Activity 4: Exploring world landscapes

Exploring global landscapes through Bear's travels to compare and contrast diverse environments with their own.

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Learning goal

  • To compare different landscapes around the world.

EYFS outcomes

Development matters

Understanding the world 

  • Recognise some similarities and differences between life in this country and life in other countries.
  • Recognise some environments that are different from the one in which they live.

Characteristics of effective learning 

  • Creating and thinking critically.

See Development Matters (non-statutory curriculum guidance).

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Support and challenge

Adults can use the opportunity to discuss and/or support with: 

  • Setting up a packing for our journey area with suitcases, clothes and items suitable for different weather conditions. The children can choose a destination (landscape) they learned about and pack a suitcase with what they think they need.
  • Picking two contrasting labels and asking the children to sort the images into just two categories to start.
  • Prompting the children to create their own groups to sort the pictures into.

Key vocabulary

  • desert

  • land

  • map

  • postcard

  • rainforest

  • travel

  • waterfall

  • weather

Curriculum opportunities

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In this topic

Created by:
Kapow Primary, 
Geography specialist
Activity 3: City or countryside? Previous Lesson
Activity 5: Desert explorers Next Lesson

Activity 5: Desert explorers

Activity 2: Bear’s UK travels

Activity 1: Home or away?

Activity 3: City or countryside?

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