Prepared for Year 5 students, this unit covers the following aspects of the topic, “South America”
Location
Countries
Important Cities
Physical Features
Climate Zones
Natural Biomes
Human Geography
Human Geography – Mining and Industry
Human Activities – Agriculture
Each aspect is presented with power point slides and there is follow up in the form of worksheet activities.
I used this for Year 5 & 6 (Grades 4 to 6). I used it after the unit on South America but it could be used first.
There are twelve lessons, each with power point slides and worksheets.
Lesson topics:
Location
Natural Physical Feature
Important Lakes
Important Rivers
Climate
Natural Vegetation and Wild life
Countries of North America
The people of North America (human population)
Mining Resources
Agricultural (Farming) Resources
Manufacturing Industry
Economy
EXTREME EARTH is a fourteen-lesson unit introducing and illustrating extreme weather phenomenon, the causes and effects.
Topics include:
Earth’s unstable crust
Mountains
Pushing, buckling bending and sliding – Mountain Formation
Earthquakes
Tsunamis
Volcanoes
Geysers and hot springs
Weather and climate
Tornadoes
Hurricanes, Typhoons and Cyclones
Drought
Floods
Earth’s Ice Ages and Extinction Periods
Global Warming and Climate change
The unit includes power point presentations and worksheets for each topic.
CLIMATE ZONES AND THEIR NATURAL VEGETATION is a unit of ten lessons. It explores climate zones around the world, their location, natural vegetation and has a brief look at the animal life sustained.
Each lesson has power point slides and worksheets.
This unit satisfies the over-arching curriculum objectives:
• I can name and locate countries I am learning about.
• I can explain how the location of different European countries affects the climate.
• I can name and locate the major cities of Europe on a map.
• I can name and locate countries of Europe and explain where they are in relation to one another.
The unit consists of seven lessons with power point slides and activities covering the following topics:
The United Kingdom and the European mainland
Locating the countries of Europe
The physical characteristics of Europe
The natural environment of Europe
The human characteristics
Important cities and their characteristics
European Russia
This set of power Point presentations and worksheets should be used with your rock and soil samples to enable students:
to visualise how the three types of rocks are formed and relate this to the rock samples they have
to compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties
to recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter.
to explore different soils and identify similarities and differences between them and
to investigate what happens when rocks are rubbed together
The lessons are:
Sedimentary Rock
Igneous Rock
Metamorphic Rock
Grouping and Sorting Rocks - colour
Grouping and Sorting Rocks – lustre
Grouping and Sorting Rocks - hardness
Grouping and Sorting Rocks - cleavage
Grouping and Sorting Rocks – minerals and crystals
What is Soil?
Ten lessons helping students understand the difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and The British Isles, geography and governance.
Lessons topics include:
Separation from Europe
Nations of the British Isles
Capital Cities of British Isles
Seas, Rivers, and Lakes
Plains, Hills, and Mountains
Weather and Climate
Natural vegetation and wild life
The Population Distribution
Human Activities
Governing the United Kingdom
There are power point slides and worksheet activities aimed at year 3 / 4 students.
This unit, used mainly with Year 7/8 consists of twelve lessons. Each lesson has slides to guide the lesson and activities in worksheet form. The unit covers the topics:
The African Continent
Important African Cities
Major Rivers and the Great Lakes
Mountain Ranges
Climate Zones
Deserts and semi deserts
Natural vegetation and wild life
The people of Africa
African Politics
Agriculture
Mining and Industry
African economy
This comprehensive unit on Rivers presents the following topics through power point slides:
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The forming of a river
A river’s journey
The water cycle
Rivers sustaining life
River settlements
River transport
River power
Some great rivers of the world
The slides are interspersed with learning activities which can be completed on the corresponding worksheets.
NATURAL RESOURCES is a good unit to help students understand the different aspects of our natural resources and the dangers of the demands. Presented with a set of slides for each of eight lessons, the interspersed activities give students an opportunity to engage with the ideas presented.
Topics include:
Understanding natural resources
Renewable and non-renewable resources
Using natural resources for energy
Benefits of trees as a natural resource
Human’s increasing demand for resources
Farming Activities
Mining and Minerals
Sustainability of natural resources
Earth’s Continents is a six-part unit, used mainly with Year Four. It includes the following topics:
Land formation
The formation of the earth’s continents
Continent of Eurasia
Continents of North and South America
Antarctica, Africa and Australasia
Sub-continents
Each topic is presented using power point slides and has worksheet activities.
Using power point slides, this unit aims to guide students to identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, the Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, the Arctic and Antarctic Circle, the Prime/Greenwich Meridian and time zones.
The topic is broken down into seven lessons, each with its own slides and activities on a worksheet. It has been used with students aged 7 to 9.
his unit on the Geography of India is presented using power point slides. There are activities interspersed at appropriate intervals in the slides. These can be completed by the students on the corresponding worksheets. The power point slides are duplicated in note form for the students.
The unit covers the following topics:
Position of India
Important Cities in India
Physical Geography
Climate
Rivers of India
Vegetation and wild life
Population of India
People and Government
Mining and Industry
Communication and Transport
Agriculture
Economic Challenges
Human Settlement is described using power point slides interspersed with worksheet activities.
Topics covered:
The Earliest Humans
Site and Situation of early human settlements
Urban, suburban and rural communities
Migration
Settlement sizes
Settlement patterns
The Function of Human Settlements
This unit is suitable for early KS 2
FARMS and FACTORIES -OUR FOOD SOURCES, includes the following topics
Types of food our bodies need
The geography of food
Changes in the food we eat
Sourcing our food
The distance food travels
Making our food
World food supplies
The future and food production
Each topic is a lesson sized piece of the unit. Power point slides are used to present the ideas. There are printable notes and activities for the students.