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Learning Pack Coventry Atlas Learning Pack A learning pack for key stages 1,2 and 3 to support Coventry Atlas https://www.coventryatlas.org/ as a tool for a historical and geographical local area study Written by Madalyn Baskerville, Heritage Education Consultant 1 This Learning Pack has been designed specifically to be used flexibly within the KS2 curriculum, across different topic areas with opportunities for use in KS1 and extension into KS3. Coventry Atlas website can also be used as a resource for KS4 and KS5 independent research projects. This pack includes themed teachers notes with suggested activity ideas. These range from class discussions, individual tasks, group work, fieldwork, research, pupil presentations, resource sheets with links to further resources that will help you develop your local studies lessons in geography and history further. There are plenty of ideas for you to choose. The intention is that you will ‘pick and mix’ and adapt your own lesson plans/ resources as you wish. Please also see accompanying powerpoint presentation – https://www.coventryatlas.org/learning. Contents Page Page Theme 1: Investigating Maps Teachers Notes 2-5 Suggested Activity Sheets 6-9 Theme 2: Time Detectives Teachers Notes 10-13 Suggested Activity Sheets 14-21 Theme 3: People of Coventry Teachers Notes 24-25 Suggested Activity Sheets 26 Theme 4: Celebrating Coventry Teachers Notes 27 Appendix 1 Other Local History Resources 28-29 Written by: Madalyn Baskerville, Heritage Education Consultant, [email protected] 2 Theme 1: Investigating maps Background for the teacher: In medieval times Coventry was in effect the ‘capital’ of the Midlands, the fourth largest city in England, only smaller than York, Bristol and London. The air raids during the Second World War had the most devastating and significant impact on the city. Many of the old buildings and street patterns of the city centre were swept away. People saw this as an opportunity to put into place ideas for building a new city, that had started before the war, but were made easier after the bombing. The city centre was designed by Donald E Gibson who was appointed Coventry City Architect in 1938. However, due to the bomb damage Gibson had to rework his plans. Gibson's reworked plans were published in 1941 and were soon used as propaganda for post-war reconstruction of Britain, they were approved in 1946. By the end of the 1950s a new city for the future had been created and new concepts like ‘pedestrianised shopping’ in Broadgate (the first in the country and Europe!) and the ‘ring road’ were introduced. Through looking at maps, pupils will be able to describe the human and physical features that typify your locality, assessing how changes and developments from the past characterise the locality. Learning Objectives: Pupils will: • Interpret a range of maps and plans of different dates • Understand human and physical features that typify their locality and how this may differ to other places. • Recognise continuity and change in land use • Understand which developments have had the most impact in their locality • Understand which events have had the most impact in their locality • Understand why and how Coventry developed where it is: economic activity including trade links and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water. Resources: • Coventry Atlas https://www.coventryatlas.org/ - either live or screen prints of selected maps. To make a screen print hold down ‘Ctrl’ and ‘PrtSc’ and then paste the image of your map into your chosen document. • Maps and overlays are ordered alphabetically into different settlement areas and different types of maps. • To turn the tags off the maps so you can see the maps more clearly: Select chosen map, then go to ‘Search’, at the top toolbar, deselect Records and Collections and click Search and the tags will disappear. • Further instructions on accessing the maps can be found here: https://www.coventryatlas.org/map/help • Powerpoint presentation: Time Detectives https://www.coventryatlas.org/learning • Activity resource sheets 1, 3 and 4 • Google maps and a selection of other maps such as Atlas’s and recent ordnance survey maps if you have them. • Many more old maps of Coventry and the whole of the UK, especially smaller scale maps can be found here on the National Libraries of Scotland website: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by- side/swipe/#zoom=10&lat=52.4991&lon=-1.5579&layers=175&right=BingHyb 3 Suggested Learning Activities 1. Where you live? How can you tell the • Find your school on google maps. difference between a • Explore other well-known local landmarks: places house and a school? of worship, shops, housing and locate where Consider the people live and their journey to school. difference in size, • Now go to Coventry Atlas https://www.coventryatlas.org/ and go to shape, position in ‘explore map’ on the homepage and see if you can find the location of relation to other your school. You may need to use the landmarks you’ve discussed on buildings. google maps to orientate yourself. • You can remove tags from the map using the function as described above. • Using Activity 1 Where in the World Resource Sheets, print and cut out all or a selection of the ‘place words’, depending on the ability of your class. • Working in pairs or small groups put the words in order of size from largest to smallest. • Discuss the answers as a group. Depending on what ‘place words’ you use, you can use ‘Coventry Atlas’ to explore some examples for local street names, villages, town, county and country names. • Older pupils may want to also use a selection of real atlas’ to look at different political maps, showing boundaries of countries and counties for example. 2. Directions • Go to Coventry Atlas modern map by going to ‘explore map’ on the homepage. • In order for pupils to become familiar with using maps and their local area, create some scenarios with the class for travelling between different locations within the city – see below. • Younger children may find it easier to have a print out of a map that you could do by creating a screen shot (Hold down the ‘Ctrl’ button and ‘PrtSc’ button on your key board and then paste it into a new document). • Older pupils could use an ordnance survey map and use 4 figure or 6 figure grid references for starting points and language like ‘head north east’ and journeys can be made longer and more complicated. For example: On the way home from school you want to stop at the shops and pick up an ice cream and then go to the park. You need to give your friends the directions to join you. Remember to give direction and distance. Encourage language like ‘go forward’, ‘take the first left’, ‘pass the library’. Pupils work in pairs to . direct each other the correct way to their destination. To develop skills and make it harder, journeys can be made longer and more complicated 3. Investigating and Comparing New and Old maps • Go to ‘explore map’ on the homepage of Coventry Atlas. Select the ‘overlays’ icon from the toolbar to take you to the Map Directory. • Maps and overlays are ordered alphabetically into different settlement areas and different types of maps. • Choose an old map of your locality and click ‘overlay’ 4 • Use the ‘overlay toolbar’ at the bottom of the map to alter the transparency so you can see the old map below the modern map. • You can also click the green left-pointing arrow at the top of the tray to make it disappear. By going into ‘search’ at the top toolbar and de-selecting records and collections and pressing enter, all the tags will disappear so the map can be seen more clearly. • To remove the map, click “Close Overlay” at the top and de-select the box in the map you were viewing. Compare the modern map with an older The population of map of your locality. Look what features have disappeared or Coventry increased appeared (such as buildings, roads and open spaces) and how the from 69 978 in 1901 to city has grown over time. 106 978 in 1911. • Discuss how and why the place may have changed overtime. Using Activity 3 Resource Sheet Investigating Can you see how this Old Maps to study the maps for your locality in more impacted the size of detail. Choose how large an area you want to focus on. the settlement on the • You can simplify the questions or just use the main headings for lower key maps? stages. Children are not expected to answer all the questions, the idea is to get the children thinking about the special features of their locality. By adding layers to your maps it will be easier to see the changes overtime. 4. Journey Through Time. • Get outside in your local area and spot the differences that you have identified on the maps in the classroom. • Using the school as a starting point, work in groups using either tablets or printed copies of an older map of your area. • Identify 3-6 points of interest and plan a route to see how much you can spot that is on your old the map. Walk the pre-planned route while identifying your location on the printed map. Alternatively, you could use GPS on a tablet or mobile and identify the different features that you discussed in class. • Look for features such as water pumps, wash houses that are no longer used. Roads widening, street patterns changing. Old buildings that are missing/ changed use or new buildings that have appeared.
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