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QCA

Geography at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 3)

Unit 7: Weather around the world

QCA

Outcomes

Section 1: Why do people go on holiday? Where have we been on holiday?
Children:
  • locate and describe places they have visited

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Section 2: Where are hot and cold places located on a world map?
Children:
  • identify hot and cold places in an atlas or on a globe

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Section 3: Where can we go on holiday? How will we get there?
Children:
  • make and justify decisions about best locations for holidays based on specified criteria

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

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Section 5: How do we decide what we need to take with us?
Children:
  • understand how weather conditions affect what they will need to take

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Section 6: What will the weather be like? How will it affect what we do?
Children:
  • show awareness of the impact of weather on human activity

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Section 7: Which places have we 'visited'?
Children:
  • show a developing awareness of different places around the world

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Section 8: General
Children:

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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