This lesson is designed for KS2 students. It can be taught as a stand alone lesson but is also available as part of three wider units, all of which are available on TES:
-Volcanoes
-Earthquakes
-Volcanoes & Earthquakes
The presentation introduces the idea that the world’s crust is split into tectonic plates and looks at how these are related to volcanoes and earthquakes.
The activity challenges students to identify tectonic plates using a map. It is differentiated two ways:
Easier – Students identify the world’s tectonic plates using a colour-coordinated map.
Harder – Students identify the world’s tectonic plates using a plain map.
Extension – Students use an atlas to find out which tectonic plate countries of the world are located on.
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Understanding the World audit for Reception and EYFS provisions. Understanding the World audit only.
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EYFS Understanding the World Progress Model
This UTW progress model lists the small steps of skills and knowledge to be taught in F1 and F2, linked to Science, Geography, History, RE and Computing as well as how this links to KS1.
It was a really useful document for both EYFS practitioners and subject leaders to have during our recent Ofsted in October 2022, where we were rated Outstanding in all areas, to be able to show how our UTW curriculum in EYFS ensures children are gaining the skills they need to be successful beyond EYFS.
Our EYFS curriculum was designed by using Development Matters as a starting point, which we then added to in order to create an ambitious and engaging curriculum.
Here are Powerpoint slides of four lessons based on the planning from Understanding Christianity. This is aimed at Years 3 and 4.
In this unit there is a variety of activities such as creative art activities as well as a writing task. This is ready to download and teach.
The learning objectives for each lesson are as follows:
Lesson 1: Engage in the story of Creation and Fall
Children listen to the story of Creation and go on a mindful walk around the school grounds to look at any nature they can see and appreciate that Christians believe this was created by God. They return and explore the concept of temptation first-hand and then explore the panel images that represent creation and fall from the Understanding Christianity unit.
Lesson 2: Enquire into Christian belief that humans cannot get close to God without his help
Here children will explore the feelings of Adam, Eve and God when Eve betrayed them. The outcome of this lesson is a diary entry of Eve exploring how she feels. Children will understand the importance of saying sorry and taking responsibility for their actions.
Lesson 3: Explore that the bible shows God wants to help people by giving guidelines
Children will explore the ten commandments and watch videos of two different types of churches that serve God in different ways. Their task is to create a piece of art based on one of or all of the ten commandments. Examples are included.
Lesson 4: Evaluate and express our learning about creation and fall
This lesson will consist of children ordering the story of creation as a reminder, completing a quiz either individually or in teams about the creation story. There is then a selection of activities to choose from in two sections: writing or drawing.
Included:
The Powerpoint with all of the links required inside
The quiz for lesson 4
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Understanding Latitude and Longitude is a Geography unit designed for students in upper KS2 and KS3.
The unit contains a sequence of four lessons which are carefully designed to help students understand the key concepts of latitude and longitude and learn the skill of reading coordinates on a world map.
The planning overview and topic title page can be downloaded for free here. Lessons include:
L1 – Introduction to latitude and longitude
L2 – Finding latitude and longitude coordinates on a world map
L3 – Reading latitude and longitude with greater accuracy
L4 – Locating world capital cities using latitude and longitude
Each lesson includes a presentation and differentiated activities/worksheets.
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Complete lesson
All resources required for lesson attached, including video links in PowerPoint notes section.
PowerPoint self explanatory.
LOs
Define key population terminology.
Identity sparse and dense populated places.
Explain why population follows a pattern of distribution.
This educational 30 slide assembly focuses on the importance of empathy in secondary school, exploring how to develop empathy skills and its impact within the school community. Students will discover the value of understanding others’ perspectives, fostering positive peer relationships, resolving conflicts with compassion, and cultivating a culture of kindness. Through reflection and actionable tasks, they will be empowered to embrace empathy, creating a supportive and inclusive environment for a successful academic year.
Included in this assembly
What is empathy?
Why is empathy important?
Active Listening
Perspective Talking
Empathy in action
Conflict Resolution
The Ripple Effect
Informative Video’s
Self Reflection
Follow Up Tutor Time Task
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This pack contains a PowerPoint used in a network training session with loads of ideas for activities linked to Understanding the World. There is wealth of pictures, resource ideas, links to useful websites and some activity sheets.
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EYFS Understanding of the World objectives and Early Learning Goals, split by strand and age. Includes 30-50 months and 40-60+ months. Great for display!
30+ question quiz is played in pairs - 1 partner reads the clue words and the partner has to give the answer.
Alternative remove the answers from each slide and use as a whole class exercise.
This has excellent pictures/images to motivate students and provoke discussion.
I have found these activities work brilliantly!!
This lesson is part of Mountain Environments, a Geography unit designed for students in upper KS2 (Y4-6).
First the presentation recaps the structure of the Earth and how its crust is split into tectonic plates. It then investigates the different ways tectonic plates can move and how two tectonic plates colliding can form fold mountains (e.g. the Himalayas).
The differentiated activity challenges students to work out which tectonic plates formed different fold mountain ranges around the world.
Easier – Students have to find one tectonic plate.
Medium – Students have to find two tectonic plates.
Harder – Students find the name of each mountain range and two tectonic plates.
Extension – Students complete a cloze procedure paragraph about fold mountains.
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Understanding the world progression of skills from birth to 5 years old
Do you know that developmental milestones children reach at each stage lay the foundation for progress in school?
This comprehensive progression map outlines how children develop the understanding of the world from birth to school age.
You can follow this chart to assess your child’s progress and readiness for school, as well as plan activities for homeschooling.
The school expectations at age 4-5 are taken from the National Curriculum in the UK.
Please note that all children develop at a different pace and this progression map is designed to give you a brief overview of what you can expect at each stage.
It includes 8 areas of understanding the world development:
• People and communities
• The world
• Technology and tools
• Materials
• History
• Living things
• Forces
• Geography
If you find this progression map useful, you can find Mathematical skills, Communication & Language, Literacy, Physical development and Personal, Social and Emotional Development progression maps in our shop.
Understanding the World Themed Sea Creature Lesson Plan for Reception
Includes:
1 Teacher Lead Focus Activity (LO and SC included)
1 NN Lead Focus Activity (LO and SC included)
6 Independent Activities
Book Link Ideas
A colorful template for your learning journal for documenting children's learning. Understanding the World- simply click and begin typing your story. Click and insert images required. These documents display as a lovely keepsake for families in children's Learning Journey and are quick and easy to use.
This lesson aims to get students to gain a better understanding of the continents and oceans and their location in the world. In addition to this it gets student to think about the way in which a 2D map is created and therefore the representation of continents/countries on a map. By the end of the lesson students will be able to answer the following key questions:
What is the difference between countries, continents and oceans?
Where are the continents and oceans located?
What are the different map projections and why are they used?
World War II
This lesson sets out to explains how Hitler set Germany on the road to war in 5 steps.
Students are challenged to find out how and why was he able to defy the Treaty of Versailles so easily with little or no consequences (shown through a causal spider’s web).
Students analyse video footage and a number of sources, using the COP technique (modelled for student understanding) which has proved invaluable for evaluating sources at GCSE.
A final chronological recap of the events and evaluation of the most and least important of the events that led to war, will give students an in depth understanding of why World War II started.
This lesson is ideal as preparation for GCSE if you are embedding source skills or teaching the interwar years or WWII at Key stage 4.
It is enquiry based with a key question using a lightbulb posed at the start of the lesson and revisited throughout to show the progress of learning.
The resource includes retrieval practice activities, suggested teaching strategies and differentiated materials and comes in Powerpoint format if there is a wish to adapt and change.
Taken from our PSHE EYFS/KS1 Resource file
One lesson with activities to get the children thinking about key questions.
About the unit in general:
The material in this unit contains ideas on how PSHE and Citizenship can be introduced in the early years. Many of the skills and values that fall within this area of the curriculum are taught throughout each day in an Early Years classroom. The qualities they encourage are illustrated on the following page. Three themes: • Fairness • Relationships • Choices have been covered in depth. Many of the qualities that are developed in PSHE and Citizenship are embraced within these particular subjects. They are fundamental to the Early Years curriculum. Timing In this unit most of the activities would take 10-15 minutes. However, some of the ideas presented are not full activities but suggestions of how to incorporate the topic into the everyday classroom
Find the full unit on TES: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eyfs-pshe-understanding-the-world-back-to-school-unit-of-work-6-lessons-unit-12319666
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