A contrasting UK locality
Describe the physical and human features of the place studied and understand how the mix of these features helps to explain its character; draw out similarities and differences between places and begin to understand links between them; offer appropriate observations about locations and the patterns made by physical and human features; recognise human processes and begin to understand how they can change the character of a place; recognise and describe how people can improve or damage the environment; use confidently a full range of skills and different kinds of maps and resources to undertake some independent investigations and some planned by the teacher.
Teaching Resources
Website resources on Llandudno
Travel Brochure ICT Link 6A
Children create a brochure or a multimedia presentation combining maps, graphs, diagrams, images and information from the internet.
Big Book on Dover - a Seaside town
Email Project
Communicate via e-mail with a class in a contrasting locality who are also studying their local area. Pose questions to each other and compile and send information on their local area in response to questions. (See Connecting to World unit)
 | A contrasting UK Locality - Channel 4 This 4learning site offers information for the children, worksheets for the teacher to download, an image bank for each of the units, web links connected to the unit visited and onscreen activities to be done at home, by the children, to support the learning in school. www.channel4.com |
Investigating a Contrasting UK Locality: Using ICT
"An edited extract from "ICT: An Enquiry Approach" which focuses on the use of ICT-based questionnaires to compare and contrast UK localities."
homepage.ntlworld.com/anthony.pickford2
Find a summary report for your localities (neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk)
Aerial Photos
Show aerial photos, maps or photographs with an area shaded out, ask children to identify what is missing.
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 | The Canterbury Tour Includes 500 pages, each with a short piece of text and a photograph. Navigation buttons mean that you can follow your own ‘virtual tour’, turning left, right, forwards or turning round and seeing the view from the other angle. A compass informs you of the direction you are facing at each point. A clickable map and a search function mean that you can also follow particular lines of enquiry. |
BBC Two Cites - Comparing Belfast and Mexico cities
How do you pronounce Llandudno?
Find out from a primary school in the seaside resort
www.tudno.conwy.sch.uk
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