Italy

This geography scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore and record how cities and other locations in Italy are physically and politically the same or different from similar places in the United Kingdom. The class can use atlases and maps to record the location of different places in Italy.

Explore and record how cities and other locations in Italy are physically and politically the same or different from similar places in the United Kingdom

Lesson One : Mapping Italy
Identify, describe and compare some of the different special locations that can be found in Italy by recording places using a map

Lesson Two : Italian Foods
Explore how to identify, taste and evaluate some different samples of Italian foods to describe and compare life in Italy with another location

Lesson Three : Italian Cities
Investigate how to describe and compare living in a specific city in Italy with a similar matching location that can be found in the United Kingdom

Lesson Four : Italian Penpal
Practise composing and presenting a reply to a letter from an Italian penpal to explore life in Italy and make comparisons to similar aspects of life in the United Kingdom

Lesson Five : Visiting Venice
Explore how to collect and record facts and information to describe and compare a city that can be found in Italy with a similar location in another country

Lesson Six : Italy Quiz
Explore how to identify and record some true and false facts about the physical and political geography of the country of Italy as part of a class quiz
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