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.
Its maps, and the words in yellow, are that school's own local places.
Choose another schoolLook at the map of the land around our school. Our school is in the middle.
What do you notice about the colours and the lines?
Our question: where is the high ground and the low ground around our school, and how does the map show it?
Look at each slide with the teacher. Listen for how colours and lines show high ground, low ground and steep ground.
Where is the highest ground near our school, and where is the lowest?
Is there any water?
Which colour told you?
Where do the contour lines crowd close together, and what is the ground like there?
In your copy, finish this sentence:
When the contour lines are close together, the ground is ...
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