To encourage students’ confidence and skills in applying geographical and mapping concepts to their surroundings. They will use terms related to maps and geography to help explore and understand the world around them. They will produce a classroom map, a detailed map of the school and its environs. They will share their work and explore the concepts of maps, geocaching and the use of coordinates to locate features in an area.

The students listen to a Geographer who supports them in each session. Using geographical terms, coordinate axes and cardinal direction sheets, they map their classroom and they then explore geocaching. They map their school and its immediate surroundings, they explore routes to school, the local environment and the man-made and natural objects there. In the final session, they use coordinates and go on a geocaching treasure hunt of their school grounds.