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Lesson Four – Seaside Living
This geography teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explain and model how to write a reply to a letter from a pen pal living at the seaside to research and find out more information about the location.
The class can practise using their completed letters to identify and record comparisons between living in their own home location with living in a seaside town.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and model how to write a reply to a letter from a pen pal living at the seaside to research and find out more information about the location
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe some of the special things that can happen in a seaside location and differentiated letters to structure and format a letter to describe a specific location and make comparisons between living in their own home and a seaside town.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to write a reply to a letter from a pen pal living at the seaside to research and find out more information about the location.
This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and compare the physical and political geography of a seaside location with some other places found 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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