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

5 worksheets to inspire learning and encourage geographical curiosity both at home or at school. Focused on a location study: South Wales. Taken from Keystage 2 Geography Resource File. Available as PDF to print. These worksheets include: Rainfall and Temperature in the UK worksheet Climate Statistics in Cardiff Types of Coal The Railway Children Comprehension Reading a Map (Distrubition of Iron and Steel in South Wales)

2 lessons with plans and resources Taken from our Year 5 and 6 Geography Flipbook Lesson 1: Making Waste Work Learning objectives Children should learn: • to investigate a local environmental issue • about issues associated with landfill sites Learning outcomes Children will be able to: • understand how change affects the local area • communicate opinions on landfill sites Activity: You are going to make a written proposal to ask the headteacher to give you permission to start a recycling scheme. Lesson 2: Recycling Learning objectives Children should learn: • about the types of rubbish we throw away • about the need for recycling in order to reduce rubbish Learning outcomes Children will be able to: • understand the difference between re-use and recycling • discuss what needs to be considered when setting up a recycling scheme Activity:Imagine that you are an education officer for Friends of the Earth. You are against the proposal for a new landfill site in the local area. • Design a T-shirt for children to wear in the campaign against a new landfill site. Leave a review

1 lesson plan with resource sheets Learning objectives Children learn: • the names of the continents; • the names of the oceans; • the difficulties of representing the globe on a map. Success criteria Children should be able to: • name and locate the seven continents and five oceans Skills and processes Locational knowledge: • Name and locate the seven continents and five oceans. Human and physical geography: • Recognise the Equator and North and South Poles. Geographical skills and fieldwork: • Use a globe to identify continents and oceans. 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

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

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 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

1 lesson plan with resources Called: Going somewhere new – How will we get there? Learning Objective Children should learn: • about the types of transport used to get to places; • to use atlases, internet maps and globes. Success criteria Children can: • use atlases, internet maps and globes to plan routes Taken from LCP’s KS1 Geography Resource File

3 lessons covering: The Compass How to use the compass Directional language Includes Lesson plans and work sheets Lesson 1: The Compass and its uses Learning objectives Children should learn: • the names of simple compass directions; • simple locational language; • to describe the location of features on a map Lesson 2: Using the Compass Learning objectives Children should learn: • the names of simple compass directions; • simple locational language; • to use simple maps; • to plot a route on the ground. Lesson 3: Using directional language Learning objectives Children can: • begin to confidently use directional language. Taken from LCP’s KS1 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

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

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

Taken from our UKS2 WW1 Resources File. This is Unit 5. There are six units available for Upper Key Stage 2, each focusing on different curriculum subjects but also designed to complement one another to support cross-curricular planning. An overview, in the form of a Planning Chart, is also included. Each unit contains Activity ideas packed with facts, suggestions for different abilities and for working both in and out of the classroom, one Activity sheet, two Visual resources and a photocopiable Factsheet. Supporting the units are two Timelines, a World War I Glossary and two Maps of Europe showing how the geographical landscape and country boundaries changed as a result of the war. Lesson 1:A guide to Leper Lesson 2:The impact of the landscape Lesson 3: Belgium then and now Lesson 4: The creation of new countries Lesson 5:Here and there Lesson 6: Can you find your way around Leper? Lesson 7:National pride Leave a review

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