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
Lesson: My school address
Learning objectives
Children should learn:
• that everyone has a personal address;
• the significance of addresses, including the
school address.
Success criteria
Children can:
understand the importance of knowing addresses
particularly of their school
Taken from LCP’s KS1 Geography 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)
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
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
2 full lessons with resources, flipbook and worksheets
1st lesson:
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • that rocks and natural materials are chosen for particular purposes because of their characteristics
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • relate the use of some rocks and natural materials to their characteristics and say why they are used
Lesson focuses on describing the use of material in buildings.
Do you recognise this building? Try to describe it. • Describe the main building material(s) that was (were) used to make this building. • Are the materials natural or man-made? If the materials are man-made, what do you think the original material was? (e.g. glass is made from sandstone/silica) • Why do you think these materials have been chosen?
2nd lesson:
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • about planning a fair test and using results to draw conclusions
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • explain whether a simple test is fair and what the results indicate
Lesson focuses which rock is the most permeable?
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2 lessons with plans and resources
Taken from our Year 5 and 6 Geography Flipbook
Lesson 1: Making Waste Work
Learning objectives Children should learn: • to investigate a local environmental issue • about issues associated with landfill sites
Learning outcomes Children will be able to: • understand how change affects the local area • communicate opinions on landfill sites
Activity: You are going to make a written proposal to ask the headteacher to give you permission to start a recycling scheme.
Lesson 2: Recycling
Learning objectives Children should learn: • about the types of rubbish we throw away • about the need for recycling in order to reduce rubbish
Learning outcomes Children will be able to: • understand the difference between re-use and recycling • discuss what needs to be considered when setting up a recycling scheme
Activity:Imagine that you are an education officer for Friends of the Earth. You are against the proposal for a new landfill site in the local area. • Design a T-shirt for children to wear in the campaign against a new landfill site.
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1 lesson plan with resources
Called: Going somewhere new
– How will we get there?
Learning Objective
Children should learn:
• about the types of transport used to get to
places;
• to use atlases, internet maps and globes.
Success criteria
Children can:
• use atlases, internet maps and globes to plan
routes
Taken from LCP’s KS1 Geography Resource File
Lesson: Celebrating the local area- Designing a trail
Learning objectives
Children should learn:
• how to design a trail that celebrates their local
area;
• to work in pairs to review and redraft their
work.
Success criteria
Children can:
• work with a partner to devise a successful trail
which can be readily followed with clear starting
and finishing points, with a set of precise
direction to help find one’s way.
Taken from LCP’s KS1 Geography Resource File
3 lessons covering:
The Compass
How to use the compass
Directional language
Includes Lesson plans and work sheets
Lesson 1: The Compass and its uses
Learning objectives
Children should learn:
• the names of simple compass directions;
• simple locational language;
• to describe the location of features on a map
Lesson 2: Using the Compass
Learning objectives
Children should learn:
• the names of simple compass directions;
• simple locational language;
• to use simple maps;
• to plot a route on the ground.
Lesson 3: Using directional language
Learning objectives
Children can:
• begin to confidently use directional language.
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
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
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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
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
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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