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Lesson 5: How has exploration changed?

Identifying changes and continuities between explorers from two time periods.
Ellen Macarthur

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

1. Recap and recall

Show the Presentation: Polar explorers.

Ask the children to imagine they are explorers who have been asked to travel urgently to the North Pole. Play the audio with sound effects to set the scene.

In pairs, give them two minutes to decide what they would need to take with them.

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