Snow Facts
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how to read and write explanations to explain how and why different forms of snow can occur in a range of locations around the world.
The class can research and collect facts and information about the impact of snow on populations and landscapes to support their explanatory writing about something that happens.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to explore how to read and write explanations to explain how and why different forms of snow can occur in a range of locations around the world
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to describe how to structure and format an explanation about a type of weather that can affect the world, a worksheet to research and record notes and information as preparation for writing an explanation about a type of weather, a template to write an explanation to explain how and why snow occurs around the world and a worksheet to edit and make corrections to an explanatory text.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to read and write explanations to explain how and why snow occurs around the world.
This lesson can support development in learning how to format and structure a explanation about how and why something happens. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and an interactive presentation to introduce concepts and key skills.
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Ordering and Changing
Explore and record how to order three digit numbers by the place value of their digits and how the digits in a number change their numerical values when finding ten and one hundred more or less
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Changing Hundreds
Explore and record the matching number sums that are one hundred more and less than different three digit numbers to show changes to the place values of their numerical digits
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Digit Changes
Identify and record the matching number sums that are ten less than different three digit numbers by illustrating changes to the values of their hundreds, tens and ones digits
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Changing Numbers
Identify and record number sums that are ten more than different three digit numbers using abacus diagrams to model their changing values