Geography: Key Stage 2
Sample activity
Geographical
enquiry and skills
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Ask geographical questions, e.g.,
What is this landscape like?
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Collect and record evidence
Analyse evidence and draw
conclusions
Identify and explain
different views that people
hold about topical
geographical issues
Communicate in ways
appropriate to the task and
audience
Use appropriate geographical
vocabulary
Use appropriate fieldwork
techniques
Use secondary sources of
information including aerial
photographs
Decision-making skills
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Identify and describe what places
are like
Describe where places are
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Explain why places are like
they are
Identify how and why places
change and how they may
change in the future
Describe and explain how and
why places are similar to and
different from other places
Recognise how places fit within a
wider geographical context and
are inter-dependent
Recognise and explain patterns
made by individual physical and
human features in environment
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Recognise some physical and
human processes and explain
how these can cause changes in
places and environments
Recognise how people can
improve the environment or
damage it and how decisions
about places and environments
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Consider house and road building
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Discuss gravel extraction; by-pass;
bus routes; amenities; businesses
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Knowledge and
understanding of
places
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Knowledge and
understanding of
patterns and
processes
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Visit Dyke Hills and confluence of
rivers Thames and Thame. Look at
location of hill fort, oppidum, Roman
town and present village
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Role play, e.g., plans to build a hotel,
gravel extraction
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Use aerial photographs in museum to
locate and understand henge and
cursus monuments
E.g., What measures are needed to
improve safety in the High Street
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Compare area around Dorchester
with, e.g., school area
Interpret map; use evidence of site
visit; use grid reference; describe in
relation to home area using compass
directions and distance
Relate Dorchester to geographical
features
Look at old photographs in Museum
and discuss changes since
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Compare village of Dorchester with
home town
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Think about where people work and
shop, supply of goods to hotels,
businesses
Visit confluence for meander; river
erosion
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affect the future quality of
people’s lives
Knowledge and
understanding of
environmental
change and
sustainable
development
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Recognise how and why people
may seek to manage
environments sustainably and to
identify opportunities for own
involvement
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Identify a matter of environmental
concern and discuss ways of
improving this, e.g., traffic flow through
village