Primary north america resources

This is a Y3/4 topic (geography) lesson on polar environments. The lesson teaches pupils how we measure temperature, how the celcius scale works and what temperatures you would typically expect to record in given scenarios. If your school has access to a class set of thermometers, you could add an extra section where pupils measure temperatures around the classroom/school premises. The main activity involves researching the winter and summer average highs/lows in different parts of the world, including one location each in the Arctic and Antarctic. It is intended that pupils work in mixed ability pairs and they will need an ipad and an atlas in each pair.

This is a topic introduction day (‘wow’ day/‘launch’ day) for a Y3 or 4 class about to start a topic on rivers and the water cycle. The morning involves lots of new learning - including an introduction to the key content of the topic. There are two practical experiments (obviously you will need to source the items for these beforehand) - one a simple evaporation/condensation demonstration and the other is the well-known ‘shaving foam cloud’ experiment! The afternoon is more art/music based, featuring a look at the inspiration French impressionists took from rivers/water and the inspiration many classical composers took from this topic. Finally, if you have a copy of Wind in the Willows to hand, this is an ideal topic-themed way to round the day off. Alternatively, look up the 1983 animated version on YouTube!

Season Scavenger Hunt This scavenger hunt introduces to students an information and fun facts about the Seasons and reasons for its change. There are 24 scavenger hunt cards with colorful pictures. It’s a great tool for students to review vocabulary on season. How to Use: Print the given all 24 cards on a card stock or any other good paper and cut them along the black line. Get the print of Seasons Scavenger Hunt questions pages and each student should be given this copy. Place Seasons Scavenger Hunt cards around the classroom. For example you can place it on chair, on table, on benches, behind the classroom doors, besides the computer or wherever you like. Students have to search the cards in a classroom in order to find out the answers of the questions. Students can complete this exercise in a group with classmate or alone. You will find lots more in my store, including math, science, ELA, activities/craftivities, special education, interactive activities, and more!

This bundle contains 319 lessons and is suitable for teaching the whole of KS3 Geography and the Edexcel 1-9 GCSE. Recommended sequence: Year 7 Map Skills Rainforests Settlement Rivers UK, Weather and Climate Year 8 Coasts Extreme Environments Tourism Fragile Environments Year 9 Development Gap Energy Population Hazardous Earth Year 10 Development Dynamics The UK’s Evolving Physical Landscape The UK’s Evolving Human Landscape Forests Under Threat Year 11 People and The Biosphere Consuming Energy Resources Challenges of an Urbanising World For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk

4 GREAT SETS OF GEOGRAPHY RESOURCES ALASKA ANTARCTICA MAP LETTERING AND NUMBERS DIRECTIONS AND DISTANCES SIGNPOST

3 Geography lessons: Climate change, Grid References and Air Pressure. Engaging lessons for students

KS3 Topic - Glaciation Lesson 1 - What are glaciers and where are they located? Lesson 2 - How are glaciers formed and how can they shape the landscape? Lesson 3 - Processes of Glaciation Lesson 4 - Glacial landforms shaped by erosion. Lesson 5 - Glacial landforms shaped by deposition Lesson 6 - What is it like to live in a glacial environment? Lesson 7 - Climate Change vs Glacial Environments Fully resourced lessons with a wide range of activities. Homework sheets and differentiated lower ability worksheets included. Revision A3 sheet a d topic test also included.

Lesson Objective: To investigate the impact of climate change on named glacial environments. Tasks include - memory game, key facts on climate change. Information pack - Including information of six glacial environments. Can be conducted as a carousel activity, group work or individual task - A3 worksheet to help collate information.

Contains a PowerPoint which looks at the difference between weather and climate and then looks at each of the 5 types of climate. Includes basic information on each climate type as well as examples of countries with this climate and a map. Also includes 2 activities for children to complete. Activity 1: Children colour in a map following the key on the 5 different climates around the world. Then they cut out the 5 images at the bottom and stick them in the appropriate box for each climate. Activity 2: Children must read the items inside each suitcase and decide which countries climate they match. They then cut these out, stick them beside one another and write a sentence or 2 about them.

This is an exciting unit of work that I have created for my year 7 geographers. Each lesson they look at a new location around the globe and look at why it is considered an impossible place to live. Each lesson is full of varied, differentiated activities which my students loved! This unit also includes a homework/ project activity, as well as an assessment sheet. Enjoy!

This is a lesson that I have created for a unit titled ‘Impossible places’. The lesson starts with allowing students to guess what the lesson is about through various clues followed by objectives. The students then locate Las Vegas and outline some of its key features. The lesson is then divided in to two sections, physical and human causes for Las Vegas’ water shortage involving some climate graph work. A very enjoyable lesson to teach!

Seasons! This 16-page Seasons TVP will help bring to life your topic! The ninja has carefully selected 4 key areas to study and explore: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter! We have created exciting lists of topic-focused nouns, verbs and adjectives to enhance pupil writing. Researched etymologies of related words for you to teach. The ninja has even provided a unique Vocabulary Ninja reward system (including certificates), branded display resources, and blank templates of Synonym Alley and Vocabulary Laboratory activities. The ninja has even supplied two pages of teaching techniques, helping you bring to life each resource.

Explore the United States of America as you create these interactive foldables for your Interactive Notebook or Lapbook. These 4 foldables cover: *The geography of the United States of America *Economic facts about the United States of America *The government of the United States of America *Cultural facts about the United States of America This ebook is a downloadable PDF file. Just follow the instructions, cut, fold, glue, and create!

Explore Mexico as you create these interactive foldables for your Interactive Notebook or Lapbook. These 4 foldables cover: *The geography of Mexico *Economic facts about Mexico *The government of Mexico *Cultural facts about Mexico This ebook is a downloadable PDF file. Just follow the instructions, cut, fold, glue, and create!

Explore Jamaica as you create these interactive foldables for your Interactive Notebook or Lapbook. These 4 foldables cover: *The geography of Jamaica *Economic facts about Jamaica *The government of Jamaica *Cultural facts about Jamaica This ebook is a downloadable PDF file. Just follow the instructions, cut, fold, glue, and create!

Explore Cuba as you create these interactive foldables for your Interactive Notebook or Lapbook. These 4 foldables cover: *The geography of Cuba *Economic facts about Cuba *The government of Cuba *Cultural facts about Cuba This ebook is a downloadable PDF file. Just follow the instructions, cut, fold, glue, and create!

Explore the continent of North America as you create these interactive foldables for your Interactive Notebook or Lapbook. These 2 foldables cover: *Basic facts about the continent of North America. *Major geographical features of North America. This ebook is a downloadable PDF file. Just follow the instructions, cut, fold, glue, and create!

Differentiated weather/climate/rainfall comparison of St Lucia & Iceland. Also includes a document of 'significant' volcano eruptions across the world between 2000 - 2016. Both activities suitable for graphing.

Let's learn about Natural Disasters! This NO PREP bundle includes 9 units with a great variety of activities, exercises and puzzles about natural disasters. Answer keys and answer sheets are included. The following worksheets are included: Blizzards Earthquakes Floods Hurricanes Landslides Tornadoes Tsunamis Volcanic Eruptions Wildfires

A fabulous cross-curricular resource for familiarising children with how to organise and write their own non-chronological report. This highly useful and topical resource will engage your children in writing a non-chronological report based on the fascinating topic of Polar Bears. The pack includes a guide suggesting how you could use the resources with the children in your class.

The worksheet includes four activities that can be given as a homework assignment. The students will learn writing weather report. Encourage the students to do a research on how do we get a weather forecast.

Here is my personal medium term planning for North America topic covered in year 5. I have colour coded all of the relevant NC links that are covered throughout this topic as well as provided some initial Learning Challenge questions to generate class or group discussions. Feel free to adapt it to suit your needs as it is completely editable. Ideal for someone new to the year group who needs a bit of a starting point. I hope this proves to be useful.

Resources included are as follows: 45 Pdf files for you to print. information pack, Photo pack, maps of state/country/continent/Arctic/world, map to colour, A4 flag, key word cards, writing booklet cover, resources sack tag, writing page border, topic summary sheet, acrostic poem, mind map, animal flashcards, adjectives cards, booklet to make, cue cards for presentation, diary to write, long banner to head display, lettering, display borders, topic flashcards such as glacier, igloo etc, research task, research note pad, conversation to write, letter to write, several other writing tasks.

Word Search Bundle GCSE OCR 1-9 B Topics

Great starter activity all about cocoa beans. Cut up the boxes and get the children to match the sentence. Differentiated so LA can match a blue box with a yellow box or HA need to match the sentences that are in one colour.

These lessons all have the activities, lesson power points, homework and assessment opportunities in the form of exam questions, nothing for you to do but print. The topics covered in this unit are: - Drought (California) - Hurricanes (Katrina) - High and low pressure systems - Microclimates - Air masses that impact the UK - Depressions and anticyclones - Aspect and altitude - Understanding Climate Change - Natural evidence for climate change - Greenhouse effect and the carbon cycle - natural Theories of climate change

A collection of worksheets that include: 1. Investigating Hurricanes 2. Tracking Hurricane Irma - latitude/longitude exercise 3. Hurricane Irma Worksheet

The weather in the mountains is very unpredictable and can change incredibly fast. One minute it can be fine and clear, the next there could be a blizzard with howling winds and driving snow, and then back to being clear and calm. Climbers need to be prepared for all eventualities and carry suitable equipment’s with them at all times and all these weather types can strike within the same one hour! These worksheets draw on the students senses as to describe these weather conditions.

Here are five Essay Writing titles in one bundle. Each eBook contains one or more piece of writing and instructions and guidelines for writing an essay (including multiples possible essay topics) using the piece of writing as a starting point. The titles are on the following themes: Building Iron Bridges; Short Stories/Space Travel; Survival & Rescue (true accounts); Volcanoes (Mount Vesuvius); Wit & Humour.

6 weeks worth of History and Geography based on the topic Hurricanes.

A simple worksheet that requires your students to plot the path of Hurricane Irma as it made its way through the Caribbean and up the west coast of Florida. An answer key is provided.

This lesson contains the full planned lesson (covers two lessons) to explain the cause of droughts in California with a series of resources and activities for students to complete. There is also a clip to show and a variety of map and data handling exercises including the homework activity. There is also a case study task sheet that works best with the information resources and printed as A3. All resources are included.

Let's learn about Natural Disasters! This NO PREP bundle includes 9 units with a great variety of activities, exercises and puzzles about natural disasters. Answer keys and answer sheets are included. The following worksheets are included: Blizzards Earthquakes Floods Hurricanes Landslides Tornadoes Tsunamis Volcanic Eruptions Wildfires

Bargain. Three schemes of work aimed for KS3 but can easily be adapted for KS4. Each scheme uses imaginative and creative teaching strategies and have assessments built in. Climate Change Global Inequality The Future of food

This set of resources is designed for teaching the KS2 Geography unit Exploring St Lucia. The planning, presentations and activities are also available individually on the TES. If you like this resource, please review it. If you have any suggestions or feedback, contact me at eddiebray@yahoo.co.uk

This is the medium term plan for the KS2 Geography unit Exploring St Lucia. A topic cover page is also included. The presentations and activities described in the planning are available on the TES, either as individual lessons or as a bundle. If you like this resource, please review it. If you have any suggestions or feedback, contact me at eddiebray@yahoo.co.uk

Every resource needed for a KS3 Programme of Study! This bundle includes over 200 lessons!! Everything is fully planned and resourced and ready to use! I have spent a lot of time planning these lessons and welcome feedback. No need for textbooks! Enjoy!

Full unit of work for Biomes and Ecosystems. This unit of 16 lessons explores the general pattern and characteristics of biomes and ecosystems globally and then looks at tropical rainforests, polar regions and taiga’s in detail. All lesson are suitable for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required. Most suitable for KS3, and perfect for preparing pupils for the new 1-9 GCSE modules. All lessons have a starter and lesson aim. All PowerPoints in the same signature style. Lesson sequence: 1 - What is an ecosystem? 2 - How are global ecosystems distributed? 3 - What are tropical rainforests? 4 - Can we protect the rainforests? 5 - What is the human impact on tropical rainforests? 6 - Can we sustainably manage tropical rainforests? 7 - Where are the polar regions? 8 - What is Svalbard? 9 - Can Svalbard overcome its development challenges? 10 - What threats do cold environments face? 11 - How can cold environments be managed? 12 - What is a taiga like? 13 - What direct threats do taiga’s face? 14 - Why are taiga’s under pressure? 15 - How can we conserve the taiga wilderness? 16 - Can we balance the economy and environment in taiga’s? For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk

A lesson that focuses on the physical geography of Canada, including looking at the rivers, seas and terrain. All the resources that are needed to run the lesson are here including differentiated worksheets, the presentation and maps that can be used if you don't have access to atlases etc.

Compare and contrast! Here are two true stories of survival and rescue. With detailed guidelines suggesting how to proceed, the student will read the texts, choose an essay topic from several suggested, take notes, organise those notes, and write an essay. This assignment will take at least one week to complete. Stories: Tracks In The Bush An Australian ranch-worker goes missing, and three Europeans, along with six blacks, trek through the bush to rescue him. The tracking abilities of the blacks consistently astonish the narrator. He also describes the intense natural surroundings and the challenges, on a human level, that are faced by all involved. The Marvellous Ice-Drift of Captain Tyson This early attempt to reach the North Pole failed. The voyage nonetheless left its mark on history when the captain and crew were forced to abandon ship and live on an ice floe for 196 days in the middle of the Arctic winter. German sailors, an American cook, and a group of Inuit faced deadly conditions together. Under the leadership of Captain George E. Tyson, not one person perished. Note: To the best of my understanding the use of the word ‘black’ to refer to the indigenous peoples of Australia is preferable to them to the word ‘Aborigine’. Thus, the original term has been left unaltered in the text. If I am mistaken and have caused offense, please let me know! TIP! This may be a good choice for a student with an interest in outdoor adventures such as hiking, camping or rock-climbing.

KS2 Geography – Discover the Arctic Circle powerpoint lesson of 24 slides. Learning Objectives I must find the Arctic in my atlas. I must recognise the symbols for the points on a compass. I should identify the lines of latitude and longitude on a map or globe. I should explain the term ‘Arctic Circle’. I could describe where the Arctic Circle is in the world using geographical vocabulary and name some places located there. The lesson uses pupil starting points and encourages partner and group discussion. Written tasks are built into each stage of the lesson following a discussion task, map or globe work. The introduction asks pupils to describe the arctic landscape and arctic animals using a selection of photographs. They use this information to build up a picture to guess the place –the Arctic! The lesson moves onto a simple explanation of latitude and longitude and the points on the compass. Pupils will need a map or globe to explore the tasks fully and identify the Arctic Circle. There are 2 YouTube links – a latitude and longitude song (great fun!) and a short clip about Arctic wildlife which could be used as a starter for a follow up lesson. There is a simple optional assessment task at the end of the lesson.

This is an entire years worth of teaching for KS3 Year 7 Geography. A topic to be taught each term. Topics include: 1) Map skills 2) The UK 3) Glaciation 4) Settlement 5) Population 6) Weather