Let’s Count our Local Area, Part 2

1. KeyStage 1 KeyStage 2 Let’s Count ourLocal Area, Part 2 Explore the geography of our local area. Look at significant buildings and landmarks Make observations about our local area now and in the past.

2. Let’s Count our Local Area, Part 2 What do you remember seeing on our walk in our local area onLet’s Count! Day? What did we find out about areas changing over time? For example, how much has the Bank of England changed over time?

3. Let’s Count our Local Area, Part 2 On our walk, we looked at: The high street Housing and other buildings Transport

4. Let’s Count our Local Area, Part 2 EYFS In today’s lesson we are going to: Create a model or painting of our local area. Plot the artworks onto our map to create a large 3D map of our area, which can show how things have changed over time We can upload our artwork onto the Let’s Count! website – and we might even win a prize!

5. Let’s Count our Local Area, Part 2 Year 6 On our walk, we gathered data about objects in our local area: What ratio facts can we create using the data we collected on our walk? What did we count the most? What did we count the least?

6. Let’s Count our Local Area, Part 2 Year 6 We can now compare quantities, including looking at ratio and proportion. For example: If for every one 1 bus we saw 6 cars, the ratio is: 1 bus to 6 cars (1:6) How many cars would we have seen if we saw 5 buses? The proportion of vehicles we saw: Bus: 1 in 7 Cars: 6 in 7

7. Let’s Count our Local Area, Part 2 EYFS Let’s go for a walk around our school! What do we notice? Which places are familiar? Which places are new?