Unit 16 :
What’s in the news - Years 3 to 6
Geography
Year 3 to 6 -
Unit 18 -
Connecting ourselves to the world
Geography
Year 3 /4 -
Unit 21 -
How can we improve the area we can see from our window?
Geography Year 1 to 6 -
Unit 24 :
Passport to the
world
Geography Year 1 to 6 -
Unit 25 :
Geography and numbers
In which children develop geographical ideas
and skills by studying their own locality.
Geography
QCA 6
Power Point Slides
for unit 6
1-
Download the power point slide slide - click
on-
OPEN
- do not save it the class room computer.
2-
Click on Slide Show and then View Show for
full screen.
Unit 6: Investigating our local
area
Using a web
based map ask the children to use
progressively larger scales to locate a
region, county, village.
Ask the children to find the school site on
an electronic map and on an aerial
photograph.
Mapzone -
Ordnance Survey
Ask the children, in pairs, to identify land
use within a small area of their locality.
Collate the children’s findings using a
database or graphing program, and use to
present their results.
Data handling software i.e. Starting Graph,
Textease Database, Information Magic,
Information Workshop.
ICT
Coverage:
QCA
ICT 4d
QCA
ICT 3c
Children record land use around their local
area. Back in the classroom this information
is entered into a prepared (Number Magic)
spreadsheet.
Create a presentation to show potential
environmental concerns in the local area and
how they might be addressed.
Multimedia program i.e. Textease 2000;
PowerPoint; Illuminatus.
ICT
Coverage:
QCA
ICT 3a
Create a web page/site for a locality
studied.
Web design software i.e. Word, Publisher,
Hot Dog, Dreamweaver.
ICT
Coverage:
QCA
ICT 3a
Communicate by email with a class in a
contrasting locality who are also
investigating their local area. Send some
information or pictures as attachments.
ICT Coverage:
QCA
ICT 3e
The children carry out a car parking survey
and record and display their results on a
prepared (Starting Graph) table and graph.
WBOL
website:
Car Parking Survey activity. Starting
Graph program.
Unit 7
Weather around the world
It helps children to develop ideas about
weather conditions around the world.
Geography
QCA 7
Power Point Slides
for unit 7
1-
Download the power point slide slide - click
on-
OPEN
- do not save it the class room computer.
2-
Click on Slide Show and then View Show for
full screen.
Unit 7: Weather around the world
Gather data
about rain, temperature and/or wind. Put it
into a database and analyse the findings.
Database ie Textease Database; Information
Magic; Information Workshop.
ICT
Coverage:
QCA
ICT 3c
Design a postcard to send from their holiday
destination, with appropriate text and
graphics for the weather/climate.
ICT Coverage:
QCA
ICT 3a
Children, in groups, use a variety of
sources, including the Internet and CD-ROMs,
to research what their chosen holiday
destination is like.
Children could use a prepared multimedia
presentation to find out about life in the
chosen locality.
Internet, CD-ROMs, prepared presentation
about chosen locality.
Children can log onto the Internet to find
the weather for their chosen locality.
BBC
Weather forecast for the UK
Up to
date weather reports from round the
World
Use the webto search particular weather
conditions.
Teaching resources:
Websites for children to use to help develop
ideas about weather.