Your Local Area: Shops

Local surroundings can tell us a lot about how people live. They show us where people work and go to school, where they shop, how they travel and how they spend their leisure time. In this book you’ll snoop around the shops of different neighbourhoods, hunting for clues about the folk who live nearby. You’ll head to malls and markets, look for hairdressers and greengrocers, and head out of town to a retail park. You’ll even think about how people lived and shopped in the past. All in a colourful book full of facts, questions and ideas for surveys and projects to do.

• Hands-on geography that gets kids looking around their local area

• Stimulates curiosity and builds children’s sense of community

• Full of activities, project ideas and clues for learners to look for

• Includes maps, charts and examples of how to record findings