Helping to Support Teaching and Learning
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Interactive Map Learning
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This pack offers a tactile and visual method to teach geographical skills and fieldwork effectively, including a blank, wipe-clean mat and 22 wooden pieces.
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Curriculum Aligned
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This pack aligns with Key Stage 1 geography curriculum, focusing on spatial awareness, map reading, and basic navigation skills, designed for high teacher satisfaction.
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Map Skills Development
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It facilitates children’s understanding of mapping, landmark recognition, and constructing maps with symbols, using plan perspectives and aerial views to guide learning.
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Comparative Geography
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Promotes the understanding of geographical similarities and differences, supporting comparative studies between the UK and a non-European country.
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Directional Skills
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Supports teaching of geographical skills such as using simple compass directions and locational language, aligning with Key Stage 1 aims.
TTS Bee-Bot® Local Area Pack
A hands-on geography tool featuring a blank, wipe-clean map and wooden street furniture pieces.
Overview
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Facilitates hands-on learning of geographical skills and fieldwork through directing the Bee-Bot® around a customisable local area map.
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Embrace the joys of interactive geography lessons with our Bee-Bot Local Area Pack. This comprehensive set includes a versatile wipe-clean mat and 22 wooden pieces symbolising street furniture, helping children visualise their local environment in engaging ways. Designed for repeated use, the pack not only entertains but educates, supporting the development of essential geographical skills and fieldwork. Bee-Bot® not included.
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Aligned with Key Stage 1 curriculum objectives, it facilitates the teaching of aerial photography interpretation, map-making, and the use of basic symbols in key. It also introduces simple compass directions, enhancing children’s understanding of spatial concepts.
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Moreover, through comparative geographic studies between a small area in the UK and a non-European country, learners gain insights into geographical similarities and differences, enriching their global perspective and encouraging exploration of the physical and human features of different locations.
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Contents may vary.
Supports the National Curriculum
Geography, Key Stage 1, Geographical Skills & Fieldwork
Use aerial photographs and plan perspectives to recognise landmarks and basic human and physical features, devise a simple map and use and construct basic symbols in a key.
Geography, Key Stage 1, Geographical Skills & Fieldwork
Use simple compass directions and locational and directional language, to describe the location of features and routes on a map.
Geography, Key Stage 1, Place Knowledge
Understand geographical similarities and differences through studying the human and physical geography of a small area of the United Kingdom, and of a small area in a contrasting non-European country.
Product Information
Overview
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Suitable for age 5 years and up
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22
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