🏞️Physical Features in My Community

📍Discovering the Land Around Us

✅ What Will You Learn?
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
✅ List different physical features in your area.
✅ Draw a simple sketch map of your surroundings.
✅ Say how people use each feature.
✅ Explain why physical features matter to your community.

🌍 What Are Physical Features?

Physical features are the natural and man-made parts of the land that we can see or touch. Some are created by nature 🌳, while others are made by people 👷🏽‍♀️.

🌿 Natural features (made by nature):

• 🏔️ Hills

• 🏜️ Sand dunes

• 🌊 Rivers

• 🏞️ Valleys

• 🏝️ Deltas

• 💦 Springs

• 🪨 Rocks

• 🕳️ Caves

🏗️ Man-made features (made by people):

• 🛣️ Roads

• 🌉 Bridges

• 🏢 Buildings

• 💧 Dams

🧱 How Do We Use Physical Features?

🟦 Rivers – used for water, fishing, watering crops, and sometimes for transport.
🟫 Hills – some are used for farming, others for stone or sand for building.
🟨 Dams – store water for homes, farms, and animals.
🟩 Sand dunes – used for tourism or collecting sand for construction.
🟥 Valleys – often used for farming because they have rich soil.
🟪 Bridges – help us cross rivers and other obstacles.
⬜ Roads – help people and vehicles travel from one place to another.
🏘️ Buildings – provide homes, schools, shops, and offices.

🗺️ Let’s Draw a Map!

You can draw a simple sketch map of your community!

🧭 Include:

• A compass (🧭) to show direction: North, South, East, West.

• Symbols for features (e.g., 🌊 = river, 🏔️ = hill, ⛪ = building).

• A key/legend to explain your symbols.

• Natural and man-made features around your home or school.

🌟 Why Are Physical Features Important?

✨ They help us in many ways:

• 💧 Give us resources like water, fish, and building sand.

• 👷🏽‍♂️ Create jobs like farming, fishing, and tour guiding.

• 💰 Bring money through tourism (e.g., tourists visit the Okavango Delta 🐘).

• 🌅 Make our land beautiful and special.

• 🧭 Help us know where places are (e.g., "The school is north of the hill.")

💬 Let’s Think Together!

• Which physical features can you see from where you live?

• How do people in your community use them?

• Why should we take care of natural features?

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