KS1 - Continents & Oceans

Take your oceans and continents learning outdoors and add movement to your lessons. In this unit for Years 1 and 2, your children will use natural loose parts to represent their thinking, complete large-scale map work and use the outdoors to compare the United Kingdom with a non-European country.

Lesson Plans

Locating the world’s continents

During this outdoor lesson your children will work practically, creating large-scale world maps to help them name and locate the world’s continents. They’ll have the opportunity to extend this by beginning to think about countries that can be found in the different continents.

Learning objective:

To name and locate the world’s seven continents.

Describing human features using geographical vocabulary

The main activity of this outdoor lesson requires your children to use their understanding of geographical vocabulary to work collaboratively to create models of European man-made structures, while extending their knowledge of countries in Europe.

Learning objective:

To use geographical vocabulary to describe human features. Focus: Europe

Describing physical features using geographical vocabulary

Deliver a hands-on outdoor lesson that tasks your children with using natural loose parts to learn more about the physical features of the two focus continents, ensuring they secure their geographical vocabulary.

Learning objective:

To use geographical vocabulary to describe physical features. Focus: Asia and North America

Identifying hot and cold areas of the world

During this outdoor lesson your class will work practically to focus on understanding the location of hot and cold areas in the world. This is an engaging, low preparation, low-resource lesson!

Learning objective:

To identify hot and cold areas of the world. Focus: Africa, Australasia and South America

Discussing similarities and differences between Antarctica and the UK

Deliver an experience your children will not forget during this outdoor lesson! Taking children on a trek through Antarctica and giving them the opportunity to explore and discuss the differences and similarities through role play, movement, investigation to look at the human and physical geography.

Learning objective:

To discuss similarities and differences of the UK with a non-European location. Focus: Antarctica

Naming the world’s oceans

The main activity of this outdoor lesson gives children the opportunity to apply their knowledge of the five oceans through exploration. Children will work collaboratively to create an immersive journey through the oceans, guaranteed to be a fun lesson for all!

Learning objective:

To name the world’s five oceans.

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