Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe events and experiences that can happen in an urban or rural location, a worksheet to compose a letter to a pen pal to present information about what makes a particular location special and distinct from other areas and a set of cards to identify and match events and experiences that can happen in an urban or rural location.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore and compare some of the physical and political features that can be found in urban and rural environments.

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.