Suitable for Key Stage 1 & 2
Bringing 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 world. 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
Geography workshops:
1) 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 and in-role 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.
Key areas include:
- Map reading
- Co-ordinates
- Scale
- Keys
- Grids
- Comparing places
- Analyzing evidence/drawing conclusions
- Identify different view points
2) The Recycling Machine (environment/pollution)
Investigating sustainability through a creative framework, you class will look at issues of pollution and its impact on our environment, reporting their findings as a newspaper journalists. Your class will look into solutions into how to make our community sustainable, as well as inventing a recycling machine along the way!
Key areas include:
- Newspaper writing
- Impact on the environment
- Recognizing physical/human processes
- Recognizing how to improve the environment
- Sustainability
- Investigation/fieldwork.
3) 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.
Keys areas include:
- Global geography
- Comparing environments (North Pole/Caribbean)
- Using secondary sources (e.g photographs/stories)
- Recording information/data.
- Describe what places are like
- Weather conditions
This programme is part of our Affordable Arts scheme for Lewisham, Southwark and Tower Hamlets
Find our more about Affordable Arts