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Lesson Four – Island Schools
This geography teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore how to describe and compare school life for different primary and secondary aged pupils living on an island with a matching mainland location.
The class can practise composing and presenting a letter to a pupil at an island school to identity and record comparisons with their own schooling and education.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to describe and compare school life for different primary and secondary aged pupils living on an island with a matching mainland location
Activities in this teaching pack include shared reading texts to describe a stage of schooling and education on an island for primary and secondary aged pupils, a table display card to identify answers to questions that can be used to compare schools in different locations to support letter writing and a template to write a letter to compare schooling for pupils living on an island with a mainland location.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore and compare school life for primary and secondary aged pupils living on an island with a mainland location.
This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get the children to identify, record and compare some of the physical and political geographical features specific to islands 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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