Year 3 Local area: how is it changing? worksheet

“Our changing place” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 3 geography unit “Local area: how is it changing?”, for children aged 7 to 8, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 31 to 36 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Our changing place

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 3 · Geography · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can explain how places change and tell facts from opinions.

A Look back3 min

1.
Look at the map. Letters run along the bottom and numbers go up the side. Circle the symbol in square B3.
pondschoolshop
2.
Which compass point is opposite north? Circle one.
southeastwest
3.
Circle the month with the most rain on this chart.
JanFebMarApr

B Watch me, then you4 min

In a made-up town called Pebble Hill, the council counted new homes in each decade. Which decade had the fewest?

Watch me

The shortest bar shows the fewest new homes.

The 2000s bar is the shortest, at 10 homes.

So the fewest homes were built in the 2000s.

Now you

1.
In the made-up town of Lower Ashby, the council counted new roads. Circle the decade with the most new roads.
1980s1990s2000s2010s

C Your turn6 min

Read each question carefully before you answer.

A river valley with a few new houses on one slope and a wide wild meadow beside the river

1.
Circle the human feature.
a rivera hilla wild meadowa new road
2.
Write each card in the right column.
a rivera hilla bus stopa school
Human features Physical features
3.
Write each card in the right column.
The town has a library.The new houses are ugly.A pond is in the park.Living in a village is best.
Fact Opinion
4.
Circle the year with the most parks counted in this made-up town.
2019202020212022

Say it out loud: What did you notice about the kind of feature or statement in each row?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A small town street where an old car park has become a grassy park with a pond

Ravi says: “Every change makes a town more built up, so towns can never get greener.”

1.
Is Ravi right? Give one reason.

E Think deeper4 min

A grassy field at the edge of a village with hedges and a single tree

1.
Write two sentences about how this field could change over time. Then write one fact about the field now and one opinion about the change.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Our changing place · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. pond your child picked the school or shop. Find the letter B along the bottom, then go up to number 3.

2. south your child may have picked east or west. Point to north, then turn all the way round to find the opposite.

3. Mar your child may have picked January, which is the first bar. Compare every bar before choosing the tallest.

B

1. 1990s your child may have picked the 1980s, which is the first bar. Look for the tallest bar, not the first one.

C

1. a new road your child picked a natural thing. Ask: did people make it?

2. Human features: a bus stop, a school · Physical features: a river, a hill your child put the school with the natural features. Ask: who built it?

3. Fact: The town has a library., A pond is in the park. · Opinion: The new houses are ugly., Living in a village is best. your child put an opinion in the fact column. Ask: could someone prove this is true?

4. 2020 your child may have picked 2019 or 2021. Read across the chart and find the tallest bar.

D

1. Look for: A reason that some places are re-greened, for example an old car park turned into a park or wetland. your child agreed with Ravi. Point to the picture and ask what the old car park has become.

E

1. Look for: Two sentences about a change to the field, one fact about the field as it is now, and one opinion about the change.

Words to use

Say“What is one fact about this place, and what is one opinion someone might have about it?”

Instead of“Telling them the answer as soon as they stop to think.”

After the sheet

Step outside or look from a window for one minute. Sketch what you see, then point to one human feature, one physical feature and one change you think might happen.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Counting years and people(with a plan)
Asking people what they think(with a plan)
Planning our fieldwork walk(with a plan)
Mapping changes in our town(with a plan)
Counting a Busy Pavement(with a plan)

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