Lesson Four – Forest or River
This geography teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise designing and building different maps to record some of the special physical and political features that can be found in either a forest or river environment.
The class can identify and explain the meaning of some of the different shapes and symbols that might be used on a map to indicate the location of a specific feature.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise designing and building different maps to record some of the special physical and political features that can be found in either a forest or river environment
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to describe events and experiences that can happen in a forest or rural location and identify map symbols that can be used to represent different physical and political features and a worksheet to build a map to record some of the special physical and political features that can be found in a forest location.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to design different maps to record some of the physical and political features that can be found in either a forest or river environment.
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.
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