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QCA

Geography at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 3)

Unit 7: Weather around the world
Section 2: Where are hot and cold places located on a world map?

QCA

Objectives

Children should learn:
  • to ask and respond to geographical questions
  • to recognise patterns
  • to use geographical vocabulary
  • about weather conditions around the world

Activities

Outcomes

Children:
  • Discuss with the children where hot and cold places tend to be located through discussion of holidays and atlas work, introducing the idea of climatic zones.
  • identify hot and cold places in an atlas or on a globe

Sections in this unit

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1. Why do people go on holiday? Where have we been on holiday?
2. Where are hot and cold places located on a world map?
3. Where can we go on holiday? How will we get there?
4. What is the place like? How is it similar to, and different from, our locality?
5. How do we decide what we need to take with us?
6. What will the weather be like? How will it affect what we do?
7. Which places have we 'visited'?
8. General