Three Great Lesson Ideas for primary geography, covering orienteering, using a map to site renewable resources and arguing persuasively.
Orienteering skills combine PE with geography. Map symbols in the first activity help children discover a trail around their school gr More…ounds.
Next, a lesson using an unlabelled map of a familiar location, challenges children to site renewable energy resources in their locality.
Finally, a fake scenario involving a farm being pulled down to make way for a power station makes use of children’s persuasive argument techniques.