Passport to the World

Be familiar with a range of places in the UK and overseas; appreciate similarities and differences between places and understand the reasons for them;
use a range of resources to find out about places

Teaching Resources

Create an Electronic Passport
The unit can be enriched by children having a 'passport' in which they record all the places they have 'visited' in the course of their work.

How well do you know the world you live in?
Year 6 Geography Quiz (WM School)

Create a branching database which identifies six different places ICT Link
On each day for six days, give the children two facts about a city or other location. The location is different every day. Ask them to guess which location the facts are about and to post their answers in a ‘guess the location’ box in the classroom. At the end of the six days, reveal the identity of the places.

Demonstrate how to create a branching database. For example, make a poster showing the branching structure, so that children can see how the computer version is constructed. Explain to the children that they will create a branching database to identify the six places they have just guessed.

Remind children of the need to construct yes/no questions, and discuss the sort of questions that might be asked, e.g. Is it in Europe ? Is it near the equator?

The children work in pairs to create a branching database that identifies the six places. Ask each group to test the others’ databases.

Photographic images of countries – select a continent, then a country.

The images are not free and are copyrighted, however they are useful for showing children what places around the world look like.

Survey of holiday destinations ICT Link Unit
Ask the children to interview a number of people to find out about their favourite holiday location and the reasons for their choice. Ask the children to find out where the places are and to enter their survey findings on a database. Ask them to produce graphs of their results and to analyse their findings. E.g. Which factor has the most impact on a choice of holiday?

Adopt a city
Ask the children to adopt a city and research it using the Internet They could record the weather in their city for a week, record the information in a spreadsheet and produce graphs to represent findings. They could use a WP or DTP package to produce a report on their city, or create a multimedia presentation and make their presentation to the class.

World Clock
The time now in different countries around the world
www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

Passport to the World Videos, photographs, an amazing fly over and your very own login make this an exciting and rare free resource for school. Children explore different countries and get their own passports stamped after answering questions on the country they visited. N.B. Pop up blockers must be off to use the site. Not suitable for dial up. Don't panic if you seem to be on the main page (pictured left) for a while, it does take a little while for the starting page pop up to appear.

Passport to the World - Channel 4 This 4learning site offers information for the children, worksheets for the teacher to download, an image bank for each of the units, weblinks connected to the unit visited and onscreen activities to be done at home, by the children, to support the learning in school.

Maps and Countries info atlapedia.com	National Geographic's map machine.

World Continents & Oceans Games (sheppardsoftware.com)	World Geography Quizzes (sheppardsoftware.com)

Know your Flags Game (mapzone)	Global Eye - Mexico

Mapping our World The free interactive website helps pupils explore the difference between a map and a globe, and how different map projections affect our perceptions of the world. The resource features nine engaging activities for whole class participation. There are three activities under each lesson plan. Pupils can flatten a globe into a map, transform a map into a globe, merge different projections, and explore why there are different ways of seeing the world.