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Our School from Above

Look at a map of your school from above. Find the school, roads and green places. Pin roads, green places and buildings using the right colours. Discuss what the map shows and draw something near the school.

This lesson is made for your school

Its maps and local places change to show each school's own area: its streets, hills, castles and old workplaces. Pick your school to see the lesson as your class would.

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    Map explorer

    1 - Look and Wonder ~4 mins

    Look at the map on the board. Our school is the pin in the middle.

    What do you notice? What do you wonder?

    Here is our question. What can we see around our school when we look down on it from the sky?

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    2 - Talk and Learn ~6 mins

    Look at each picture. See how a map shows a road, a green place and a building from above.

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    3 - Find and Pin ~13 mins

    Look at the map again. Our school is still in the middle.

    1. What colour are the school grounds?
    2. Where is the road by the gate?
    3. Where can you see a green place?
    4. Where can you see a building that is not our school?

    Pin what we find

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    4 - Write It in Your Copy ~7 mins

    COPYBOOK MOMENT

    In your copy, draw our school and one thing near it from the map. Then finish this sentence: Near our school I can see ...

    An empty box labelled Our school and one thing near it, and a line to finish underneath (a copybook page)

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    5 - What We Found ~5 mins

    a flat paper map of streets and green patches with a small school mark in the middle
    map a picture of a place from above
    a grey road running past a school gate
    road the way cars and people travel
    a small park with grass and two trees
    green place grass, trees or a park
    a simple house with a door and two windows
    building a house, a shop or a school

    What can we see around our school when we look down on it from the sky?

    Can the map tell us what the yard smells like, or who is in the hall now?

    If a visitor came, what would you show them first on this map?

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    Pupil practice · Activity Sheet
    Module 1 · Our School and the Ground Around It
    Lesson 1 · Our School from Above
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