Lesson Four – Weather Postcards
This geography teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to design and produce a series of postcards to describe the climate and weather that can be found in different European countries.
The class can identify and record how the weather changes between northern and southern Europe during different seasons of the year to use when composing their postcard recounts.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to design and produce a series of postcards to describe the climate and weather that can be found in different European countries
Activities in this teaching pack include a display poster to identify the location of different countries that are part of Europe, a shared reading text to describe countries that are part of Europe from written descriptions about weather and climate and a vocabulary word bank and writing template to structure and format a postcard to describe the weather that can be found in a European country.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to produce postcards to describe the climate that can be found in different European countries.
This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get the children to investigate the different political and physical features that can be found in countries that are part of the continent of Europe. 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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