This quiz will test your knowledge of atlas map skills. Q4: Credit: Wikimedia Commons- Djexplo.

Latitude is shown by...

An example of a line of longitude is...

When reading a map of latitude and longitude, which line do you read first?

Which of the following statements are correct? (Choose 2).

Which statements below are true? (Choose 3).

Atlas maps

﻿Hi, I'm Miss Goacher and welcome to today's lesson. This unit of work is specifically focused on key skills that you will need for both your geography exams and your field work. Our focus today is on OS map skills and there is a high likelihood that you will come across one of these maps in one of your geography papers. You are going to need a pen and some paper today, but please also be aware that there may be some symbols in the lesson today that might appear small if you're watching this video on a phone. If you've got access to a PC screen, that would be brilliant. If not, don't panic. You can just pause the video as we go through to make sure that you are accurately analysing those OS map symbols. Pause the video if you need to go and get anything to help you with today's lesson. And when you resume, we'll start to look at some of those skills together. OS maps are really useful source of information for geographers. Throughout this lesson, we will look at the key information that is shown by these key maps. We can look at human features and physical features, and there are several other skills that you may have looked at at school that you can do with these OS maps. We're going to focus primarily on how to read these OS maps and how to identify some different features. You can see an extract from an OS map on the screen and this is a typical OS map. What you should be able to notice, is the level of information that this map tells us. And we will work through the lesson today to find out what information we can gain. So the first skill that we need to be able to understand with OS maps, is grid referencing. Grid referencing is a method that helps us to locate specific locations on an OS map. Have a look at the map extract that we've got here. You can see that we've got grid references. These are basically grids with numbers. If you read these grid references, they will take you to specific locations on the OS map. To read these grid references, the first thing that we do, is we read the eastings. These are these numbers on the bottom of the map here. You may have heard the poem or the rhyme, "along the corridor, up the stairs." This is the along the corridor part of our grid referencing skills. We then follow that by reading up the map or up the stairs. These are called our northings. You read from the left of the square and the bottom of the square. So for example, if I wanted to find the number for this grid square here, I would read my eastings first, along the corridor to the bottom left-hand corner. So this square here would be square 52. I can read my northings. I could go up the stairs and I read the bottom of that square, which is line 65. So let's have a little bit of a practise. We want to find out the cemetery. We can see that cemetery is located here. So we read along the eastings first, and that takes us to grid square 50. Remember that bottom left-hand corner. We then read up the northings, and that takes us to line 67. That is in the bottom of that square there. That gives us then a grid reference of 50 67 for the cemetery. Let's have a look at whether we can find out the full figure grid reference for the college shown by this symbol here. Quickly pause the video, give yourselves 15 to 20 seconds to see if you can identify what the four figure grid reference would be for this particular place. Remember the rules, along the corridor with those eastings first, up the stairs, read the northings second. Did we get, 51 66? Let's look at how we found that out together. There's our college. Read along the corridor first, and it's in that bottom left-hand corner of the square, which takes us to the eastings of 51. Read up the stairs, next bottom corner, 66. We would write it like this and that will be our four figure grid reference. Four figure grid references give us a grid square. But, if we wanted to be even more specific, we could use a six-figure grid reference that will take us to a specific location in that square. We still need to be able to use four figure grid reference in here, but this time we have to be able to look more accurately at the square. So, we have to imagine that we split these big grid squares into a 10 by 10 grid. Some maps will already have this written on them, but for others, you will need to be able to visually estimate where you think those grid lines would be. Let's see what this would look like on our map. As you can see, we've got 10 separate lines along here and 10 separate lines along here. This allows us now to be far more accurate with giving some of these locations. So if we wanted to find the church that is located here, all that we have to do, is the same rules. We read along the bottom first, followed by up the side second. So, our full figure grid reference for this, would be 50 67. But we want to find the really accurate part of the square. So when we're reading along our eastings here, let's see how many of these smaller lines we have to pass to find the church. So, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. So that means it's in that ninth part of our 50th square. Let's do the same up the side. One, two, three, four, five. It sits on the fifth part of that grid. So how would this be written as a six figure grid reference? We'd write it as 509 675. Five, zero and the ninth part of that square, six, seven and the fifth part of that square. Let's look at another one together. Can you really quickly have a look at where you would locate the cathedral? Remember the rule, find your four figure first, and imagine you've split that square into a 10 by 10 grid to give you those accurate places in the grid square. Again, quickly pause, have a look and let see what you can identify. So, did we find out it's in grid square 51 and it's approximately four along and it's in grid square 66 at the side, and it's approximately two up? So our six figure grid reference for our cathedral is 514 662. Did you get those numbers? Don't panic if you are the odd one out on your six figure grid reference. So if you've got 515 or 513 or 661 or 663, that's absolutely fine. As long as you've got those four figures absolutely spots on, your third and sixth figures can be the odd one out because it's based on estimating. So what other information can we find out from OS maps? We can find out human and physical features. You can see on the side of the screen here, that we've got a key. Don't panic. You're not going to be expected to remember these. You will get given these in an exam paper. What's really important with this part of the skill, is being able to spot them on a map and being able to find them. So let's have a look really carefully and quickly together at how we can use the key to identify human features. Here's our first one. You can see here, that we've got a symbol for a church with a tower. If you were asked to identify human feature in that grid square, that is one of them that we could pick out. We can also find out about boat trips. Here is our symbol here on the map. And we can read very carefully and clearly on the key that that is a boat trip. We can find out the museum. There's a museum and there's the key to identify the feature. And we could find out the nature reserve. It's slightly a physical feature, but is used very much by humans to visit for recreational purposes. You're going to need to keep your eye out for some of these symbols later and in the quiz link to today's lesson. So make sure that you know exactly what some of these symbols represent. Remember, we're looking at human and physical features here, and remember that you will always get given a key in the exam. You can also find out some physical features. And again, this part of the key will be in your exam. So if I wanted to see what these symbols here on the map meant, I could look very carefully at my key and find out that it represents different types of forest or trees. I can also have a look at what this part of the map represents by looking at the colour represented on the key. These may appear later on in the lesson or in your quiz. So again, double check that you know a little bit about what these different symbols might represent. That brings us to a quick skills task. What I want you to do, is I want you to answer the following four questions based on the grid that you've got on your screen. This is parts of an OS map, and you can see very clearly we've got a grid references, both up the side and here represented as our eastings. All that you need to do, is see if you can answer those four questions. So pause the video to see what you can identify and answer. And when you resume, we'll go through those answers together. Question one asks us to give the full figure grid reference for a holiday park. Let's find the holiday park. There it is. So that would be grid square 66 and on the bottom and 39 up the side. Question two asks us to give the six figure grid reference for the nature reserve at Ringstead. There's Ringstead Downs and the nature reserve. Remember that with the duck symbol and that is in grid square 69 39, but we've got to give the six figure grid reference for this one. So make sure you've split that grid down. It would be at around 695 399. Question three asks us to name one feature found in grid square 69 38. You can see here that we've got a farm, non coniferous trees. We've got a building, we've got a track. And just above that circle, you can see that we've got a yellow line. This is a minor or secondary road. And question four asks us to name the human feature found at 682 379. We can see it just poking out here. This is a church, or if you want it to be more specific, is a church with a tower. Check that you've got these ideas correct. That brings us to the end of today's lesson, a very short, but hopefully useful lesson that helps you to look at how to use some of those OS map skills, especially grid referencing. Make sure that you keep your notes safe. It's really important that you can come back to this skill and be able to use it in exam papers and in your field work. Please make sure that you do the quizzes associated with today's lesson. But for today, a huge well done.

This quiz will test your knowledge of OS maps. 
Qs 1-5 Credit: © Crown copyright and database rights 2020 [Oak National Academy] under licence to OS.

Which of the following grid references is accurate for Lodge Farm?

What is the 6 figure grid reference for the caravan park south of the holiday park?

Which human feature is shown by this symbol on an OS map?

What physical feature is shown by this OS map symbol?

Which road is found in 67 41?

OS maps

In this lesson, we will look at how to grid reference and describe places using OS maps.

Geography

Y11 Geography

Key Stage 4

Year 11

Miss

Geographical skills

UNIT

Cartographic skills

Graphical skills (Part 1)

Graphical skills (Part 2)

Graphical skills (Part 3)

Fieldwork skills

Statistical skills

An advantage of a choropleth map is...

Which map would be most effective at representing rainfall data?

The line graph shows...

Which of these statistical tests involves finding the middle value in a data set?

The mean of this data set 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 would be....

The range of this data set 7, 11, 24, 37, 68 would be....

Quantitative data is...

An advantage of random sampling is...

Lesson overview:OS maps

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