We looked at our local area today and used a map to find various locations around the school. The children loved going out and about with the clipboards and finding the 9 locations. We then had to look on the map and find it there too, this was a lot trickier but the pupils were map experts by the end of the lesson.
Meta-skills used during the lesson were: focusing, communicating, sense-making and critical thinking.
We are going to move on to looking at maps of the whole of Lerwick later on in the week and then we will look at the map of Shetland next week.
Shetland is our topic for this term. If anyone has any skills or talents that they would like to share with us to support the class to learn about Shetland then please get in touch.
