EYFS Geography Block 1
Street and House Detectives (Features of the local area/creating simple maps)
In this block of learning, you will cover the following lessons:
🗺️ Week 1: What did you see on your way to school today?
🗺️ Week 2: What journeys can we find in the stories we read?
🗺️ Week 3: Let’s go on our own story journey!
🗺️ Week 4: Where in the world are we?
🗺️ Week 5: Can we help with the post?
🗺️ Week 6: What have we learnt as street detectives?
EYFS Outcomes
✅ Draw information from a simple map.
✅ Explore the natural world around them.
✅ Describe what they see, hear and feel whilst outside.
✅ Ask questions to find out more and to check they understand what has been said to them.
✅ Use talk to help work out problems and organise thinking and activities explain how things work and why they might happen.
In Reception, the Understanding the World strand lays the foundation for geographical concepts by helping children:
1. Develop Spatial Awareness: Exploring their immediate environment and simple maps helps children understand spatial relationships and directions, which are core aspects of geography.
2. Recognise and Compare Environments: By comparing their surroundings with those of other places, children start to grasp the idea of geographical diversity and learn that different areas have unique features.
3. Observe and Record Changes: Observing changes in weather and seasons introduces children to basic concepts of physical geography, such as climate and natural processes.
4. Appreciate Cultural Diversity: Learning about different communities and cultures fosters an understanding of human geography, including how people live in various parts of the world and how their environments shape their lifestyles.
Overall, these early experiences help build a foundation for more advanced geographical understanding by developing curiosity about the world and its diverse environments.
