A fun Geography topic for KS2 starting with looking at the continents, seas, oceans and zooming in week by week to their own locality. This plan and resources are based on zooming in to Gloucestershire and Cheltenham, but everything can be edited and adapted to your own locality.
This lesson focuses on teaching students about the UK. It goes through the basics about the UK e.g. the countries in the UK and then it goes through the UK’s connections to the wider world.
Learn about different sorts of homes.
introduces pupils to different types of homes. Pupils look at and explore a variety of homes such as a house, a flat, a caravan and a bungalow, and talk about what sort of home they live in. Pupils also look at house numbers and complete sorting and matching games involving numbers 1-9.
Learning objectives:
to talk about home and where they live
to begin to identify different sorts of houses and homes
to begin to recognise numbers and begin to match number to sign
This activity looks at how much of the land in the world is actually habitable. It is colourful and well designed. It is aimed at being used when learning about the Geography topic of people and population.
A quick and simple activity looking at the reasons why some places are sparsely populated and some places are densely populated. Colourful and easy to understand, it takes a good class 15-20 minutes to complete.
A small collection of photos from my time living and working in the country of Georgia. Please note that some of these were taken with slide film before the arrival of digital cameras. This collection will be added to over time. For use with countries, culture, seasons, climate, winter, seaside, ocean, animal, ecology, evolution, climate, or habitat topics.
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Great Britain, The UK and the British Isles
To be able to name and label on a map, the countries that make up the UK, Great Britain and the British Isles.
To be able to identify and label some of the human features of the UK.
This lesson is part of Our World, a Geography unit designed for students in KS1 and lower KS2 (Y1-3), but can also be taught as a stand alone lesson.
It aims to help younger students understand where they live. It looks at where Earth is in the solar system and then which continent, country and place they call home.
In the activity students write sentences about where they live. There are two differentiated worksheets:
Easier – Students fill in cloze procedure sentences to describe where they live.
Harder – Students write full sentences to describe where they live.
Extension – Students sort the names of countries, continents and planets into the correct categories.
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Full unit of work for where we live. This unit explores the evolution of settlements in the UK and across the world. All lessons are suitable for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required. Most suitable for KS2, years 5 or 6.
All lessons have a starter and lesson aim. All PowerPoints in the same signature style.
Lesson sequence:
1 – What is a settlement?
2 - What is the function of a settlement?
3 - Where should we build?
4 - Why do settlements change over time?
5 -Burgess and Hoyt model
6 - How is the High Street changing?
7 – What is a favela?
8 -How is London changing?
9 – GIS settlement change
10 – Green and brownfield sites
Also includes Geography Literacy mat and Geography Numeracy/Map Skills mat.
Links to National Curriculum:
- Human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water
- Use fieldwork to observe, measure record and present the human and physical features in the local area using a range of methods, including sketch maps, plans and graphs, and digital technologies
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A small collection of photos from my own adventures and visits to castles and forts. Please note that some of these were taken with slide film before the arrival of digital cameras. This collection will be added to over time. For use with buildings, materials, history, location, and where we live topics.
To follow my world first solo row around the coast of Britain and daily life as an explorer:
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* Free virtual field trips: Skype in the Classroom: https://education.microsoft.com/vikingquest
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AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification Unit 2A: In this lesson we look at where people in the UK live and the reasons for our population distribution.
The starter is based on the population total for the UK and the pupils have some questions to think about. I usually do this as a discussion. There is also a can you name 15 cities starter which works well for high ability groups.
We then look at cities in the UK. the pupils have a map and need to find the location of some of the major cities in the UK, we then briefly talk about their distribution. Next the pupils consider the human and physical factors that affect population distribution before putting this knowledge to work on a worksheet with several tasks and questions.
We finish with GCSE-style question on human and physical factors that affect population distribution.
In a nutshell lesson includes:
Two starters on population and cities.
Map task on the major cities of the UK
Worksheet on the population distribution in the UK
Video clips where appropriate
GCSE-style question with guidance on how to respond.
Hope this saves you some valuable planning time.
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A range of six comprehensions that test a variety of reading skills (inference, prediction, information selection, structural features, language selection, writer's purpose, cultural context).
This resource is great for speaking and listening and thinking about where we live. Children can talk in pairs about the poster and compare it with the places where they live.
There are a set of comprehension questions on page 2 such as how many houses are on the square and what sort of houses they are.
Link this to houses and homes or where we live.
There are cross curricular opportunities such as making a pictogram of the traffic, counting the trees and writing sentences.
“Our World and Where We Live,” encourages children to explore and appreciate their local environment and culture, and promotes understanding and empathy of others by facilitating comparison and discussion of diverse global environments and cultures.
The resource includes a complete lesson plan including aims, resources, activities, assessment and homework. There is a colour disucssion sheet to introduce different aspects of where we live and the local environment. Children can colour in the black and white version of this sheet and overwrite the sentences. The next worksheet asks the children to draw and write about the different aspects and an example sheet is provided that the children can use as a reference or stimulus.
*Boardmaker licenced. *
The Boardmaker symbols can be a great resource for SEND students. They are a set of picture symbols used for communication with individuals who are nonverbal, have limited speech or who benefit from pictorial / visual input. They can aid in understanding and expressing ideas around the topic of Our World and where we live.
A settlements themed colouring activity to inspire students to think about the place they call home, what kind of house they live in, or just for fun. Ideal for primary school students, and students learning English as a foreign language.
To follow my world first solo row around the coast of Britain and daily life as an explorer:
* Free educational videos: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/sarahrowssolo or Amazon Video: http://amzn.to/2jno3v8
* Free virtual field trips: Skype in the Classroom: https://education.microsoft.com/vikingquest
* Paid school speaker bookings: http://www.schoolspeakers.co.uk/speaker-listings/sarah-weldon
A small collection of photos from my own adventures and visits to different types of building and settlement to the town of Akhaltsikhe (Old Castle) in the region of Samtskhe-Javakheti, in Georgia.
Please leave me a review and I will send you any other resource of your choice for free (contact me: office@oceansproject.com). Check out my other resources at my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/sarah277
Let me know if you have any resource requests and I will tailor make a resource for you.
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