England today 5 KS1 Geography lessons.

England today: Series of 5 KS1 power-point Geography lessons.
Each lesson is broken into short focused activities. There are opportunities for pupils to recall prior learning, watch a BBC clip, scrutinise and compare population graphs and weather charts (included on slides), use maps and atlases to locate England’s within the UK and identify geographical features. Each set of slides contain images to help pupils ‘get a feel’ for the geography of England.
Great to link with cross curricular topic such as Maps and Plans, United Kingdom, Seaside, All about me, Local Study.
Lesson 1
Learning objectives
To find England in an atlas.
To recognise the key features of England.
To describe the location of England using geographical vocabulary.
Tasks: Atlas and globes needed, country matching activity.
Lesson 2
Learning objectives
To recognise the main geographical (physical) features of England.
To find and label the physical features of England on a map.
To describe the physical features of England using geographical vocabulary.
Tasks: Atlas work, label a map, self-evaluation task.
Lesson 3
Learning Objectives
To identify the different settlements in England.
To describe the characteristics of different English settlements.
Task: Dictionary definition, ordering settlements, worksheet.
Lesson 4
Learning objectives:
To identify the physical features of seaside areas in England and say whether they are natural or human.
To describe the characteristics of different English seaside places.
Task: Identifying seaside features. 2 worksheets.
Lesson 5
Learning Objectives
To know the capital city of England.
To explain what a capital city is.
To identify the physical features of cities in England and say whether they are natural or human.
Tasks: comparing features of different places. Worksheet.