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Learning about the links between our lives and the environment around us is central to geography lessons at this stage. Children find out about an area in China and how it compares with other places around the world.
To help them get the best out of their investigations inside and outside the classroom, they learn how to use maps, photographs and computers - skills which prove useful in other subjects as well as when they leave school.
Children learn to use geographical skills to find out about different places, physical and human features in the environment, changing environments and the ways people and the environment affect each other. They do this through their study of places and themes:
- the local area – its physical and human features
- water - how it affects landscapes and people
- how settlements like towns and villages are different from each other, and how they change
- how and why environments change and how we try to manage them
- weather – different kinds of weather and seasonal changes.
Children use maps, atlases and plans to study places at different scales - local, regional and national. They learn where important places and environments are in the world (for example, cities, rivers and mountain ranges in China, Africa & South America). They look at some of these places in detail. They carry out fieldwork investigations outside the classroom (for example, a survey of a small park, or of different types of shops and houses in the local environment). To support their study, children ask questions, gather and record geographical information and use resources such as maps, atlases, aerial photographs and computer programmes. |
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