Year 4- Geography- 5 Lessons- Water Cycle and Weather

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