The Geography Detective Investigates provides a question and answer approach to key geography concepts at Key Stage 2. Each title contains focus boxes to provide further insight into the subject and detective boxes that encourage students to perform a variety of simple experiments and projects. Villages looks at the landmarks, types of houses, services and traditions found in villages, and how these settlements have changed over time.

 

This book features in the following series: Geography Detective Inve, The Geography Detective Investigates .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 2. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by Hachette Children's Group .

Ruth Jenkins has a degree in geography from Cambridge University. She is a teacher of geography at a secondary school in South London.

This book has the following chapters: 1. What is a village? 2. How are villages laid out? 3. What types of houses are there? 4. What landmarks can you find in villages? 5. What are village schools like? 6. What services are there? 7. What jobs do people do? 8. What traditions do villagers celebrate? 9. What plants and animals live in villages? 10. How do villages change? 11. What is Wharram Percy? 12. What is the future for villages? 13. Your project