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QCA

Geography at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 1/2)

Unit 5: Where in the world is Barnaby Bear?
Section 3: What will it be like when Barnaby is there?

QCA

Objectives

Children should learn:
  • to recognise features of places
  • identify types of weather experienced in places and seasonal change and their effects on people

Activities

Outcomes

Children:
  • Ask the children to describe what the places Barnaby visits are like and what sort of weather he might have experienced, using the postcards and photographs received.
  • With the children's help, set up a holiday table near the display. Ask children to choose, for example, the type of weather gear he may need for each place he visits and decide whether he needs his passport.
  • Ask the traveller who took Barnaby to either write a short diary or provide a weather report. Ask the children to compare this with what they thought the weather would be like.
  • Create a display of simple artefacts to show the life of the country visited, eg a newspaper, coins, food packaging and other everyday things.
  • show an interest in the world around them
  • develop a deeper understanding of the notion of travel to other places
  • understand that weather conditions in other countries may be different from those they are experiencing at the same time
  • are aware of similarities and differences between other countries and their own

Points to note

Mathematics: these activities could link with work on classifying, representing and interpreting data, and understanding and using measures.

Sections in this unit

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1. Where has Barnaby Bear travelled to this week or month?
2. Can we find these places on a map?
3. What will it be like when Barnaby is there?
4. How did Barnaby travel to these places?