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Explore playgrounds with Dora

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Local Studies: Our School and Local Area Our Playground

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Objectives

Geography

  • Use world maps, atlases and globes to identify the United Kingdom and its countries as well as the countries, continents and oceans studied at this key stage.
  • Use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to: key physical/human features.

English

  • Give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, including for expressing feelings.

Lesson Planning

Children meet Dora the explorer. Dora has been learning all about playgrounds and has travelled the world collecting information. Children will travel the globe with Dora, they will examine playgrounds in other locations, show Dora their playground games and learn new ones along the way.

Teaching Outcomes
To describe playgrounds in contrasting locations, identify physical/human features.

Children will:

  • Locate landmarks and the 7 continents on a world map.
  • Describe geographical similarities and differences.
  • Identify human and physical features of contrasting locations.

You Will Need

  • Dora teddy
  • Atlases
  • National Geographic map printed and copied

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