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Lesson Six – Island Postcard

This geography teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise writing some holiday postcards to identify and compare the physical and political features of islands with other locations found around the world.
The class can suggest and record some of the special events and experiences that they might see and do when on holiday on the Isle of Skye off the North West coast of Scotland.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise writing some holiday postcards to identify and compare the physical and political features of islands with other locations found around the world
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe events and experiences that could be completed on a holiday to an island and differentiated templates to select and list some of the special things that could happen when on a holiday trip to an island location.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to write holiday postcards to identify and compare the physical and political features of islands with other locations.
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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