Lesson Four – Earthquake Life
This geography teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise writing and presenting a reply to a pen pal letter to investigate and record the impact of earthquakes on some different locations around the world.
The class can explain and illustrate their geographical understanding of how earthquakes can affect some different communities in the world such as the destruction of buildings.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise writing and presenting a reply to a pen pal letter to investigate and record the impact of earthquakes on some different locations around the world
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe the impact of earthquakes on locations around the world and a template to write a reply to a letter to investigate and record how earthquakes can affect landscapes and populations.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to write a reply to a pen pal letter to investigate the impact of earthquakes on locations around the world.
This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get the children to investigate and record some of the different causes and effects of earthquakes on locations around the world by making models and writing reports. 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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