ESRO resource ‘Where do you live?’
For these series of lesson I would start off by doing a class trip to our local village. The children would make drawings of the things they see in their village.
As a class will compare and contrast ariel maps of three other villages in Ireland.
Then we would start using the ESRO resource by thiking about or homes. What is it made of, what location is it in in the village, how many doors and windows and what are the main parts of the house.
Children will make their house using recycled materials. Children from 5th class will come and help the class with this.
Once we have made our houses we will put them on display. Drawing attention to what is missing from our village children will brainstorm what they would like to have in their village to make it a community.
Children will make models of the things that they want to add to their community; parks, playground, bakery, restaurants, cafe, pharmacy, schools, clubs and community centre.