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

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

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

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

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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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? Leave a review

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 Leave a review

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)

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