Activity 1: Pirate map bingo

Locating and naming features on a pirate map.

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Learning goal

  • To find and name familiar features on maps.

EYFS outcomes

Development matters

Understanding the world

  • Draw information from a simple map.
  • Recognise some environments that are different from the one in which they live.

Characteristics of effective learning

  • Creating and thinking critically.

See Development Matters (non-statutory curriculum guidance).

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Support and challenge

Adults can use the opportunity to discuss and/or support with:

  • Discussing what a map is.
  • Thinking about why pirates might need to use a map.
  • Identifying different features on the map.
  • Naming different features on the map.
  • The use of new vocabulary.

Vocabulary

  • feature

  • feature names (e.g. hill, hut, island, lake, land, ocean, palm tree, river)

  • find

  • identify

  • look

  • map

  • search

Curriculum opportunities

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Sophie Pickles (EYFS),  
Geography specialist
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