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QCA

Geography at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 3)

Unit 7: Weather around the world

QCA

Objectives

Section 1: Why do people go on holiday? Where have we been on holiday?
Children should learn:
  • to investigate places
  • to use and interpret globes, atlases and maps

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Section 2: Where are hot and cold places located on a world map?
Children should learn:
  • to ask and respond to geographical questions
  • to recognise patterns
  • to use geographical vocabulary
  • about weather conditions around the world

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Section 3: Where can we go on holiday? How will we get there?
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

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Section 4: What is the place like? How is it similar to, and different from, our locality?
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

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Section 5: How do we decide what we need to take with us?
Children should learn:
  • about the effect of weather on human activity

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Section 6: What will the weather be like? How will it affect what we do?
Children should learn:
  • to ask and respond to geographical questions
  • to use geographical vocabulary
  • about weather conditions around the world

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Section 7: Which places have we 'visited'?
Children should learn:
  • to investigate places
  • to use and interpret atlases and maps

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Section 8: General
Children should learn:

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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