Lesson Five – Scotland and Edinburgh

This geography teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify and describe how the country of Scotland is the same or different as other locations in the United Kingdom.

The class can make a model of a souvenir that could be bought on a family holiday to Edinburgh as the capital city of Scotland and suggest how it reflects life in this part of the UK.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and describe how the country of Scotland is the same or different as other locations in the United Kingdom

Activities in this teaching pack include a set of display posters listing some of the different things that could be seen and experienced when visiting Edinburgh as the capital city of Scotland and a template to describe how a holiday souvenir can reflect and illustrate what makes life in Scotland special and distinct from other regions in the UK.

The interactive presentation gets the children to identify the location of the city of Edinburgh as the capital of Scotland and suggest what makes the location special and distinct from other locations in the UK.

This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get the children to Identify the name and location of the four main countries in the UK and describe their matching capital cities  and investigate the seas that surround each country. 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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