Lesson One – European Capitals
This geography teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and locate some of the different countries and name their matching capital cities that are part of the European continent in the world.
The class can practise using atlases to find and record the locations of the matched capital cities in each European country and suggest what makes them special.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and locate some of the different countries and name their matching capital cities that are part of the European continent in the world
Activities in this teaching pack include a display poster to identify the location of different countries that are part of Europe and differentiated sets of cards to select and match the names of different European countries with their correct capital cities when playing games.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore and and locate some of the different countries and their matching capitals that are part of Europe.
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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