An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
A complete lesson on erosion on the UK coast, teaching the concepts of bays headlands, arches, stacks, stumps, caves and much more. Engaging resource pack with differentiation, answers, videos and animations.
Includes a PowerPoint leading you through the whole lesson and all the necessary resources.
Covers these national curriculum objectives:
- Learn about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments,
- interaction between physical and human processes,
- formation, use of and change of landscapes and environments.
Written for UKS2 but can easily be used by all year 3, 4, 5 and 6.
An engaging starter, mixture of independent, paired and group work.
Plenty of opportunities for class dialogue and for children to share ideas.
Full of interesting images to prompt discussion about geographical features.
An extension activity included to challenge the higher ability.
Plenary available for children to share their learning and present the challenge research.
All reviews welcome.
For more useful and reliable Geography lessons, plans and resources follow the links below:
- Human Impact on Coasts KS2
- UK Coasts Physical Features KS2
- Journey Through Russia, Physical Features KS2
- Scandinavia Unit KS2
- Yosemite National Park Unit KS2
You can also find many more inspiring and engaging KS2 resources for a wide range of subjects at my shop: Teachallenjoy
A word search pack for 3 abilities on Yosemite National Park. Written for KS2 Geography lessons, can be used alongside my 8 lesson unit pack, link below. Useful for filling in time, could take children between 30-50 minutes to complete.
Differentiated for 3 ability levels:
LA - 16 words to find, small images to colour to support reading.
MA -18 words to find, some complex spellings. Colouring border to complete once finished.
HA - 42 words to find, with complex spellings and technical geographical vocabulary.
All key vocabulary for KS2 children learning about this beautiful place.
All answers provided.
Check out my popular geography unit on Yosemite:
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One of seven engaging lessons which bring Scandinavia into the classroom. Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re ready to go.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
This lesson teaches important map skills and an understanding of the world, key continents and oceans.
All resources are included, so just print the map template and detailed lesson plan and your lesson is ready.
All lessons in this unit are designed to link to and extend work in English with challenges linking to English objectives, e.g. persuasive writing features.
All reviews welcome.
To teach Scandinavia throughout the curriculum, download my English and art units:
Scandinavia Art Unit
Scandinavia Story Writing Unit
You can find many more engaging and high quality resources at my Teachallenjoy Shop
The third of seven engaging lessons which bring Scandinavia into the classroom. Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re ready to go.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
This lesson covers these important teaching points:
What physical regions are in Scandinavia? Map analysis
What physical features are in Norway, Denmark and Sweden? Images and explanations for each
Who can remember these? Video analysis for AFL
What have we learnt? Children to show by explaining each map
Which country is this?Children to use their learning to figure out the images
All resources are included, so just print the maps and a detailed lesson plan and your lesson is ready.
All lessons in this unit are designed to link to and extend work in English with challenges linking to English objectives, e.g. persuasive writing features.
All reviews welcome.
To teach Scandinavia throughout the curriculum, download my English and art units:
Scandinavia Art Unit
Scandinavia Story Writing Unit
You can find many more engaging and high quality resources at my Teachallenjoy Shop
The second of seven engaging lessons which bring Scandinavia into the classroom. Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re ready to go.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
This lesson covers these important teaching points:
What are biomes? Definition, images and discussion
Where are different biomes? Map of world to analysis
Which biomes are in Scandinavia? Use a map key to find each biome
What is it like in each biome?Fact cards to show on the screen or print for on desks
What have we learnt? *Children to show by writing postcards home *
How do animals adapt in each biome? Matching challenge activity
All resources are included, so just print the differentiated postcard templates, challenge grids and detailed lesson plan and your lesson is ready.
All lessons in this unit are designed to link to and extend work in English with challenges linking to English objectives, e.g. persuasive writing features.
All reviews welcome.
To teach Scandinavia throughout the curriculum, download my English and art units:
Scandinavia Art Unit
Scandinavia Story Writing Unit
You can find many more engaging and high quality resources at my Teachallenjoy Shop
The final part of seven engaging lessons which bring Scandinavia into the classroom. Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re ready to go.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
This lesson covers these important teaching points:
Who are the Sami people? History of people and discussion
Where do the Sami people live? Map study
What is changing for the Sami people? Video of lifestyle and information
Why has their lifestyle changed? Images and discussion
What does the future look like for the Sami people?Video of opinions
How could we help? Main activity
Which technique have you used? Self assessment challenge task
All resources are included, so just open the video links and print the detailed lesson plan and your lesson is ready.
All lessons in this unit are designed to link to and extend work in English with challenges linking to English objectives, e.g. persuasive writing features.
All reviews welcome.
To teach Scandinavia throughout the curriculum, download my English and art units:
Scandinavia Art Unit
Scandinavia Story Writing Unit
You can find many more engaging and high quality resources at my Teachallenjoy Shop
A complete geography lesson on rivers in Europe. Includes a thorough teaching PowerPoint, interactive activities, worksheets, word bank, extensions, videos and plenary game.
Follow the ready-to-go PowerPoint to teach about identifying, describing and comparing rivers in Europe.
Cover:
What is a river?
How is it formed?
Parts of a river
Rivers on maps of Europe
Europe River facts
What are Fjords?
Planned for years 3 or 4, easily adaptable for years 5 and 6.
Differentiated recording tasks provided so children can label a map of Europe with the main rivers. Includes 3 extensions.
Highlights:
Differentiated
Activities for all styles of learners
Scaffolded learning
Check out my other popular Geography lessons on Europe:
Where is Europe?
Countries of Europe
Compare cities in Europe
Climate of Europe
Mountains of Europe
The fourth of seven engaging lessons which bring Scandinavia into the classroom. Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re ready to go.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
This lesson covers these important teaching points:
Where would people settle in Scandinavia? Map analysis
Why have people settled by the coast, waters and on flat land? Photo study and explanations
What are the capital cities like? Maps and facts to discuss
Where do they source water from? Map study
What natural resources do they trade and how?Children to use fact cards to complete a table
What have you learnt? Logo design task
Can you use your reasoning skills? Challenge pollution task
All resources are included, so just print the fact cards, tables and a detailed lesson plan and your lesson is ready.
All lessons in this unit are designed to link to and extend work in English with challenges linking to English objectives, e.g. persuasive writing features.
All reviews welcome.
To teach Scandinavia throughout the curriculum, download my English and art units:
Scandinavia Art Unit
Scandinavia Story Writing Unit
You can find many more engaging and high quality resources at my Teachallenjoy Shop
A complete geography lesson on the mountains of Europe. Includes a thorough teaching PowerPoint, interactive activities, worksheets, video, extensions and games.
Follow the ready-to-go PowerPoint to teach about the mountain ranges of Europe.
Cover:
Formation
Map work
Climate
Vegetation
Facts
Famous peaks
Planned for years 3 or 4, easily adaptable for years 5 and 6.
Differentiated recording tasks provided with two extensions.
Highlights:
Photo analysis starter activity
Activities for all styles of learners
Scaffolded learning
Check out my other popular Geography lessons on Europe:
Where is Europe? lesson pack
Countries of Europe lesson pack
Compare Cities of Europe lesson pack
Climate of Europe lesson pack
Rivers of Europe lesson pack
A complete lesson on the climate of Europe, focusing on map skills and locational knowledge. Includes a thorough teaching PowerPoint, video links, interactive activities, worksheets, answers, extensions and challenges.
This lesson is ready-to-go, written for a year 3 class, so suitable for years 3 and 4, but easily adaptable for years 5 and 6 (the extension tasks are suitably challenging).
Highlights:
Differentiated
Higher level questioning
Modelling
Scaffolding
Easy to mark
Written as part of a unit on Europe.
Check out my other popular Geography lessons on Europe:
Where is Europe?
Label Countries of Europe Lesson
Compare Cities in Europe
Mountains of Europe
Rivers of Europe
All reviews welcome.
A complete geography lesson teaching the countries of Europe. Includes a thorough teaching PowerPoint, interactive activities, worksheets, answers, extensions and videos.
Follow the ready-to-go PowerPoint to teach about using an atlas, Europe, European languages and flags.
Use the differentiated map worksheets to enable success for every child. Extensions are provided for fast finishers and those hungry for even more.
Highlights:
Interactive
Ready-to-go
Answers on PPT
Editable
Teach as part of a geography unit on Europe. Check out the other lessons:
Where is Europe?
Compare Cities of Europe
Climate of Europe
Mountains of Europe
Rivers of Europe
A complete geography lesson comparing two cities in Europe. Includes a thorough teaching PowerPoint, interactive activities, worksheets, word bank, extensions, videos and plenary.
Follow the ready-to-go PowerPoint to teach about the human and physical features of Bristol and Berlin.
Compare:
Population
City layout
Climate
Landscape
Landmarks
Art and culture
Planned for years 3 or 4, easily adaptable for years 5 and 6.
Differentiated recording tasks provided with an extension.
Highlights:
Photo analysis starter activity
Activities for all styles of learners
Scaffolded learning
Check out my other popular Geography lessons on Europe from the unit:
Where is Europe?
Label Countries of Europe Lesson
Climate of Europe
Mountains of Europe
Rivers of Europe
A detailed and complete lesson, with a 16 slide Europe teaching PowerPoint, starter, input, plenary, scaffolding, differentiated worksheets, extension task and video and geography game links.
Start a Geography unit on Europe with an excellent lesson on the continents of the world, map labelling and cultures of Europe.
All provided in this ready-to-go lesson, to save you time, energy and give you a better teaching to life balance.
Will work with the rest of my unit on Europe, written for Years 3 to 4. Also easily adaptable for years 5 and 6.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular Geography lessons on Europe from the unit:
Label Countries of Europe Lesson
Compare Cities of Europe
Climate of Europe
Mountains of Europe
Rivers of Europe
The sixth part of seven engaging lessons which bring Scandinavia into the classroom. Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re ready to go.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
This lesson covers these important teaching points:
Who are the Scandinavians? Video link explaining Viking history
How do Scandinavians celebrate Christmas? Lesson starter craft activity
What will my mind map look like? Discussion and mind map examples
What makes each country in Scandinavia unique? Fact cards covering food, religion, music, art, festivals, symbols, royalty, language and immigration
How are these elements linked?Discussion of ideas
Which time zone is Scandinavia in? Challenge task
Who is from Scandinavia? Famous person research extra challenge task
All resources are included, so just print the fact cards if you’d like and a detailed lesson plan and your lesson is ready.
All lessons in this unit are designed to link to and extend work in English with challenges linking to English objectives, e.g. persuasive writing features.
All reviews welcome.
To teach Scandinavia throughout the curriculum, download my English and art units:
Scandinavia Art Unit
Scandinavia Story Writing Unit
You can find many more engaging and high quality resources at my Teachallenjoy Shop
The fifth of seven engaging lessons which bring Scandinavia into the classroom. Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re ready to go.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
This lesson covers these important teaching points:
What resources do they have in Scandinavia to create energy? Energy summaries
How else do they create energy? Burning waste videos
Where do they farm? Why? Maps and facts to discuss
What do they export each year? List of statistics for task
How do we draw a bar graph?Animated model with 5 helpful tips
What have you learnt? Bar chart task
Can we improve our energy sources in the UK? Challenge task
How else do they transport people and goods? Plenary discussion
All resources are included, so just print the fact cards, a detailed lesson plan find some graph paper and your lesson is ready.
All lessons in this unit are designed to link to and extend work in English with challenges linking to English objectives, e.g. persuasive writing features.
All reviews welcome.
To teach Scandinavia throughout the curriculum, download my English and art units:
Scandinavia Art Unit
Scandinavia Story Writing Unit
You can find many more engaging and high quality resources at my Teachallenjoy Shop
One of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 41 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video links, scaffolded worksheets and extensions.
Highlights:
Covers KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives.
No preparation necessary, ready-to-go.
Engage, challenge and inspire!
This lesson teaches important map skills and an understanding of the world, including hemispheres, key continents, countries, states, climate, land formation and oceans.
All resources are included, so just print the map templates, check out the detailed lesson plan and your lesson is ready.
All lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Focused on learning objectives from the new curriculum:
Human and physical geography
describe and understand key aspects of:
physical geography, including: climate zones, rivers
mountain ranges
Understand technical vocabulary:
latitude, longitude, Equator,
hemispheres, tropics, polar circles & time zones
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular Geography units and lessons:
Scandinavia
Russia
Europe
The seventh of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 39 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video links, scaffolded worksheets and extensions.
This lesson teaches the 2 biomes that Yosemite is in and the 5 vegetation zones found in the park.
Highlights:
Covers KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives.
No preparation necessary, ready-to-go.
Engage, challenge and inspire!
Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re all set.
All lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Focused on learning objectives from the new Geography curriculum:
Describe and understand key aspects of human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular lesson on this topic:
Scandinavia Biomes
The third of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 27 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video links, scaffolded worksheets and extensions.
This lesson teaches how the physical features of Yosemite were formed, covering volcanoes, glaciers, ice age, dams, rivers and more.
Highlights:
Covers KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives.
No preparation necessary, ready-to-go.
Engage, challenge and inspire!
Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re all set.
All lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Focused on learning objectives from the new Geography curriculum:
Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular Geography units:
Scandinavia Unit
Europe Unit
The last of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 27 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video link, scaffolded worksheets and extensions.
This lesson teaches why people go to the park, what they can see and do there and why this can be a problem.
Highlights:
Covers KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives.
No preparation necessary, ready-to-go.
Engage, challenge and inspire!
Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re all set.
All lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Focused on learning objectives from the new Geography curriculum:
Describe and understand key aspects of human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular Geography lessons:
Journey through Russia
Human Impact on Coasts
Geography Report Comments
The sixth of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 24 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video links, scaffolded worksheets and extensions.
This lesson teaches why the dam was built at Yosemite and covers different opinions for and against the dam and reservoir.
Highlights:
Covers KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives.
No preparation necessary, ready-to-go.
Engage, challenge and inspire!
Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re all set.
All lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Focused on learning objectives from the new Geography curriculum:
Describe and understand key aspects of human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular lessons on water in Geography:
Rivers in Europe
UK Coastal Erosion