Going to the seaside
Recall information about their local area and use this to help them study a contrasting area, eg the seaside; recognise how each environment is different and changing; use a variety of resources to find out information.
Teaching Resources
Combine with History Unit - What were seaside holidays like in the past?
The unit Beside the seaside (QCA website) links history (unit 3) and geography (unit 4).
 | Sammy the Seagull big book: Also visit our big book on Coasts |
Create an interactive Big Book on the seaside.
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Holiday Survey ICT Link Unit 1E
Carry out a survey of the places children have been on holiday, graph the results and compare survey with a survey of grandparents' holiday destination. Is there a difference in distance travelled?
Enter the information into a database. Search the database to answer questions and draw conclusions from evidence.
Postcards ICT Link Unit 2A
Children insert a picture from clip art and write a sentence about the picture using a word bank to help them
Seaside visit ICT Link Unit 2A
Children create a piece of writing about a seaside visit using a word processing package such as 2publish or Clicker to provide word banks to aid writing
Draw a picture ICT Link Unit 2A
Children draw a picture/map of the beach and coast using a Paint programme
 | Seaside Postcard A Flash based resource designed to support children's development of characterisation through the use of dialogue. A seaside postcard is the setting for a writing framework that makes use of speech bubbles and thought clouds to give a voice to the characters. Teacher Resource Exchange |
Travel Brochure ICT Link Unit 2B
Children create pictures for a travel brochure.
Sorting
Children to group places into types of environments, e.g. town, countryside, seaside by sorting photographs in Textease (or whiteboard software).
| How is the seaside different from our locality? Resources for the Interactive Whiteboard www.lgfl.net |  |
Going to the seaside teaching resources
Teacher Resource Exchange
Seaside Photographs
A set of pictures, free for use in all educational contexts, showing general seaside views from Broadstairs and Margate, Kent.
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Seaside recreation pictures
A set of pictures, free for use in all educational contexts, showing various seaside recreations with implicit issues.
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