Extension Work

• From the City Life section, compare each Belfast or Mexico City child's response to question 1, 2, etc.
  
  
• From the Fact File's Past & Future section, compare the adults' responses to the questions.
  
  
• Identify and explore particular issues raised by the adults.
  
  
• Identify and explore issues about pupils' own local area.
  
  
• Visit  http://www2.drdni.gov.uk/roads/traffic/Cameras.htm  (download Windows' free media player if necessary) and view Belfast from 4 traffic cameras.
  
  
• Compare Belfast with Mexico City and children's own local area.
  
  
• Explore the Fact File.
  
  
• Create a 'City Tour' for pupils' own local area.
  
  
• Find out about pupils' own capital city and make a website/story board about it.

• Noting events happening in cities around the world - sporting, natural disasters, political, etc. - possibly using QCA unit 16: 'What's in the news?' in a global sense.
  
  
• Recording (with photographs, postcards, other artefacts) and reporting on their own visits to cities, including answering the questions: What's it like to visit this city?; What does/did it feel like? (including the sights, sounds, tastes and smells); What would it be like to live here?
  
  
• Encouraging children to make (capital) city scrapbooks.