**20+ fully resourced lessons based on Kensuke’s Kingdom - perfect for any Year 6 class. ** Includes a range of extended writing opportunities, exemplar texts (WAGOLLs), reading comprehension questions, differentiated activities, success criteria checklists, collaborative learning tasks and more.

This resource provides an interactive exploration of the United Kingdom’s countries, featuring accurately colored flags for Northern Ireland, England, Scotland, and Wales. It includes a word bank for labeling each country and an extension activity for coloring the Union Jack, enhancing learners’ understanding of the UK’s national symbols and composition.

This lesson is part of Exploring the United Kingdom, a Geography unit designed for KS1 and lower KS2 (Y2-4). The presentation helps students understand the difference between human and physical geographical features. It then challenges them to classify famous UK landmarks as either human or physical. There are two engaging activities included: Partner activity: Students sort pictures/descriptions of UK landmarks into human and physical geographical features. Individual activity: Students match pictures of UK landmarks to their descriptions. This is differentiated three ways: Easier – Students match 8 features to their descriptions. Medium – Students match 12 features to their descriptions. Harder – Students write a description of each UK landmark using a word bank. Extension – Students sort the UK landmarks into human and physical geographical features. If you like this resource, we would appreciate a review! We will happily send you a free resource in return for a review or useful suggestions/feedback. Contact us at ed@teachitforward.co.uk.

Countries that make the UK and a comparison of London and Peru as Paddington Bear is the class English text. Worksheets for each country Powerpoint for each country

This booklet helps students to understand where we are located within the UK and what factors influence this. Locations with significant increasing and declining populations are explored with a look into immigration and the medias influence on our views of this

This lesson is part of Exploring the United Kingdom, a Geography unit designed for KS1 and lower KS2 (Y2-4). First the presentation introduces children to the flags of the United Kingdom and their names. Students then complete one of two differentiated activity worksheets: Easier – Students complete cloze procedure sentences about UK flags (with clues) Harder – Students complete cloze procedure sentences about UK flags (no clues) Extension – Students colour in the three UK national flags which together make up the Union Jack. If you like this resource, we would appreciate a review! We will happily send you a free resource in return for a review or useful suggestions/feedback. Contact us at ed@teachitforward.co.uk.

The National Curriculum states that children should be taught to use basic geographical to refer to key physical features, including beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil, valley, vegetation, season and weather. Also children should be taught to use world maps, atlases and globes to identify the United Kingdom and its countries, as well as the countries, continents and oceans studied at this key stage. In this lesson children will learn about mountains. Firstly, children will label a mountain landscape and discuss the geographical terms. Children will then participate in a quiz about mountains. Children will learn about the highest mountains in each of the four nations. Children will label the locations of the highest mountains if each of the four home nations on a map of the United Kingdom. There are extension activities for the higher-achieving children. What is included? Full lesson plan. PowerPoint for the lesson. Labelled mountain landscape (differentiated on three levels) Mountain landscape extension questions for higher-achieving children. Mountains quiz! Photographs of mountains in the United Kingdom and fact cards. Map of the United Kingdom with labelled locations of its mountains (differentiated on three levels). Map of the United Kingdom with mountains labelled extension questions for higher-achieving children. Files included: Mountains of the United Kingdom: Single Lesson for Year 1/2 Lesson Plan in PDF file. Mountains of the United Kingdom: Single Lesson for Year 1/2 Lesson PowerPoint.

This RE SMART and PowerPoint is a series of six lessons based on the Understanding Christianity unit “What kind of King is Jesus?” looking at the concept of the Kingdom of God in Christianity and how Jesus’ teachings are relevant to today’s world. All resources are included and lessons have a mixture of discussion and written activities. Resources include comprehensions and animations of bible passages, a charity pitch activity, a focus on how Jesus is represented in song, a comparison of heaven and Earth activity, a research activity into a Christian charity and a look at forgiveness in practice. Lessons include videos, group/partner discussion, group tasks, individual tasks and making links to children’s own lives. All resources are included, and there is a printing requirement list for the whole unit. Please note - the SMART and PowerPoint contain the same content, but you need Notebook software to open SMART.

First lesson in a SOW on the geography of the UK. Fully differentiated with extension activities. Includes- Workbook to complete tasks in Activity identifying the differences between the UK, GB and British Isles Activity locating major cities in the UK Extension activities Choropleth actvity mapping population density of different regions of the UK Extension activities

This lesson is part of Exploring the United Kingdom, a Geography unit designed for KS1 and lower KS2 (Y2-4). The presentation first introduces students to satellite photos before going on to challenge them to match satellite photos to famous UK landmarks (e.g. Wembley Stadium, Edinburgh Castle). In the activity, students use their geography detective skills to describe satellite photos and infer which famous UK landmark or feature each one is. It is differentiated two ways: Easier – Students write description of each satellite photo on a writing template sheet. Harder – Students stick satellite photos into their exercise book and write descriptions next to them. If you like this resource, we would appreciate a review! We will happily send you a free resource in return for a review or useful suggestions/feedback. Contact us at ed@teachitforward.co.uk.

Unit of Geography work on the United Kingdom. 6 weeks of lessons including worksheets for Year 1 and Year 2.

Complete lesson All resources required for lesson attached, including video links in PowerPoint notes section. PowerPoint self explanatory. LOs Define key terminology. Create a map of the UK. Describe key facts of the UK.

This is actually intended as Lesson One of an Around the World unit for my year 1 Geography, but it would work well as a stand-alone introduction to the British Isles. It provides a simple introduction to the United Kingdom, with facts about England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, as well as a mini-assessment at the end with true/false statements the children can answer, based on the learning they have just done.

This is a Geography unit of work on the United Kingdom and is a series of 9 lessons focusing on topics of map work, landscape, cities, energy, carbon footprint, transport, tourism, urban v rural and climate change in the UK.

Powerpoint of a wide variety of tasks that can be completed when studying Kenuskes Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo.

Presentation on the United Kingdom. 2nd presentation in SOW on Europe.

This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students revising knowledge relating to the United Kingdom, as a part of locational knowledge in geography. It contains comprehensive sections on: Overview and map; Counties and Cities of the UK; Longest Rivers; Highest Mountains; Human Geography Features; Physical Geography Features. The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included). The resource is most suitable for students in KS2 or lower KS3.

United Kingdom - A research project is a 18 pages study on United Kingdom. Use it as a class test or research project. Download Preview File - Please view the preview file prior to purchasing as the preview is all the resources in this pack. Please ensure that the resource is appropriate for your grade level prior to purchasing Answer is provided for the maps, flag and individual questions from 1 to 27 but not the short essays. The flag worksheets come with color/colour word. Included are also 3 maps of United Kingdom posters ( regions in United Kingdom, capital cities, surrounding seas, main rivers of United Kingdom) and a flag of United Kingdom

I made this after struggling to find a similar activity! Allows children to discover the names of the different countries and the capitals of the UK. Give children an atlas and see if they can find them before revealing whether they are right or wrong. Worked like a treat and built up some great atlas skills!!

A series of PowerPoint lessons, worksheets and activities to teach how the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons fought for the Kingdom of England up to the time of Edward the Confessor. POWERPOINTS: 1) ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND AD 780 Life in in England before the main arrival of the Vikings towards the end of the 8th century / How the Anglo-Saxons lived / How the towns were structured / The importance of the monks. 2) VIKING RAIDS AND INVASIONS AD 797 - 783 Timeline / Introduces the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as evidence / The first known attack on Britain by the Vikings / The second attack on Lindisfarne/Holy Island / Viking longships / Viking warriors and equipment / Beginning of Viking settlement in England 3) THE VIKINGS SETTLE & ALFRED FIGHTS BACK AD 866 - 927 Viking invasions and settlement / The Heathen Army / York / King Alfred / Guthrum / Danelaw / Alfred the Great and his fight against the Vikings / Edward the Elder / Athelstan / The Battle of Brunanburh 4) VIKING DAILY LIFE Family life / Clothing / Homes / Daily life / Viking law / Music / Food / Sport / Arts and crafts / Viking beliefs, Asgard and gods, days of the week named after Viking gods / Viking burials 5) ATHELSTAN, ETHELRED AND ANGLO-SAXON LAWS AD 927 - AD 991 Athelstan and government of England / The Witan / Hundreds / Moots / Reeves / Laws / / Punishments / Wergild / Ethelread the Unready 6) THE RETURN AND END OF THE VIKINGS AD 991 - 1066 Further Viking raids / St. Brice's Day massacre / Sweyn Forkbeard / King Canute / Edward the Confessor / Harold Godwinson / William the Conqueror / The Battle of Hastings / The end of the Viking era 7) LOOKING AT EVIDENCE Place names / Viking sagas / Anglo-Saxon Chronicles / Surnames and DNA / The Bayeux Tapestry / Archaeology / Treasure discoveries / Runestones RESOURCES TO PRINT (pdf): Most sheets are open-ended worksheets, with an image and lines for research, reports etc. What I already know about the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings What I would like to find out about the Vikings The arrival of the Vikings The Vikings attack the monasteries Danelaw King Alfred the Great The Heathen Army The Treaty of Wedmore Viking daily life Anglo-Saxon laws Athelstan Ethelred the Unready Battle of Hastings Battle of Stanford Bridge Death of King Harold Edward the Confessor King Harold The Vikings return Bayeux Tapestry Viking place names Viking runes Topic covers x 3 Viking ships Viking warriors Writing border - Edward the Confessor Writing border - Viking ship Plus a copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (in Word) Vikings & Anglo-Saxons medium term adaptable plan, with web links.