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 on the board. Our school is marked in the middle.
Find the school. What else can you see near it? Say what you notice in plain words: roads, buildings, open ground, water, trees, or anything else the map shows.
Our question for today is: What is our place made of?
This map shows the high ground and the low ground near our school.
Now let's answer our question: What is our place made of?
In your copy, finish this sentence in your own words:
Our place is made of …
Name three things from the key we used on the map.
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