Today we learnt about imports and exports and the reasons why the UK trades with other countries. We discussed our favourite foods and all the different ingredients and then looked at where each food component comes from.
Then we used atlases to trace the different origins of where our food comes from and created our own food map.
On Wednesday, we revisited some of our geographical knowledge and skills: we recalled types of land use, compared maps and considered why early settlers chose their sites.
Starting with Land Use: we looked for examples of the 5 main types – residential, retail, commercial, entertainment and public authority. We did get fascinated at trying to decide whether Costa Coffee was Retail or Entertainment!
Next, we compared 4 maps; discussing their purpose and which human or physical features they represented:
Next, we discussed how Vikings may have decided where to build early settlements: what they would have needed and where they could be located. Very impressive, Puffins… we used logic and judgement well here!
Here’s a selection of work examples:
Finally, we attempted to design our own Viking Village: using our knowledge of their needs and borrowing ideas of housing structure and layout.
Here are two which were extremely impressive:
Excellent stuff, Puffins! I thoroughly enjoyed that day where we all showed solid skills in Geographical Thinking!
Remembering our lesson last week on Total Journey Times: pick a destination that you know in Croydon (It should be a well-known landmark) and first ESTIMATE how long the journey would take, for each of the types of transport on the supplied table.
Then you can use GOOGLE MAPS (or other navigation app) to find out the ACTUAL journey times for each transport. In the following columns, think how the total time taken would CHANGE due to happening at a different time of day (and how the TRAFFIC will increase or decrease the time taken).
You could then try the same task for a destination in Central London! How about the Royal Courts of Justice… or the London Eye?
Resources
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uO0wVZRDvDmuDkSqIZ1MIZyL3t-XjLVg/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uO0wVZRDvDmuDkSqIZ1MIZyL3t-XjLVg/view?usp=sharing
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