Lesson Five – City or Countryside

This geography teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to investigate how to compare and contrast some of the special physical and political features that can be found in different locations around the world.

The class can practise selecting and recording lists of some of the different things that can be seen and used by families in either a city or countryside location.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to compare and contrast some of the special physical and political features that can be found in different locations around the world

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to compare and contrast some of the physical and political features that can be found in city and countryside locations and a template to select and record physical and political features that can be found in different locations [enlarge to A3].

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to compare and contrast some of the physical and political features that can be found in different locations.

This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and compare some of the different physical and political geographical features of cities with other locations 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.

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