1. Year 2 – Autumn Term 2014 – Geography Planning Topic Focus – Dangerous Animals
Look at a large world map and identify the UK. Introduce the term continent and discuss how this differs from the word country. What continent is the UK in – locate Europe on map of world. Can anyone identify any other places on the map? Explain that the world is made up of 7 continents and that within each continent there are many different countries. Help children to locate North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Australia and Antartica on the map. Give children own A3 copy of world map and ask them to label each continent and shade each a different colour.
What are the names of the world’s 7 continents and 5 oceans and where are they located?
Where in the world might we find a range of dangerous animals?
Provide children with dangerous animal picture cards to locate in the continent where they might be found. Explain how we can use a map key to show dangerous animals around the world. On own maps children can colour 7 squares to correspond to the 7 continents and list dangerous animals that are found in each continent.
What features should I include when constructing my own map and what symbols can I use in my key?
Look at blue areas on map of world. Can the children name any of the oceans. Help them to locate labels for Pacific, Indian, Atlantic, Southern and Artic Oceans. Colour and label oceans on own maps.
Study maps of animal parks and zoos e.g. South Lakes Animal Park, Chester Zoo. Look at how the key is used to locate various places. Create own maps of an imaginary Dangerous Animal Park on A3 sheets. Draw enclosures for each group of animals and create a numbered key. Add in basic symbols for facilities e.g. toilets, car park, café, shop, playground.
Which geographical language can I use to describe a route?
Look at large map of an animal park or zoo and give directions from the main entrance to various locations using appropriate vocabulary (forwards, backwards, along, up, down, across, straight, left, right, around, over, through etc.)
How do grid references help us to locate points on a map?
Introduce children to simple grid references. Locate dangerous animals in the correct square on a grid according to a given grid reference (A2, B4, D7 etc.)