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- A Postcard From
- Are Cities Jungles?
- Britkid
- Google My Place
- Homes & Habitats
- Local Headlines
- Message in a Bottle
- My Place In Poetry
- My Place Through a Lens
- Our Place in The Future
- Place Names
- Stories About Place
- The Places in Us
- Thinking With Your Feet
- Time Travellers
- Top Ten of My Places
- Virtual Communities
- Where is Our Place?
Where Do We Live?
Where is our place? 
Starter activity to learn or review where ‘our place’ is in the world. Introduces the idea of scale from the street to the world.
KS2 | 15 Mins | Teacher led
The places in us
Short individual activity that gets learners to think about the places that are important to them. Contributes to their understanding of multiple identities.
KS2 | 60 Mins | Individual
Time travellers
An activity that enables learners to think about their place and their community in terms of time. It investigates connections with the past and with the future
KS3 | 60 Mins | Individual
Places names
Starter activity to explore where place names come from, and what meaning might be contained within a place name.
KS2 | 15 Mins | Group
Our place in the future
Thinking activity that supports learners to consider the future of their place. It introduces the idea of probable and preferable futures and their role as active citizens.
KS3 | 60 Mins | Group
My place through a lens
Using images taken by learners to explore how we see where we live.
KS2 | 60 Mins | Individual
A postcard from
A collaborative activity that gets learners to create a postcard from where they live for sharing with a link partner.
KS1 | 30 Mins | Group
Google my place
Starter activity using Google Images (or Google Earth) to see our place (the local) from a global perspective.
KS2 | 60 Mins | Group
Virtual communities
An ICT activity in which learners think about the relationship between the Internet and their sense of community.
KS2 | 60 Mins | Group
Local headlines
Using local newspapers to explore how where we live is represented in the local media.
KS2 | 60 Mins | Group
Stories about place
Using stories to help learners explore the way people think and feel about where they live.
KS2 | 30 Mins | Teacher led
My place in poetry
A literacy activity that uses acrostic poetry to look at the language and imagery that places evoke.
KS2 | 60 Mins | Group
Are cities jungles?
Using a poem that evokes the city as a jungle, to inspire creative thinking around the city as place and to explore stereotypes and perspectives..
KS3 | 60 Mins | Teacher led
Message in a bottle
An activity that uses the ‘message in a bottle’ metaphor to engage learners in thinking about what their place means to them.
KS2 | 60 Mins | Individual
Top 10 of my places
A fun and participatory activity that allows learners to discover the connections between themselves.
KS2 | 60 Mins | Group
Britkid
Using the popular Britkid website, this activity focuses on the different views that we may each have of where we live, and the relationship between identity and place.
KS2 | 30 Mins | Individual
Homes & habitats
An art activity that allows younger pupils to compare animal homes with human homes.
KS3 | 60 Mins | Group
Thinking with your feet
A participatory activity exploring the local, national and global scales of where we live, based on the Geoscapes activity.
KS2 | 15 Mins | Teacher led
