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Lesson Two – Land Use
This geography teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate and record some of the different types of land use that can be found in different locations around the local community.
The class can use a map key to record and classify different areas and their usage that are located around the school’s neighbourhood.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to investigate and record some of the different types of land use that can be found in different locations around the local community
Activities in this teaching pack include shared reading texts to identify and describe some of the different types of land use that can be found in the local community and a vocabulary word bank to help identify some of the different types of land use that can be found in the local area.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to record some of the different types of land use that can be found in the local community.
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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