7 activities to support the understanding of the Naples and Campania Region as part of a location study aimed at Keystage 2 children. Activity 1: Where is Italy? Activity 2: The Regions of Italy Activity 3: Base Map of Naples and the Campania Region Activity 4: Reading Train Timetables: Circumvesuviana line table (The train around the Bay of Naples). Activity 5: Holiday Brochure Activity 6: Understanding Volcanoes- The Vesuvius Crater Activity 7: A Section Through a Volcano. Leave a review

Lesson Plan: How to identify different types of buildings Learning objectives Children should learn: • that a locality includes a range of types of building; • about the function or significance of some buildings in their own locality; • how to annotate maps. Success criteria Children can: • annotate a simple route map Taken from LCP’s KS1 Geography Resource File

2 lessons covering UK Counties and Major Cities Lesson 1: Counties in the UK Learning objectives Children should learn: • the UK is divided into countries and counties. Success criteria Children can: • understand that the countries in the UK are divided into counties and can name some of the counties. Lesson 2: Major Cities in the UK Learning objectives Children should learn: • about the major cities in the UK. Success criteria Children can: • understand that there are a number of major cities in the UK and can name and locate them. Taken from LCP’s LKS2 Geography Resource File

1 lesson plan with resource sheets Learning objectives Children learn: • the names of the continents; • the names of the oceans; • the difficulties of representing the globe on a map. Success criteria Children should be able to: • name and locate the seven continents and five oceans Skills and processes Locational knowledge: • Name and locate the seven continents and five oceans. Human and physical geography: • Recognise the Equator and North and South Poles. Geographical skills and fieldwork: • Use a globe to identify continents and oceans. Taken from LCP’s KS1 Geography Resource File

1 lesson covering the distinction between human and physical features Includes Worksheets Learning objectives Children can: • distinguish human from physical features in the landscape; • begin to understand that the distinction between human and physical is not always clear. Success criteria Children should be able to • recognise physical and human features in the environment; • use geographical vocabulary to describe physical and human features Taken from LCP’s KS1 Geography Resource File

3 lessons including lesson plans and resources- What and where is Europe? This has been written as two lessons as there is so much to learn about Europe. Lesson 1 will be the introduction, finding out about the continent as a whole, whilst Lesson 2 will concentrate on Europe related knowledge. The interactive games may be played in both lesson. Lesson 1:What and where is Europe Learning objectives Children should learn: • to begin to identify countries in Europe and their major cities. Success criteria Children can: • locate and understand that Europe is a continent that has a number of countries and a range of major cities Lesson 3: Regions in Europe Learning objectives Children should learn: • countries and capital cities in Europe; • to work together to design a tour of a region of Europe. Success criteria Children can: • understand that Europe is a continent that has a number of countries and can produce a tour of a region in a country in this continent. Taken from LCP’s LKS2 Geography Resource File

Learning Outside the Classroom from LCP is a cross curricular resource providing teachers with fun outdoor activities and great ideas to engage KS2 (years 3, 4, 5 & 6) . This free outdoor learning resource pack takes a look at some of the subjects covered in Learning Outside the Classroom. A great intro or perfect to use on their own! Download and take a look. • Local Area as a Learning Environment • Iron Age • Collecting Invertebrates Also see KS1 Learning Outside the Classroom.

1x lesson with worksheets Learning objectives Children should learn: • about the physical and human features of the seaside; • further develop their map and atlas skills. Success criteria Children can: • identify human and physical features of the seaside;use geographical vocabulary to talk about the seaside; • use maps/atlases/Internet to locate seaside places Taken from LCP’s KS1 Geography Resource File

2 part lesson covering contours and relief specifically aimed at Year 3 pupils. Includes lesson plans and resource sheets Lesson 1: Learning objectives Children should understand: • contours show the shape of the land (relief); • how sea level is measured. Success criteria Children can: • begin to understand how relief (the shape of the land) is shown on OS maps; • understand how sea level is assessed. Lesson 2: Learning objectives Children should understand: • there are two ways of representing height on an OS map; • contours show the shape of the land (relief); • layer colouring is a third way of showing relief on maps. Success criteria Children can: • state how high above sea level a particular feature is on an OS map; • begin to understand how height and relief are shown on OS maps. Taken from LCP’s LKS2 Geography Resource File

Taken from our UKS2 WW1 Resources File. This is Unit 5. There are six units available for Upper Key Stage 2, each focusing on different curriculum subjects but also designed to complement one another to support cross-curricular planning. An overview, in the form of a Planning Chart, is also included. Each unit contains Activity ideas packed with facts, suggestions for different abilities and for working both in and out of the classroom, one Activity sheet, two Visual resources and a photocopiable Factsheet. Supporting the units are two Timelines, a World War I Glossary and two Maps of Europe showing how the geographical landscape and country boundaries changed as a result of the war. Lesson 1:A guide to Leper Lesson 2:The impact of the landscape Lesson 3: Belgium then and now Lesson 4: The creation of new countries Lesson 5:Here and there Lesson 6: Can you find your way around Leper? Lesson 7:National pride Leave a review

The purpose of this lesson is: to discover why the landscape was crucial in the life of the ancient Egyptians Children should learn: • to make deductions about life in the past from pictures of the landscape; • how much of the life of Egypt depended on the Nile. Class objective: • to discover the importance of the River Nile in ancient Egypt. Children should be able to: • extract information about the landscape from pictures; • provide answers that show the relationship between the geography of Egypt and the way of life in the past Includes Lesson Plan and Activity sheets where required

4 lessons focusing on how to locate their school Lesson 1: Who lives where? Learning objectives Children should learn: • that some children live far away from school while others live nearby and everyone travels different distances; • how to measure and compare the distance of the routes used by the children in their class. Lesson 2: The journey to school Learning objectives Children should learn: • that everyone travels to school in different ways; • how to design and carry out a survey; • to draw a simple graph; • how to analyse their findings. Lesson 3: Where is the school? Learning objectives Children should learn: • a sense of place: the relationship between home and school; • to draw a picture map Lesson 4: Describing my route to school Learning objectives Children should learn: • to describe geographical features on their route to school; • to compile a personal word bank of geographical terms; • to give descriptive directions using adjectives. Taken from LCP’s KS1 Geography Resource File Leave a review

Get all 5 sheets from our TES shop A worksheet on the Watercycle. Written for Year 4. Taken from KS2 Geography Resources File. Downloadable as a PDF Leave a review

Taken from our Geography Flipbook Activities Keystage 2 Years5&6 This unit contains Water Flipbook page 1: WaterAid at work Flipbook page 2:Improving water supplies The resource includes one page of teacher’s notes for every page in the flipbook,and each one includes learning objectives and outcomes,key questions and activity ideas.There are many suggestions on how to use the relevant flipbook page and associated activity sheet. Learning Objective: Children should learn: • to understand that people in less economically developed countries may not have access to safe, clean water supplies Learning outcomes: Children will be able to: • appreciate some of the problems associated with water supply • understand that important decisions about water use have to be made

5 worksheets to inspire learning and encourage geographical curiosity both at home or at school. Available as PDF to print. Designed for Year 4. These worksheets include: Mapping Puddles Invesitagion Soaking up Water Investigation Regional Study: East Anglia The Water Cycle Rainfall in the UK Leave a review

5 worksheets to inspire learning and encourage geographical curiosity both at home or at school. Available as PDF to print. Designed for Year 3. These worksheets include: Instructions and templates to make a cardboard contours island (2 sheets) River bend investigation River speed investigation Understanding Cities in the UK.

5 Lessons including resources and lesson plans Lesson 1: Where does water come from? Learning objectives Children should learn to: • recognise the processes which make up the water cycle; • sequence the components of the water cycle; • see that human uses of water are also part of the water cycle. Lesson 2: Where does water go? Learning objectives Children should learn to: • understand what happens to rainfall when it reaches the ground; • undertake investigations in the field Lesson 3: Weather around the world Learning objectives Children should learn to: • investigate places; • locate places using an atlas; • describe what places are like in terms of weather conditions; • understand that different places experience different weather/climate Lesson 4: Where are hot and cold places found around the world? Learning objectives Children should learn:. • to recognise broad global climate patterns; • about weather and climate conditions around the world Lesson 5: Climate Patterns Learning objectives Children should learn to: • describe the main climate patterns; Taken from LCP’s LKS2 Geography Resource File

5 worksheets to inspire learning and encourage geographical curiosity both at home or at school. Focused on a location study: South Wales. Taken from Keystage 2 Geography Resource File. Available as PDF to print. These worksheets include: Rainfall and Temperature in the UK worksheet Climate Statistics in Cardiff Types of Coal The Railway Children Comprehension Reading a Map (Distrubition of Iron and Steel in South Wales)

In this unit children find out about the way people lived in the ancient Greek empire. They use a range of archaeological and written sources, select and record information and interpret the past in different ways. It is helpful if the children have: learnt about the way of life of people from different cultures who lived in the distant past; considered some of the attitudes and values of people living in the distant past, their motives and the results of their actions; used artefacts and pictures as sources of information. Includes: Contents Introduction Medium-term plan Preparatory information Useful websites about the Greeks Lesson 1 Greece today Lesson 2 Ancient Greek city states Lesson 3 Athens and Sparta Lesson 4 Triremes and hoplites Lesson 5 The battle of Marathon Lesson 6 Who did the ancient Greeks worship? Lesson 7 Theseus and the Minotaur Lesson 8 Ancient Greek theatre Lesson 9 The play’s the thing Lesson 10 The modern Olympic Games Lesson 11 The ancient Olympic Games Lesson 12 What we know about the ancient Greeks Picture Prompt sheets All lesson plans and activity sheets included. Not sure? See our free download on Ancient Greek Theatre

This pack includes 6 worksheets: Understanding the difference between the British Isles, United Kingdom and Great Britain. Make Your Own Wind Vane Investigating Weather Physical or Human features Understanding where food comes from From LCP KS1 Geography Resource File The purpose of Geography is: • to develop a knowledge and understanding of place on a local, regional and global scale, of the interconnections between places, of the significance of location, of human and physical environments, of people–environment relationships, and of the causes and consequences of change; • to develop the skills needed to undertake geographical investigations (enquiry, map work, photographs and image interpretation • to stimulate interest in, and to encourage an appreciation of, the world around us (environmental, social and cultural awareness); • to develop an informed concern for the world around us and an ability to take positive action (citizenship and sustainability).