For Key Stage 1 & 2
Bring the atlas and textbook to life! Develop your pupils engagement and understanding of Geography as a team of explorers invite your pupils to take part in an adventure of enquiry and discovery across the globe. Journey to a volcano, save the forest from tree cutters, treck to the north pole and unearth secrets of the world.
Topics include:
- Landscape/Environments
- Deforestation
- Pollution
- The wider world
- Maps and co-ordinates
Current workshops on offer:
- The Mayor's Town Planners (investigating maps/co-ordinates)
The Mayor invites your class to put their map and grid skills to the test by becoming town planners in this interactive project. The town has been badly designed, the school is next to the motorway, the supermarket in the middle of a field, and the farm is cut off by the river. The class will practically explore designing a town, using key skills such as co-ordinates whilst investigating human/physical geography.
- The Recycling Machine (environment/pollution)
Investigating sustainability through a creative framework, your class will look at issues of pollution and its impact on our environment, reporting their findings as a newspaper journalists. Pupild will look at how to make our community sustainable, as well as inventing a recycling machine along the way!
- Where in the World? (knowledge/understanding of place)
Adventure ahoy! Dr. Explorer invites your pupils to take part in an adventure of enquiry and discovery across the world. Journey to a volcano, save the forest from tree cutters, trek to the North Pole and unearth secrets of the world.