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

• Arrange for Barnaby Bear to be taken with parents, children, staff or governors when they visit places away from school, and for him to send postcards back to school or be photographed in these places.

• With the children's help, create a wall display of the postcards and photographs and a series of maps that identify Barnaby's destinations. Lower attaining children may be asked to sort the cards or photographs into labelled piles, eg local/not local, like/don't like, sunny/cloudy.
• Arrange for each class to take on the role of looking after Barnaby's corner or 'home' for a time. He needs a suitable home to be constructed in a prominent place.

• 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.

• Ask the children to look at pictures of Barnaby using different types of transport and the places he visited and, for each, say whether it is a long way away, whether he would have to cross sea, mountains or rivers, or drive along a motorway, and then decide what would be the best way for him to travel to the place.
• Ask the children to draw a graph to show the number of times Barnaby used different types of transport in a given time and find out which type of transport he used most.
• Ask the children to think about how long the journeys took him.