Lesson One – Postcards and Souvenirs

This geography teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore how to produce and present postcards that can be to sent to friends describing somewhere special that could be visited on a family holiday.

The class can list collections of special objects that can be used to compare different locations that families could visit on holiday such as a lake or mountain location.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to produce and present postcards that can be to sent to friends describing somewhere special that could be visited on a family holiday

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe different locations that could be visited on a family holiday and differentiated templates to write and present recounts of a visit to a specific location describing somewhere special that could be visited on a family holiday.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to produce postcards that can be sent to friends describing somewhere special that could be visited on a family holiday.

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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