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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1 lesson Plan: The geography of the United Kingdom and its surrounding sea All worksheets included. Learning objectives Children should learn: • the names of the countries of the UK; • the names of the four capital cities of the UK; • to identify characteristics of the four countries and capital cities. Success criteria Children should be able to: • name the countries of the UK; • name the four capital cities of the UK; • identify characteristics of the four countries and capital cities Lesson taken from LCP’s KS1 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

This lesson explores more deeply one of the five pillars discussed in the last lesson: prayer or salah. Islamic prayer takes place five times a day, each time taking about ten minutes. These compulsory prayers help Muslims keep God at the front of their thoughts and keep them from doing bad deeds. Other prayers also take place at any time and these are called du’a and are often more personal prayers. The thinking skills strategy of fact or opinion will be used in this lesson. This strategy is used when material is controversial, such as the idea of a religious belief. It encourages people to think about what is a fact, a belief or an opinion. Learning objective Learning about: • To understand the importance of regular prayer in a Muslim’s life; and to understand the beliefs that teach the importance of regular prayer. Learning from: • To understand that what is truth to one religion, may be considered to be an opinion to another group of people. Success criteria Learning about: • Pupils will be able to explain the importance of prayer in the life of a Muslim and discuss how prayer improves the life of a Muslim. Learning from: • Pupils will have considered facts and opinions about prayers and be able to express their own views about how different people might categorise beliefs.

This is a whole-term unit containing 12 lessons, with the first six lessons focusing on the beliefs that many Muslims hold, and the following six lessons looking at ‘belonging’ in the Islamic faith. As part of this unit of work, it will be necessary to visit a mosque and invite in a visitor from the Muslim community. If it is impossible to visit a mosque in your locality, use an online virtual tour. Learning within this unit will be enhanced if examples of artefacts are available for pupils to experience. Prior learning: Although there may not have been systematic teaching on Islam before this unit, pupils should have studied rites of passage within Islam and Muslim views of creation. Lesson length: The lessons are designed to last approximately 75 minutes Lessons consist of: 1 The final prophet of Islam 2 The Bilal mystery 3 The five pillars of Islam 4 Islamic Prayer 5 The Qur’an 6 Good advice 7 A mosque 8 Hajj 9 What is Zakah 10 Fasting and Feasting 11 Should Ahmed go to war? 12 Learning from Islam

The lesson begins by recapping on the shared values of marriage, and then begins to explore these through the Jewish ceremony. The main teaching point of this lesson is how a wedding ceremony is a public display of a personal decision. By sharing their intentions and beliefs with their friends and family, believers have the support to do what they believe is right, even when things are tough. The lesson gives people the opportunity to draw parallels with their own public lives and the values which they demonstrate. Before teaching the lesson, you will need to find a video of a Jewish wedding ceremony. Ensure that you have had a chance to watch the video and that all equipment is working correctly Learning objective • To understand why Jewish believers get married and the public ceremony that celebrates this. Success criteria Learning about: • Pupils will know some key features of Jewish wedding ceremonies. Learning from: • Pupils will have reflected on the consequences of making vows in public and what making them says about the decisions the believer has made. Like this? See the full Unit on either TES or our website

This unit addresses the topic of marriage in a way that is appropriate for Key Stage 2 pupils. It begins by looking in general terms at the idea of love and relationships, then goes on to explore how some of the major religions allow believers to make a lifelong commitment to their partner and how God’s blessing on this is represented in a marriage ceremony. Non-religious commitment is also discussed and addressed. The individual circumstances of anyone in your class for whom this is a sensitive topic should be considered and discussed with their carers if appropriate. You will need to source video clips of Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh marriage ceremonies to enhance the teaching of the lessons. Prior learning: It is likely that pupils will have studied friendship, families and perhaps other relationships that are special to them. However, no specific knowledge is required to access the unit. Lesson length: The lessons are designed to last approximately 75 minutes. 7 lesson unit includes all lesson plans and resource sheets Lesson 1: Relationships Lesson 2: Love Lesson 3: Christian Weddings Lesson 4: Jewish Weddings Lesson 5: Arranged Marriage Lesson 6: Sikh Wedding Lesson 7: When relationships go wrong

About this unit This unit looks at what it means to belong to something, whether it be a community, class, club, country, team, family, circle of friends and so on, and the need to show that belonging through joint activities or lifestyle, dress or behaviour. The unit explores belonging to: • a family • a school • other groups • the local community • our country • the world. People of particular life stances or groups will be valuable in sharing their experiences and showing any clothing and artefacts that signal their belonging and pride in that. Where opportunities arise for adding this feature to the lessons, make the most of them! Lesson length: Each lesson is designed to take one hour. (Lesson 3 will take longer if the group works outside to gather photographs.) Expectations At the end of this unit most children will: • understand the importance people attach to belonging to a group, and be able to name a religious and secular group. Some children will have made less progress and will: • be able to talk about the groups they belong to. Some children will have progressed further and will: • be able to explain why people belong to religious groups, naming some

Lesson Bonfire night Learning objective • To know about a common celebration that was originally linked with religion Success criteria • To understand that this celebration has lost its original meaning, but can still be meaningful today Includes Lesson Plan and Activity Sheet