10 Geography Lesson Plans for KS1 - Volume 1: Our School and the Local Area & An Island Home

By P S Quick

These 10 Geography Lesson plans cover the programs of study for Key Stage 1 Geography as set out in the National Curriculum and are based around the QCA topics ‘Our school and the local area' and ‘An Island Home' which studies a contrasting locality. Within each lesson are opportunities to develop geographical enquiry and skills through knowledge and understanding of places, patterns and processes, as well as development and change. Each lesson includes practical activities and as well as setting out lesson objectives and outcomes. The lesson plans also offer extension activities for cross-curricular work and ICT opportunities as well as assessment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AUK Academic
• Release date: Feb 8, 2010
• ISBN: 9781849895972

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The School and Local Area

Lesson 1

Where do we live?

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

Children will be able to talk about a familiar place.

They will identify different kinds of houses and say which are similar to their own.

They will learn that all pupils have a personal address and begin to become aware of the significance of each line.

National Curriculum Programs of Study

Geographical enquiry and skills 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d

Knowledge and understanding of places 3a, 3b,

Breadth of study 6a, 7a

Introduction

Before the lesson ask children to bring in photographs of their own houses.

Discuss with children what homes are for. Ask them to say what their own homes are like and why they are special to them.

Main Lesson

Look at a selection of pictures showing different kinds of houses – bungalows, town houses, etc. Label the different kinds of homes and ask if any children live in homes similar to these. Children could put themselves into groups and discuss what kinds of homes most people live in etc.

Tell children where you, the teacher lives and write the complete address on the whiteboard. Discuss with children the significance of each line of the address. Ask children to say where they live (the register might be a handy aid here!)

Help the children to write out their own addresses on small separate sheets of paper Any early finishers could draw a picture of their own house.

Bring the children back together and place their addresses on appropriate places on the local map.

Plenary

Locate the school on the