: How are features shown on a map?
- To recognise the purpose of symbols on a map.
Y1/2 (B): Lesson 6: How do places in school make us feel?
- To recognise how different places on the school grounds make me feel.
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