Within this varied, interesting, and engaging lesson, students aim to build their knowledge of two of history’s most famous explorers: Christopher Columbus and Ibn Battuta. Students utilise their independent learning skills to research the two travelers, utilise map-reading and geographical skills to improve their knowledge of their journeys, and draw comparisons and contrasts between the two. The lesson follows a clear and logical learning journey, which requires students to: - Consider the skills and characteristics required to be a learner, and apply them to real life contexts; - Share what they already know about the two explorers, and use their curiosity to devise new questions about them; - Employ their independent learning skills to find out the key events and journeys in the lives of the two explorers; - Plot the locations of their expeditions on a world map, and consider questions about their journeys based upon what they see; - Compare and contrast the key features of each explorer, using connectives and key facts; - Peer assess each others' learning using the simple but appropriate success criteria. Included in this lesson are: - Comprehensive, informative, whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation; - Helpful recording template for the research task; - World map for tracking their expeditions, with questions as an extension task; - Helpful and thorough teacher guidance/ lesson plan document, to assist implementation; - Cut-out copies of the learning objectives, to save time in the lesson. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide.

This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students revising knowledge relating to North America, as a part of their study of physical and human geography. It contains comprehensive sections on: Overview and map; Regions and Countries of North America; 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 KS3.

This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students revising knowledge relating to Antarctica, as a part of their study of physical and human geography. It contains comprehensive sections on: Overview and Map; Areas and Territories of Antarctica; 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 KS3.

The Island – Survival Diary Lesson Action-packed desert island survival lesson. Full lesson Power Point is recommended for two lessons and includes: * Attractive title pages throughout * Word list starter activity * Scenario page * Lesson Objectives * Discussion prompts * Writing prompts * Map drawing activity Excellent value, engaging lesson that students of all ages will enjoy! For more great resources and full lessons visit my shop page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits: copyright free images used.)

Template for you to create your own Pointless games - whatever subject or topic you are teaching! Based on the popular game show 'Pointless', this resource is perfect for use as a starter activity, plenary, or revision tool. Editable, so that you can change to any other topic or change the questions/answers. Containing almost 30 slides of sound clips, engaging visuals, and suitably challenging questions, this resource is effective at both promoting engagement and enhancing learning. There are several built-in rounds of questions to build students' understanding in your topics, including: - Identifying terms from definitions - Anagrams of key terms round - Recalling the highest level knowledge. The nature of the game ensures that this resource can challenge students of all levels. NOTE: You can buy this resource alone, or in a bundle of 8 Pointless games, for only £1 more!

This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students revising knowledge relating to the UK and Brazil, as a part of their study of their KS2 place, human and physical geography. It contains comprehensive sections on: Key Facts Overview and Maps; Physical Geography Comparison; Human Geography Comparison; 10 Key Comparison Facts; Key Vocabulary. The organiser is designed to help children to learn the relevant place, human and physical geography knowledge from the KS2 Geography National Curriculum: -understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a region of the United Kingdom and a region in South America. -physical geography, including: climate zones, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes -human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy. 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).

Here you will find an assembly based on Walk to School Week but could be used at any time during the year. The presentation is fully editable.

UPDATED WITH ANSWER SHEETS AND TEACHER NOTES MAY 2019 There are 7 Lesson Plans (with learning objectives) and Presentations. Worksheets and practical activities for whole group teaching. Please see Preview Panes. The pack consists of: -Sound and how sound travels including sound waves, vibrations, pitch, volume; -The sounds we can make with our voices and what happens; -How we hear; -How some animals hear; -How to get sound from different musical instruments and what happens; and -The type of listening devices we use to locate sound, stethoscopes, hearing aids etc. 19 audio sounds for listening activities (MP3 audio) Lesson 1: This is about how we use our voice and the different sounds we make. There is a diagram of how our voice works which includes vibration, pitch and how we need our teeth and tongue to produce sounds. Activity: students are given a very short text to add vocal sound effects to in their groups - narrator/reader reads the short text (print this off the Slide) and the other students decide on vocal sound effects to add. Lesson 2:- This is about musical instruments and how we produce sound from them (bang, hit, shake, pluck etc.) and group them into their categories (wind, stringed, percussion)- Grouping Activity sheets and Listening activity. Lesson 3 - This is more practical and students plan and design their musical instruments. They are given ideas on what to do, e.g. make a guitar from cereal boxes, the handle is made of kitchen towel tube, strings are various sizes of elastic bands etc. Lesson 4: This is about how we ear (also video youtube link - Children learn about the anatomy of the ear (outer ear, middle ear and inner ear) and how we receive and process sound. They also learn about why we get dizzy (semi-circular canals in our ear is filled with fluid). There are worksheet activities and Listening activities on PowerPoint Presentations. Lesson 5: This lesson is about different listening devices such as the stethoscope, ear trumpets that were used in the past and versions of it that are used to hear unborn babies. Students: make ear trumpets and pot telephones learning how sound travels to the ear via the string attached to the plastic cups. Students test different cups and length of strings. Lesson 6: This lesson is about how some animals move their ears to hear sounds and locate their prey. - Activities: Students work with a partner to complete their worksheets with missing words. Lesson 7: Investigation - Explores sounds get quieter when you are further away from its source - Sounds for Kids All the lessons include information on volume, pitch, vibrations and sound waves. All lessons contained in a .zip file - PowerPoint, PDF and MS Word files. This is a US version. Please see UK version Thank you for visiting my store.

Ofsted Preparation: Deep Dives and The Primary Geography Subject Leader Ofsted- One word that can fill teachers full of dread! I have spoken to thousands of teachers over the years and many panic about Ofsted. So, I decided to create a power point to enable teachers to prepare for Ofsted and to understand the process. I hope this power point helps reduce fear/ anxiety and you will be able to put your focus back on teaching your class and leading your team. I have also included basic facts about the whole process. It has taken me 40 hours to create and streamline the framework. This will help you build confidence and be Ofsted ready. Information covered: • What is Ofsted? • What happens why you get the Ofsted call? • Ofsted judgement- criteria 1- Quality in Education- 3I’s • What is the intent? • What is your school’s geography vision? • Creating a geography curriculum • Cultural capital and CPD • What is the implementation? • Monitoring geography • What is the impact? • How are you measuring impact? • How will intent, implementation and impact be judged? • Helping your team to prepare for a geography deep dive • What is the geography deep dive? • Help prepare your team for the debrief • Subject leader basic preparation • Subject leader check list Includes: • A power point • Sources: Pixabay (unless stated) & quotes from the framework • Format-Non-editable PPT • ©Love Learning Geography Follow: my Facebook & Instagram page- link in bio (preview available) I will have a fully edible CPD version available in the future. Other resources: Primary Geography Subject Leaders Guide https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/primary-geography-subject-leaders-guide-12587925 Ofsted Preparation- The Primary Geography Teacher https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ofsted-preparation-the-primary-geography-teacher-12629514 Thank you for looking at my resources. If you download or purchase any of my resources, I would really appreciate the feedback. I would love to hear from you! **I hope your students love learning geography :) ** T&C By purchasing my resources, you are agreeing that the contents are the property of Love Learning Geography and licensed to you only for classroom/personal use as a single user. I retain copyright and reserve all rights to this product. You are not permitted to resell or share this item. You may not share it anywhere online.

This unit of work provides resources and templates for creating a passion project. What is a passion project? A passion project provides an opportunity for students to integrate what they are passionate about in the classroom. Passion projects provide opportunity for student voice and choice and as a result focuses on fostering student strengths in the classroom. What does this Passion Project Planning Guide Include?? This planning guide is a 16 page editable and interactive PDF to guide you through the process of creating a passion project in your class and includes: Tips and guidelines for creating a passion project Assignment guidelines for a passion project and associated e-portfolio A Passion Project Unit Overview with 5 hyperlinked lesson plan lesson plan templates A Passion Project Rubric Template A Passion Project Planning Guide Template Curriculum Outcomes This project was initially created for a Grade 11 Communications Technology course. However, this project could be modified to be incorporated into any Key Stage 1-5 classes. This project would work particularly well for Key Stage 3, 4, and 5 English, History, Technology and Design, Math or Science course.

Guess the country quiz! Round 1 – name the country from the flag – 30 flags with answers. Round 2 – remember the country from round 1 and try to guess and order the population size. 3 sets of 5 puzzles with answers. See my home page for more great lessons, bundles and resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish

A fun plenary or starter game for any subject or topic that doesn't need any preparation. On each slide there are 16 squares with five treasures hidden behind them. Students answer a question and if they get it right they choose a square and get a point/sweet/sticker if they find a treasure. There are 11 slides with treasures hidden in different places and the slide to be used can be chosen randomly by clicking the spinning wheel on the first slide. This activity is based on the gamification theory that random rewards make games more addictive and fun. Note: In presentation mode click on squares to make them disappear and reveal the treasures.

Climbing Mount Everest Descriptive Writing - Complete Lesson Complete one-off descriptive writing lesson with all the resources included, easy to teach! Attractive Power Point includes: * Literacy starter * Lesson objectives (with the focus on sentence structure, but this could be tweaked to suit) * Map of Everest * Video clip * Discussion prompts * Main task and review prompts Descriptive word mat and lesson starter included. A simple but effective lesson. For more great lessons and resources, visit my page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Royalty free images taken from You Tube.)

A CPD session created to develop questioning and higher order questioning strategies. Image credits slide added.

This is just a picture of a brain on A4. You write the topic title or the question on the left and then print out. (You could duplicate the page and then print both onto A4 so each is A5). Each student then fills it with what they know. e.g. **At the start of a lesson to recall everything they remember from yesterday, etc. **During the lesson to summarize or capture all the key information from e.g. a presentation or fact sheet. **At the end of the lesson to recap everything they've learnt. I've edited the picture of the brain to make it easier to write on with less bits to fill in. The student's can order their writing around the brain in any order they choose. It's not my idea and I've not use it yet so interested in any feedback. If you like this and find it useful then please leave positive feedback and do check out my shop which includes many premium resources which may help save you time and give you ideas. Cheers

A PowerPoint lesson plan that could be used for Geography or RE teaching. Covers the story of bread from wheat seed to bread on the table. Has a Christian element looking at what harvest festival is and thanking god for the food we receive. Sequence the pictures from Grain Chain.

The ‘Be a Great Barrier Reef Explorer’ Education Pack is aimed at Key Stage 2 pupils, but can be easily adapted for Key Stage 1 class projects or for independent research at Key Stage 3. The education pack promotes children becoming advocates of the need to protect worldwide coral reefs. As the UK National Curriculum is currently changing, this pack will support any class looking to explore learning in Science, Geography, English and Citizenship. www.firstnews.co.uk/forschools

Powerpoint presentation of things that we see in the Autumn. Very simple . Photographs and titles with an Autumn poem at the end for Foundation stage and a slightly harder poem for older children.