Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe the benefits and disadvantages of an improvement in the local area, a template to select and record arguments for and against a change or improvement to a leisure activity in the local area and a worksheet to record the benefits and disadvantages to an improvement in the local area.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the different locations in the local are that are used for leisure and recreation by families.

This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and compare some of the different political and physical features that can be found in the local area around the school neighbourhood. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.