Lesson Six – Family Journeys

This geography teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify and record forms of transport and destinations for journeys that families can make to different locations when going on a special trip somewhere.
The class can practise writing a recount to suggest some of the things that might happen on a particular journey to illustrate what can be seen and experienced during the trip.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and record forms of transport and destinations for journeys that families can make to different locations when going on a special trip somewhere
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the places that families could visit on holiday and a template to select and record information about forms of transport and special locations that families could use and experience when on a holiday trip.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore and record forms of transport and special destinations for journeys that families can make to different locations.
This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get the children to identify and describe some of the different journeys that can be made around the school’s location, in the local neighbourhood and across the wider community. 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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