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Lesson One – What Location
This geography teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify, describe and record some of the similarities and differences between a range of different locations that can be found around the world.
The can select and make lists of some of the special things that can be seen in one and multiple places that have the same matching physical features.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify, describe and record some of the similarities and differences between a range of different locations that can be found around the world
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of different physical features found around the world and a template to select and record some of the similarities and differences between pairs of locations that can be found around the world.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore and record some of similarities and differences between a range of different locations found around the world with matching physical features.
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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