Lesson One – School Survey

This geography teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to conduct a survey to investigate, describe and record some of the different ways that pupils in the school can travel to school each day.

The class can practise using pictograms to organise and present the information that they have collected about the different journeys using key questions to interrogate the presented data.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to conduct a survey to investigate, describe and record some of the different ways that pupils in the school can travel to school each day

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to explain ways of presenting and interpreting data about different journeys completed by pupils in a school and differentiated templates to conduct and present information for a survey about journeys that can be completed in the local area.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to conduct a survey to investigate different ways that pupils in the school travel to school each day.

This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get the children to identify and describe some of the different journeys that can be made around the school’s location, in the local neighbourhood and across the wider community. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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