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Lesson Three – Island People
This geography teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to investigate how to identify, describe and compare some of the different jobs that can be completed and performed by the residents living on an island.
The class can practise compiling written reports describing one of the jobs that somebody could perform when living 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 investigate how to identify, describe and compare some of the different jobs that can be completed and performed by the residents living on an island
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the different jobs that can be completed on an island, shared reading texts to describe the jobs of a crofter, harbour master, shop worker and fisherman on the Isle of Skye and differentiated templates to select and describe different aspects of a job that can be completed on an island location.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore and describe some of the different jobs that can be completed by the residents living on an island.
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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