Lesson Six – City Buildings

This geography teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore how to plan and record the design for a new building construction that can be located in a particular place in a city environment.
The class can identify and explain how and why a particular building might be used for different functions by the people living in a city location such as a library or museum.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to plan and record the design for a new building construction that can be located in a particular place in a city environment
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe different types of buildings that can be found in a city location, a set of cards to select and make models of city buildings and a template to record information about a type of building that can be found in a city location.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to plan and design a new building that can be located in a particular place in a city.
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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