Lesson One – School Journey
This geography teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and describe some of the different hazards and dangers that might be experienced during a journey to school by walking or using other forms of transport.
The class can explain and model how to produce a map of the local area using a colour key to record traffic and road dangers that can be seen in the school’s neighbourhood.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and describe some of the different hazards and dangers that might be experienced during a journey to school by walking or using other forms of transport
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe examples of road safety features that might be seen in the local area and a worksheet to select and mark the locations of different road safety features on a map of the local area.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the hazards and dangers that might be experienced during a journey to school by walking or using other forms of transport.
This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and compare some of the different traffic hazards and dangers that can be encountered when making journeys in the local area. 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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