KS2 > Geography

Transport > Existing Bridges

LESSON
PLAN
7

Overall Aims:

  • Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied.
  • Use the eight points of a compass, four and six-figure grid references, symbols and key (including the use of Ordnance Survey maps) to build their knowledge of the United Kingdom and the wider world

Comparing satellite images and ordinance survey maps as part of studying bridges across the Thames.

  1. Put the standalone version of the sketch map (Bridge-map1) on an interactive white board. Using a modern digital map work out where the bridges have been added since 1750.

    2. Draw the new bridges onto the map and label them.

    Bridge-map1

  2. There are 8 bridges built on this stretch of the Thames that were not there in 1750 and are still there today. Why were more bridges built and what impact did they have?

  3. Then, on your sketch map, use the eight point compass rose to draw the line of sight used by Canaletto in his two views, one looking towards the City of London and one looking towards Westminster. The answers are on Bridge-map2. There are some clues in the breaks in the railway lines and roads.


    4. Canelletto View from Somerset House East 1750-51



    Canelletto View towards Westminster 1750-51

    Bridge-map2

Download Resources

  1. geography7.pdf