Pirate code

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Local Studies: Our School and Local Area Local Land Use

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Objectives

Geography

Use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of their school and its grounds, the key human & physical features of its surrounding environment.
Locate features and routes on a map.
Use aerial photographs and plan perspectives to recognize landmarks and basic human and physical features.
Use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key physical features, including: beach, coast, forest, hill, mountain, river, valley, vegetation and key human features including: city, town, village.

Lesson Planning

Decipher the pirate code to learn about coordinates!

Teaching Outcomes
To learn how to read simple coordinates on maps.

Children will:

Learn to use coordinates to locate position on maps.
Use symbols to represent geographical human and physical features on maps.
Role play ‘pirates’.
Create Pirate Island Tortilla wraps.

Planning

Provided Resources

How to make a pirate map wrap

Unit Resources

You Will Need

Cooking ingredients and utensils
'Our locality' with incomplete grid drawn over it
Key word cards
Map of pirates’ island
Prepared tea stained paper
Large sized grid paper
Plastic counters
Large book to act as screen
Role play props
Small world models
Outline of parrot

Weblinks

Pirate Map Wrap tortilla recipe from bbc.co.uk
Hidden ships interactive game from hiddenships.co.uk