Activities in this teaching pack include shared reading texts to explain why someone might need to take and use special objects when visiting somewhere special and a template to select and record a list of items needed for a visit to a specific location on holiday.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to describe and compare different locations by recording and compiling lists for special family trips.

This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and compare the physical and political geography of different locations that families could visit on holiday around the world. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.