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Lesson Five – Local Shopping
This geography teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate, locate and compare some of the different types of shops that can be found in the local area for families to use.
The class can select and record reasons as to how the building of a new type of shop might benefit the school neighbourhood.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to investigate, locate and compare some of the different types of shops that can be found in the local area for families to use
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe commercial and shopping activities that can happen in the local area and a template to select and record some of the benefits of a new shop in the local area.
The interactive presentation gets the children to investigate, locate and compare some of the different shops that can be found in the local area.
This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and compare some of the different political and physical features that can be found in the local area around the school neighbourhood. 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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