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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Taken from our Geography Flipbook Activities Keystage 2 Years5&6
This unit contains 2 full lessons with lesson plan and resources.
Investigating rivers Flipbook
The water cycle Flipbook :The Amazon
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:
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
• about the River Amazon and its characteristics
Learning outcomes Children will be able to: • identify and explain each stage in the water cycle
Locate the Amazon on a map and identify some of its features (size,meanders,sediment,tributaries, environment through which it flows)
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: 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 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
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
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
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
The Learning Outside the Classroom resource provides teachers with fun outdoor activities and great ideas to engage KS1 and Early Years.
This free part of the outdoor learning resource takes a look at :-
• Natural Area around School and Local Area
• Health and Safety
• Natual Enviornment Case Study
Also see KS2 Learning Outside the Classroom.
This resource includes 1 text with activities and questions. Text title:
Niagara Falls
The cards primarily address text-level objectives for each year group and focus specifically on reading comprehension of non-fiction texts. The cards are designed to encourage talk and develop listening and speaking skills.
There is a main text on the front of each of the reading cards. The main text is followed by talk time , where there are open-ended questions, which are designed to stimulate a personal response to the issues raised and encourage children to think about the card’s theme.
The questions encourage discussion between two to six people. Talk time questions that are preceded by a require children to refer back to the text and are suitable for prompting children’s written responses. The box contains an interesting fact related to the card’s theme. This should appeal to the children’s sense of wonder and fascination for the remarkable.
The reverse side of each card carries things to do box. This contains activities and challenges that are designed to enable children to pursue the main theme still further. The activities are mainly practical in nature, so that all children can succeed, whatever their levels of literacy
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Based on a theme, LCP’s daily home learning plans are here to help give parents ideas for fun and engaging activities for their children. Each day includes a mixture of independent and working with adult activities and a timetable to help structure the day.
Day 3 Water includes links to Science, Art, English and Geography
DISCLAIMER: Website addresses are provided in this resource in order to offer additional information sources for teachers. It is not unknown for unscrupulous individuals or organisations to place highly
unsuitable materials on websites to which children might have access. It is essential that teachers check the content of websites before allowing pupils to have access to them. In addition, although we try to suggest reliable sources, websites and the individual pages within them can sometimes be removed or have their website addresses changed by their owners. LCP cannot be held responsible for other organisations’ websites which are removed or changed, nor for the content of such websites.
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Based on a theme, LCP’s daily home learning plans are here to help give parents ideas for fun and engaging activities for their children. Each day includes a mixture of independent and working with adult activities and a timetable to help structure the day.
It includes all resources and hyperlinks.
Day 3 Water includes links to Science, Literacy, Geography and Art
DISCLAIMER: Website addresses are provided in this resource in order to offer additional information sources for teachers. It is not unknown for unscrupulous individuals or organisations to place highly
unsuitable materials on websites to which children might have access. It is essential that teachers check the content of websites before allowing pupils to have access to them. In addition, although we try to suggest reliable sources, websites and the individual pages within them can sometimes be removed or have their website addresses changed by their owners. LCP cannot be held responsible for other organisations’ websites which are removed or changed, nor for the content of such websites.
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Based on a theme, LCP’s daily home learning plans are here to help give parents ideas for fun and engaging activities for their children. Each day includes a mixture of independent and working with adult activities and a timetable to help structure the day.
It includes all resources and hyperlinks.
Day 7 Africa- The Gambia includes links to Geography, Reading, Writing, Spelling, Science and Art.
DISCLAIMER: Website addresses are provided in this resource in order to offer additional information sources for teachers. It is not unknown for unscrupulous individuals or organisations to place highly
unsuitable materials on websites to which children might have access. It is essential that teachers check the content of websites before allowing pupils to have access to them. In addition, although we try to suggest reliable sources, websites and the individual pages within them can sometimes be removed or have their website addresses changed by their owners. LCP cannot be held responsible for other organisations’ websites which are removed or changed, nor for the content of such websites.
Based on a theme, LCP’s daily home learning plans are here to help give parents ideas for fun and engaging activities for their children. Each day includes a mixture of independent and working with adult activities and a timetable to help structure the day.
It includes all resources and hyperlinks.
Day 7 Africa- The Gambia includes links to Geography, Reading, Writing, Spelling, Science and Art.
DISCLAIMER: Website addresses are provided in this resource in order to offer additional information sources for teachers. It is not unknown for unscrupulous individuals or organisations to place highly
unsuitable materials on websites to which children might have access. It is essential that teachers check the content of websites before allowing pupils to have access to them. In addition, although we try to suggest reliable sources, websites and the individual pages within them can sometimes be removed or have their website addresses changed by their owners. LCP cannot be held responsible for other organisations’ websites which are removed or changed, nor for the content of such websites.
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Encourage your child’s natural curiosity with this River Investigation.
Links to measure in Maths
Taken from the KS2 Geography Resources File. Available in PDF
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Taken from our Geography Flipbook Activities Keystage 2 Years5&6
This unit contains
Investigating rivers Flipbook :The water cycle
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 objectives Children should learn: • about the features of the water cycle • to sequence the components of the water cycle
Learning outcomes Children will be able to: • identify and explain each stage in the water cycle
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