Year One Afternoon Blocked work Plan – Geography 29/01/08 to 08/02/08

LEARNING OBJECTIVES / Teacher led activity / Child initiated
activity / Resources / Vocabulary / ASSESSMENT POINTS
29.01.08 (Tues)
Where do I live? Where do other pupils live?
§  that all pupils have a personal address and that they travel to school
30.01.08 (Wed)
Where is the school? How do I get to school?
§  their sense of place in relation to home and school
§  to describe a route
01.02.08 (Fri)
What can we see in the streets around our school?
§  to recognise some of the physical and human features in their locality
§  to understand some of the ways in which the features are used
05.02.08 (Tues)
What are our immediate surroundings like?
§  to describe the features of the local environment
§  to express views on the features
§  that changes occur in the locality
06.02.08 (Wed)
How do people spend their leisure time?
§  about the need for leisure activities and the types of facilities available
08.02.08 (Fri)
Are there any changes taking place in our area?
§  how places change for better or worse over time / http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/where_we_live/eng/Introduction/default.htm
Starter
Types of homes – what type of house do children live in?
Main session 2
Deliver letters – why do our houses need numbers?
Plenary game
Quiz – types of homes
AT END
How do you travel to school?
Complete table as whole class.
Print and add to their files.
(Didn’t do yesterday)
How do you travel to school?
Complete table as whole class.
Print and add to their files.
We know how you travel to school now – but what about the route you take to get to school.
Things to think about:
- Roads (do you cross any?)
- Buildings that you see
- Rivers
- Parks
- Places
Show my route to school and talk through it – describing features.
Brainstorm different features in the school locality. List them on the board.
P – Mountains, River, Valley
H – Farms, Shops, Houses
Explain that these features can be divided into groups –physical and human.
Physical – made by nature
Human – made by people
Go through sheet together and decide on groups.
Children to complete human/physical sheets
Map where the children live on the enlarged map.
Talk about:
§  the types of buildings we have in the local area
(church, houses, shops, school)
§  different types of land (shops – concrete, park – grass etc)
Brainstorm
And describing words for places
(Adjectives – can they remember word?)
What makes a nice or nasty place?
Brainstorm ideas and give examples.
How could we improve some of the nasty places?
(Make a new playground, more grass, less traffic etc)
How can we find out about what people like to do in their leisure time?
Interview each other in pairs/small groups about own interests.
Where do you do _____?
Feedback – what did you find out?
Make a class questionnaire (type it up) to find out what Mrs Delaney likes to do in her leisure time.
What qs can we ask?
When shall we ask her?
Who will ask which questions?
Will we remember them or write them down? / Worksheet
Write address and draw a picture of home.
Write labels for homes. HA to write sentences.
Early finishers
Use Lego, shapes and multilink to make a house. What type of house did you make?
Children to draw their route from home to school.
First on a whiteboard and describe route to partner – show a few to class to give ideas/give help.
Then draw route on paper and label as much as possible.
Children to complete sheets to show the features that they see on the way to school.
Sheet
Draw a nice place and a nasty place – why are they nice/nasty? What features do you like/dislike?
Why?
Choose person that you don’t normally work with – spend 10 mins doing what one person likes to do, then swap.
What activities did you do?
Did you enjoy learning about something different? / Worksheet
Lego
Shapes
Multilink
IWB
Whiteboards
Pens
My route to school / Address
Travel
Buildings
House
Flat
Bungalow
Journey
Travel
Near
Far
Route
Features
Locality
Area
Human
Physical
Features
Attractive
Unattractive
Buildings
Shop
Houses
Park
Playground
Books from library
Beads to thread
Puzzles
Games
Paper
Sand
Computer / Children:
§  know their own address
§  understand the significance of each line of their address
§  represent the various types of travel on a simple graph
Children:
§  draw a map showing their route to school
§  recognise where place are
Children can:
§  identify a clear sequence of features seen on their way to school.
§  Use correct vocabulary to describe features.
Children can:
§  use a range of words and pictures to show their views on the quality of the environment
§  know about changes in their locality
EVALUATION/COMMENTS