Let's explore cities.
Year 1
Unit Overview
This project teaches children about the physical and human characteristics of the United Kingdom, including an exploration of the characteristics and features of the capital city, London and our local city Manchester.
❇ MEMORABLE MOMENT
️✏️ WRITING OPPORTUNITIES
Throughout this unit of work we will be writing labels.
We will make a fact file to present our new knowledge.
🌳 LEARNING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM
In this unit of work we will use the local area and have a go at giving directions to our friends.
🏁 BIG FINISH
We will present our new knowledge in a fact file and share it with our class.
📖 FOCUS TEXT(S)
The class will be reading
The Queen's hat by Steve Anthony
Kids' Travel Guide London
We completely must go to London!
The Queen's Knickers by Nicholas Allan
Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been? By Russell Punter and Dan Taylor
Unit Sequence: Learning Intentions
Retrieval - The United Kingdom. To name and locate the four countries of the UK and their capital cities on a map, atlas or globe. Main -What can you see around you? Use basic geographical vocabulary to identify and describe physical features, such as beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil, valley and vegetation.
Retrieval -The United Kingdom. To name and locate the four countries of the UK and their capital cities on a map, atlas or globe. Main - What is a city? To identify the characteristics of a settlement. Focus on Manchester.
Retrieval - To locate and name continents on world map. Main - How does Middleton make you feel? Human features in the locality. To carry out fieldwork tasks to identify characteristics of the school grounds or locality and environmental issues, e.g. litter, graffiti. Focus on the children's emotional response.
Retrieval - To label continents and oceans on world map. Main - Why do people visit London? Identify the characteristics of a settlement. Focus on London.
Main - Identify features and landmarks on an aerial photograph or plan perspective. Can I be a map maker? Look at aerial photos and simple plans. Make your own garden plan.
Retrieval - Name and locate the four countries of the UK and their capital cities on a map, atlas or globe. Main - What can I remember? - Create a fact file.