Starter quiz
- ______ are places where groups of people live and work.
- schools
- settlements ✓
- offices
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- Which of these settlements is a village?
- What is an opinion?
- a fact that can be proven to be true
- a method of collecting data
- a thought, feeling or belief held by a person or group of people. ✓
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- The ______ is the total number of individuals living in a specific area or region.
- 'population' ✓
- Which of these settlement types is the largest?
- village
- megacity ✓
- town
- hamlet
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- Starting with the smallest, order the settlements types by size.
- 1⇔hamlet
- 2⇔village
- 3⇔small town
- 4⇔large town
- 5⇔city
- 6⇔megacity
Exit quiz
- What can show us what an area was like in the past?
- historical maps ✓
- OS maps
- historial images ✓
- satellite images
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What does the letter 'N' stand for on a compass?- narrow
- near
- north ✓
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- Which direction is missing from the four compass points: north, east, south and ______?
- 'west' ✓
- What is a census?
- a count of the number of houses
- a count of how many towns and cities there are ✓
- an official count of the population at a specific time
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- __________ is text or notes added onto a map or image to provide additional information.
- an annotation ✓
- a survey
- a questionnaire
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- What do we call an official collection of data about a whole population?
- 'census' ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Historical maps can be used to find out the size of our local settlement in the past.
- Maps can be used to find our settlement's current size and measure how much it has changed.
- Geographical knowledge helps to explain why some parts of the locale have grown the most/least.
Common misconception
Children may not understand the time periods discussed in this lesson.
You could make a washing line timeline in the classroom with dates familiar to the children as markers then add the maps to the timeline.
Keywords
Historical map - Historical maps show what an area was like in the past.
Annotation - An annotation is text or notes added onto a map or image to provide additional information.
Developed - When something has developed it has changed from how it was in the past, usually for the better.
Census - A census is the official collection of data about a whole population.
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