2 lessons covering UK Counties and Major Cities
Lesson 1: Counties in the UK
Learning objectives
Children should learn:
• the UK is divided into countries and counties.
Success criteria
Children can:
• understand that the countries in the UK are
divided into counties and can name some of the
counties.
Lesson 2: Major Cities in the UK
Learning objectives
Children should learn:
• about the major cities in the UK.
Success criteria
Children can:
• understand that there are a number of major
cities in the UK and can name and locate them.
Taken from LCP’s LKS2 Geography Resource File
7 activities to support the understanding of the Naples and Campania Region as part of a location study aimed at Keystage 2 children.
Activity 1: Where is Italy?
Activity 2: The Regions of Italy
Activity 3: Base Map of Naples and the Campania Region
Activity 4: Reading Train Timetables: Circumvesuviana line table (The train around the Bay of Naples).
Activity 5: Holiday Brochure
Activity 6: Understanding Volcanoes- The Vesuvius Crater
Activity 7: A Section Through a Volcano.
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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
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
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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 Geography Flipbook Activities Keystage 2 Years5&6
This unit contains 2 full lessons with lesson plan and resources.
Investigating rivers Flipbook
The water cycle Flipbook :The Amazon
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:
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
• about the River Amazon and its characteristics
Learning outcomes Children will be able to: • identify and explain each stage in the water cycle
Locate the Amazon on a map and identify some of its features (size,meanders,sediment,tributaries, environment through which it flows)
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
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1 lesson covering the distinction between human and physical features
Includes Worksheets
Learning objectives
Children can:
• distinguish human from physical features in the
landscape;
• begin to understand that the distinction between
human and physical is not always clear.
Success criteria
Children should be able to
• recognise physical and human features in the
environment;
• use geographical vocabulary to describe physical
and human features
Taken from LCP’s KS1 Geography Resource File
Taken from our Geography Flipbook Activities Keystage 2 Years5&6
This unit contains
Investigating rivers Flipbook :The water cycle
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 objectives Children should learn: • about the features of the water cycle • to sequence the components of the water cycle
Learning outcomes Children will be able to: • identify and explain each stage in the water cycle
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Lesson: My school address
Learning objectives
Children should learn:
• that everyone has a personal address;
• the significance of addresses, including the
school address.
Success criteria
Children can:
understand the importance of knowing addresses
particularly of their school
Taken from LCP’s KS1 Geography 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
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
1 lesson Plan: The geography of the United Kingdom and its surrounding sea
All worksheets included.
Learning objectives
Children should learn:
• the names of the countries of the UK;
• the names of the four capital cities of the UK;
• to identify characteristics of the four countries
and capital cities.
Success criteria
Children should be able to:
• name the countries of the UK;
• name the four capital cities of the UK;
• identify characteristics of the four countries and
capital cities
Lesson taken from LCP’s KS1 Geography Resource File
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A worksheet on the Watercycle.
Written for Year 4. Taken from KS2 Geography Resources File.
Downloadable as a PDF
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Learning Outside the Classroom from LCP is a cross curricular resource providing teachers with fun outdoor activities and great ideas to engage KS2 (years 3, 4, 5 & 6) .
This free outdoor learning resource pack takes a look at some of the subjects covered in Learning Outside the Classroom. A great intro or perfect to use on their own! Download and take a look.
• Local Area as a Learning Environment
• Iron Age
• Collecting Invertebrates
Also see KS1 Learning Outside the Classroom.
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
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
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
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
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