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Geography at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 3)

Unit 7: Weather around the world
Section 3: Where can we go on holiday? How will we get there?

QCA

Objectives
Children should learn:
  • to ask and respond to geographical questions
  • how places relate to each other
  • to use and interpret atlases and maps
  • about weather conditions around the world

Activities

Outcomes
Children:
  • Divide the children into small groups and ask them to decide where they will send a person with particular likes, dislikes and needs on holiday this summer. This could be someone they know or they could use profiles of fictitious people to ensure that a range of holidays, in terms of weather and climate, are considered. When each group has chosen a holiday destination, ask them to locate the place, using an atlas, and identify the climatic zone. Then ask them to mark, on a base map of the UK or world, the route from 'home' to the holiday destination and state the type of transport they would use. Information from all groups could be collated and transferred to a whole class display.
  • make and justify decisions about best locations for holidays based on specified criteria

Points to note
Literacy: the enquiry can be linked to work on note making, the importance of establishing what needs to be researched. Children could be encouraged to consider different formats for recording information to decide which is appropriate.

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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