Title: How do we map landscapes?

– part
2
Starter: what do these OS symbols mean?
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1. Viewpoint
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2. Railway station
2 3. Contour line
7 4. Church with a tower
5. Caravan site
6. Telephone box
7. Golf course
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8. Deciduous woodland
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Title: How do we map landscapes? – part
2Learning Intention: To understand what maps tell us about an area
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Imagining
Keywords: Map, OS symbols Use your imagination to go
through new experiences and
think about new possibilities.
 You have been given 1 square of an OS map. Your
square is 1000m by 1000m.
Task 1: Using the map on
the next slide and the OS
symbols key, answer the
questions below:
1. Identify a river.
2. Where would you find a
public house?
3. Identify a woodland.
4. Identify a main road.
5. Identify a church. Stretch & Challenge: If you took a photo
of the land in your grid square what else
might you see that is not on the map?
 “The map that came to life”
The map that came to life was a book created in
1948 by Ronald Lampitt.
Task: Read through the book extract on the next
few slides

Website of the book

 Task 2: You need to bring your Stuck? Use the symbols key below:

OS map to life by:

- Draw the landscape that you
think is represented in the map.
Choose an area or one grid
square to focus on.
- Making sure you include all
the features like trees, rivers,
lakes, roads, houses, farms etc.
- It will be brought to life with
colour.

Stretch & challenge: Imagine you have a birds eye view of your
OS map square, write a story explaining everything that you see
over the day.