Lesson Five – Street Vehicles

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to conduct and present the results from a survey to record the number of different vehicles that can be seen along a street close to the school.

The class can identify and explain how and why each identified vehicle might be used along a street or road in the local community for a range of specific purposes and functions.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to conduct and present the results from a survey to record the number of different vehicles that can be seen along a street close to the school

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe the function of different types of vehicles, a template to count and record numbers of vehicles seen on one street in the local area close to the school using a pictogram and a set of cards to make and label models of different types of vehicles that might be seen on a street.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to conduct a survey to record the number of different vehicles that can be seen in a street close to the school.

This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and compare different types of buildings and objects that can be found on a street or road that is part of the school neighbourhood. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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