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Year 2 Geography Curriculum (Summer)

Second Half Term

Going To The Seaside

6 x 80minute lessons   Cross-Curricular: Art, ICT, English
Learning Outcomes Teaching Ideas and Learning Context ICT/Whiteboard Resources
Level 1: Name city in which they live and identify it on a map of UK.  Name some physical and human features of the locality.
Level 2: Correctly describe features of the countryside and features of the city.
Level 3: Know where the seaside is in relation to their own locality. Describe a seaside locality and its human and natural features.
Level 4:Express likes and dislikes of a seaside area.  Discuss ways to improve.
Level 5:  Identify differences in the seaside from the past to today.  Identify features from the past (pier/prom/theatres/hotels
Week 1: Recap previous work.  Look at map and identify England, Scotland, Wales and N.Ireland.    Discuss some seaside places ch. have visited.  Children have map of UK, colour, label and name 4 countries and capital cities. Identify Birmingham. Colour blue round the coast.
Week 2: Discuss the terms city and countryside, introduce the term seaside/coast.  Discuss differences between city and seaside.  Draw two pictures one of each locality.  Write about how they differ.
Week 3: Look at natural and human features of the seaside and draw/write about them. Look at Coxhoe differences at the seaside site.  Identify buildings only found at the seaside. (huts/pier, etc)
Week 4: Discuss flotsam and jetsam.  Discuss recycling and how rubbish ruins our coastline and endgangers animals.
Week 5: Make a poster to encourage visitors to your seaside town.  Discuss how people could travel there.
Week 6: Teacher produced assessment test. State likes and dislikes about seaside areas.  Say how they could encourage visitors today. What facilities would you like to experience.
Primary Resources on line
Coxhoe-Durham
Multimodal texts – Audio, Seaside Holiday.
Google earth. Images of Birmingham and the seaside.
Flotsam and Jetsam (floating due to sea, jettisoned by people on board).
Pos Requirements: Unit Assessment General Resources
1a,2a,2c,2d,2e,3a,3b. Teacher created own Test at end of half-term.