I am currently a year 3 teacher and English lead.
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I am currently a year 3 teacher and English lead.
I endeavour to only publish resources which have been well thought out to match curriculum objectives and hope that they will be useful to other colleagues saving them time wherever possible.
Explore the history and geography of Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii using these 2 activity mats. These worksheets are useful for both topics on the Romans, or topics on volcanoes/earthquakes and reinforce tier 2/3 vocabulary such as: archaeologist, primary and secondary (sources).
The first video link shows an animation of ‘A Day in Pompeii’ which has no narration just powerful imagery of what happend that day in 79AD.
There is also a second link showing and describing the lost city of Pompeii.
These worksheets are fully editable and are also available as part of a bundle of Romans activities which includes a full class assembly on Boudicca’s rebellion, or as part of a bundle on ‘Natural Hazards’ which contains a range of resources to support topics on volcanoes and earthquakes.
Save a whopping 57% on individual resources with this ‘Natural Hazards’ bundle of activity sheets.
This bundle contains a selection of sheets designed to develop children’s atlas and mapping skills as well as their knowledge and understanding of how earthquakes happen, patterns in where earthquakes happen and how they are measured. It also includes a mapping and research activity on locating famous volcanoes around the world revising countries and continents and reinforcing certain tier 3 vocabulary.
There is also a comprehension about Pompeii and a whole lesson related to Pompeii including video links and activity mats.
A trio of activity sheets to be used after the introduction of earthquakes alongside a visual of tectonic plates and earthquake ‘hotspots’ to allow children to investigate for themselves patterns in where earthquakes happen and how earthquakes are measured.
Great fun to play an earthquake siren whilst they are working so they can practice the earthquake drill!
This collection of activity sheets first considers how a volcano is formed, labelling the parts of a volcano and focusing on tier 3 technical vocabulary. (I did this after showing a powerpoint on volcanoes as well as some video clips of volcanoes erupting/timelapse lava flow).
Then locate some major volcanoes around the world using the given map and accompanying sheet (alongside ipads/laptops for internet use and atlases with world maps/maps of continents).
NB: The first 6 minutes 45 seconds of the BBC programme ‘Africa with Ade Adepitan’ is fantastic for that wow factor and introducing the idea of volcanoes around the world. It even includes a scene showing where volcanic rock has burst through the walls of someone’s house!
Tip: Mount Etna is in Sicily, but Sicily is an autonomous region of Italy.
Save 62% on individual resources with this collection of Roman themed resources.
This bundle includes various activities on the Romans in Britain such as how to investigate artefacts, the spread of the Roman Empire and the legacy of Romans in Britain.
It also contains a whole class assembly on the story of Boudicca’s rebellion.
In addition, there is a whole lesson on Pompeii including video links and activity mats to complete as well as a comprehension on the destruction of Pompeii.
It also includes a cross curricular lesson on the theme of slavery linking this to the KS2 RE unit on Judaism and to British Values and the fundamental importance of individual liberty.
This worksheet considers topographical features of the children’s home county using their knowledge of human and physical features plus their atlas/map skills and knowledge of the points of the compass to answer questions.
NB: Can be edited to own county. An atlas with a clear map of chosen county/region is needed.
A selection of map skills worksheets and activities including: a fun way to revise the continents by solving the clues, a cut and stick activity sorting some key physical and human features of the UK into geographical regions (with links to landmarks/features from historical periods e.g. Stone Age/Romans) and using maps and the 8 points of the compass to locate, and answer questions, about the counties of the UK.
Tips: County map is clearer if enlarged to A3 and worksheets are editable so can be adapted.
Cut, sort and stick the different physical and human characteristics of different counties into the correct place on the grid. Use children’s own general knowledge, maps/atlases and the internet to identify in which county each feature is.
Use the map and points of the compass to answer questions about the counties of the UK.
Best enlarged onto A3 so that the map is clearer. Can obviously be edited to link with your own county and its features.
Use atlas skills and points of the compass to solve the clues and identify/label the world’s continents. Great for LKS2 as a fresh way of revising the KS1 locational knowledge objective of naming and locating the 7 continents and 5 oceans of the world.
