Provide instruction on the terms site and situation using examples from the school and the local community. Site is the physical location of a place. Situation is the relationship between a place and its surrounding area . Describe the location of the school or a local pizza shop in terms of site and situation. This is also an opportunity to review absolute and relative location from Unit 1 of the Grade 7 program.
Students observe and record on their draft map different local land uses during the trip.
Select one distinctive colour to represent each land use class, e.g., yellow for residential. Students create a finished sketch land-use map from the field trip draft version and submit it for peer assessment based on the criteria established in Strategy 1. As an assignment, each student researches to find and copy pictures of various land uses associated with their country for their scrapbook. See Pre-Planning Suggestions . If a field trip is not possible, the class brainstorms local land uses as in Strategy 5 and uses that list to classify local land uses and create a map.