Unit 7: Weather around the world Section 4: What is the place like? How is it similar to, and different from, our locality?
Objectives
Children should learn:
to investigate places
to ask and respond to geographical questions
to use secondary sources
about weather conditions around the world
to identify similarities and differences
to use ICT to access information
Activities
Outcomes
Children:
Ask each group to research what their chosen holiday destination is like using selected information, which could include photographs, CD-ROMs, pictures from holiday brochures, atlases and general literature.
Ask the children to use a prepared overlay keyboard file or a multimedia resource to find out about life in the chosen locality. Help the children to search the file for answers to enquiry questions that focus on the similarities and differences between their own locality and lifestyle and that in the chosen destination.
research and record evidence to answer their own questions and/or those set by the teacher
obtain information about a locality using ICT
understand that weather conditions vary from place to place
Points to note
To answer the enquiry questions, focus activities on specific questions, eg What is the weather like? What leisure activities do people do?
IT: there are links with IT when children use an overlay keyboard file or multimedia resource.
Literacy: the work on vocabulary associated with weather can form part of ongoing work on collecting and defining words.
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