Comparing the UK and Italy - Settlements, Resources and Trade!

This clear and purposeful lessons enables children to begin making comparisons between the UK and Italy, as a part of their KS2 geography study.

In this lesson, children learn about the different types of ‘settlements’ before comparing different settlements in the UK and Italy. They consider how the reasons for the formation of settlements is often linked to resources and trade. The lesson includes a 17 slide PowerPoint presentation, guiding learners through the lesson, and a research template for the main activity (provided in both Word and PDF).

The lesson is a part of a series of lessons designed to help children to learn the relevant place, human and physical geography knowledge from the KS2 Geography National Curriculum: -‘understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a region of the United Kingdom and a region in a European country;’
‘physical geography, including: climate zones, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes;’
-‘human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy.’

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