Learning Outside the Classroom from LCP is a cross curricular resource providing teachers with fun outdoor activities and great ideas to engage KS2 (years 3, 4, 5 & 6) . This free outdoor learning resource pack takes a look at some of the subjects covered in Learning Outside the Classroom. A great intro or perfect to use on their own! Download and take a look. • Local Area as a Learning Environment • Iron Age • Collecting Invertebrates Also see KS1 Learning Outside the Classroom.

Get all 5 sheets from our TES shop A worksheet on the Watercycle. Written for Year 4. Taken from KS2 Geography Resources File. Downloadable as a PDF Leave a review

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.

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

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

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 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

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

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)

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 Leave a review

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 Leave a review

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

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

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. Leave a review.

This pack includes 6 worksheets: Understanding the difference between the British Isles, United Kingdom and Great Britain. Make Your Own Wind Vane Investigating Weather Physical or Human features Understanding where food comes from From LCP KS1 Geography Resource File The purpose of Geography is: • to develop a knowledge and understanding of place on a local, regional and global scale, of the interconnections between places, of the significance of location, of human and physical environments, of people–environment relationships, and of the causes and consequences of change; • to develop the skills needed to undertake geographical investigations (enquiry, map work, photographs and image interpretation • to stimulate interest in, and to encourage an appreciation of, the world around us (environmental, social and cultural awareness); • to develop an informed concern for the world around us and an ability to take positive action (citizenship and sustainability).

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. Leave us a review.

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.

5 worksheets to inspire learning and encourage geographical curiosity both at home or at school. Available as PDF to print. Designed for Year 3. These worksheets include: Instructions and templates to make a cardboard contours island (2 sheets) River bend investigation River speed investigation Understanding Cities in the UK.