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Britain and Maps
P3/4
Term 1

Language/Literacy
Listening & Talking - Give a presentation on famous British inventors and inventions.
Reading - Read texts about Britain and answer comprehension questions.
-Listen to information about Britain and decide if it is fact or opinion.
-Read our class novel and complete work related to it.
Writing - Write in a variety of ways about Britain.

Rights Respecting School Articles – 24,27,28,31
Sustainability Goals – 3,6,8,11

Activities to try with your child
*Visit the local library and find books about Britain.
* Research different capital cities in Britain using the internet.
*Create your own map either of a local place or an imaginary place. Add symbols to show what is in the area.
*Find out about some British wildlife.
*Create a model of the Loch Ness monster or Big Ben using junk boxes and tubes.
*Visit the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh where you can see thousands of amazing objects.
*Visit the Usborne Quicklinks website at www.usborne.com/quicklinks and type in the keyword Britain.
*Read together – bedtime stories.
*Watch Newsround or read some newspaper articles (age appropriate) and discuss some of these.

Outdoor Learning Opportunities
-Try some simple compass activities.
-Have a scavenger hunt to find map symbols.
-Create a map of the school and surrounding area. Add symbols and a key.

Social Studies
-Locate Britain on a world map and label its countries.
-Use an atlas to locate capital cities, border lines and rivers on a map.
-Describe the characteristics of the environment including rivers, hills, mountains, cities.
-Name some different landmarks and know which part of Britain they can be found.
-Describe different ways in which the land is used in Britain e.g. farming, industrial, housing.
-Produce a basic map for a familiar journey.
-Recognise different map symbols and add them to a map. 
-Find out about the Union Jack flag.

Health & Well Being
-Discuss how to be a good friend and know why friends are important.
-Know the symptoms of common diseases and how to prevent germs from being spread.

S.T.E.M.
-Show an understanding of how to use a compass and the different directions marked on it. (N, E, S, W)
-Know how to use grid references and use these to locate symbols on a map. Know what the symbols are.
-Use Google Earth to explore Britain.
-Find out about some of the landmarks around the country and how they were made/built.
-Use technology to research information about Britain.
-Find out about some of the technological developments developed by famous British inventors e.g. television, telephone, refrigerator, vacuum flask.

Expressive Arts
Music – Listen to different types of music from around the British Isles e.g. pipes, fiddles, folk, sea shanties.
Dance -Find out about different types of dances in Britain e.g. ceilidh, Morris, Irish, maypole and try some of them.
Drama – Create and choose roles when role-playing our class novel.
Art – Andy Warhol inspired flag art.
-Treasure Island map art
Britain map art.