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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Name and locate the seven continents on a world map.
- Locate the North and the South Poles on a world map.
- Locate the Equator on a world map.
- Describe some similarities and differences between the UK and Kenya.
- Investigate the weather, writing about it using key vocabulary and explaining whether they live in a hot or cold place.
- Recognise the features of hot and cold places.
- Locate some countries with hot or cold climates on a world map.
Lesson 5 involves fieldwork on the school grounds. It is important to risk-assess the proposed route taking into account any relevant school risk assessment policies and procedures. Refer to the Before the lesson section in Lesson 5 to prepare for this lesson. Please be aware this lesson may take longer than 1 hour.
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Where are the continents?
Lesson 2: Where are the coldest places on Earth?
Lesson 3: Where is the Equator?
Lesson 4: What is life like in a hot place?
Lesson 5: Do we live in a hot or cold place?
Lesson 6: Would you prefer to live in a hot or cold place?
Key skills
- Locating all
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Key knowledge
- To know
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Key vocabulary
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Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
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Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Globe ×8
- Class set of atlases ×15
- Class set of clipboards ×30
- Thermometer ×1
- Rain gauge ×1
- Compasses ×15
- Sticky notes
The equipment below is optional
- Inflatable globe ×1
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Knowledge organiser: Geography – Y2 Would you prefer to live in a hot or cold place?
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit "Would you prefer to live…
Vocabulary display: Would you prefer to live in a hot or cold place?
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit 'Would you prefer to live in a hot or cold place?'.
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English
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments
- listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers
- give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, including for expressing feelings’
See National curriculum - English key stages 1 to 2.
British values: Mutual respect.
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