Introductory Unit: Using Symbols and making plans'

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Introductory Unit Using Symbols and
making plans.
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Pupil Learning Goals to develop spatial
awareness in the local environment, and to use
symbols to record relative locations of features
on a plan.

• By the end of this introductory unit pupils will
  have
• developed their spatial awareness through
  fieldwork activities
• asked enquiry questions to find out about their
  local environment
• described features in their local environment
• devised and used symbols to represent features on
  a plan
• expressed views about their local environment

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Introductory Unit Using symbols and making
plans.
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Introductory Unit Lesson 1 Familiarisation
with the playground, and gaining a sense of
place.

• Class walk around the playground to familiarise
  children with the relative locations of
  playground games and furniture. Discussion in
  the field of playground features and their
  spatial relationship to each other.
• This field walk was also an ideal opportunity
  to verbally trial the 4 senses technique,
  enabling the children to get a sense of place
  by expressing what they could see, hear, and
  smell, and how they felt.

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Introductory Unit Lesson 2 Recording playground
features using a digital camera.

• The children used a digital
• camera to record images
• of all the playground features.

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Introductory Unit Lesson 3 Devising symbols for
playground plans, and completing a key.
The children were encouraged to devise and colour
their own symbols to simply and clearly represent
the playground feature.
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Introductory Unit Lesson 4 Spatial awareness
and spatial relationships.

• The children enjoyed the Hide and Reveal.
• They predicted which playground feature
• had been hidden, based on knowledge
• they gained in their field observations.

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Introductory Unit Lesson 5 Drawing playground
plans.

• The children were given a basic outline
• of the playground in which to locate the
• playground features using the symbols
• they had created in the key.

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Introductory Unit Lesson 6 Awareness and
evaluation of the playground facilities likes,
dislikes wishes.

• This lesson rounded off
• the introductory unit by
• enabling the children to
• evaluate their local
• environment.