Lesson One – What Buildings
This geography teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore how to identify, describe and compare the function of some of the different types of buildings that can be found in an urban environment.
The class can practise producing and describing a model of the front of a building that someone could visit and use when living in a city location to identify its matching function.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to identify, describe and compare the function of some of the different types of buildings that can be found in an urban environment
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the different types of buildings that can be found in an urban location and a template to select and record information about a type of building that someone could visit and use in a city.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to describe and compare the function of some of the different buildings that can be found in an urban environment.
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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