Autumn 2 – Class 4 – Investigating Our World – Parent Information

During the Investigating Our World project, your child will study Ordnance Survey maps to write a description of the local area. They will learn about contour lines and revise six-figure grid references to locate features on maps. Your child will learn about the Prime, or Greenwich, Meridian and find out that Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT, is taken from the Prime Meridian. They will know that the Earth is split into 24 time zones and calculate the time in places worldwide. Your child will learn about climate zones, vegetation belts and biomes. They will find out that the climate and vegetation in an area determine the animals that live there. Your child will learn about the human geography of the continents and locate capital cities around the world. They will identify relative locations and use the scale bars on maps to find the distance between places. They will study the motorway network across the United Kingdom, learning how they connect towns, cities and transport links across the country. Your child will explore a settlement hierarchy diagram and learn about the relative size, significance and populations of settlements. At the end of the project, they will carry out a fieldwork enquiry to discover which settlement types are in their local area.

Class 4 Homework ideas for Investigating Our World:

• Create a map of your local area.
• Compare where we live to a place in the world with a different climate. What are the similarities and differences?
• Provide directions for getting from one place to another. What transport links will you need to use? Road, boats, airplanes? How long will it take? How far is it?
• Create some ‘animal inspired’ artwork using a media of your own choice.
• If you have any ideas of your own for your homework project that are linked to our topic ‘Investigating Our World’, please feel free to produce something completely different to what is on the list!

I can’t wait to see what you come up with at the end of the term 😊

Mrs Green