Take your class travelling with this cross-curricular pack designed to spark curiosity and creativity across your Year 1/2 classroom. This Travel and Transport KS1 Topic Enrichment Pack offers six engaging lessons covering Science, Art and Geography, all carefully crafted to complement your teaching while developing key skills across the curriculum.

Your class will:

• Identify, group and describe the properties of different materials related to travel and transport
• Learn how to use paints and paper to create a sailing scene and make a model hot air balloon
• Conduct, and analyse the results of, a survey on how children travel to school

Whether you’re looking to enrich your existing Travel and Transport topic or deliver a mini cross-curricular project, this pack provides everything you need—lesson plans, slides, activity sheets and resources—ready to download and teach.

You may also like our Travel and Transport Topic Bundle – perfect if you're looking for a cross-curricular approach to your teaching! 

Materials Hunt

This Materials Hunt Science lesson starts by looking at a variety of different materials, including wood, metal, plastic and glass. Your children will find out where these materials come from, and some of the ways in which they are used.

Your class then go on a materials hunt of their own as they travel around the school finding examples of each of these different materials!

This lesson is fully planned and ready to teach. There's an easy-to-follow lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

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Travel Objects

Challenge your KS1 class to think about which travel objects they would need to take with them on a holiday, then identify what material each one is made from.

Children are challenged to describe what each material is like, and sort objects according to their properties, from sunglasses and swimming suits to combs and coins!

This lesson pack contains everything you need, including a plan with three-way differentiation, a PDF slideshow for the teaching input, and printable resources to support your children as they work through the activities.

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Vehicle Materials

This Vehicle Materials lesson gives your KS1 class the chance to take a closer look at some different vehicles, identify the different parts, and think about what material each part is made from.

They will then describe and group a variety of vehicles based on the materials they contain, and are challenged to reflect on why each material was chosen to make each part.

This lesson comes fully prepared and ready to teach with a detailed lesson plan, slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas, and a range of printable resources.

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Sail Away

Your class are challenged to create some boat art! This lesson starts by showing your class some examples of boats in paintings by other artists, before giving them the chance to create their own marine masterpieces using a variety of media, including paint, collage and origami.

This lesson is completely ready to teach and deliver. It includes a lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas, and printable resources to support children as they create their boat artwork.

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Papier Mache Hot Air Balloon

This Papier Mache Hot Air Balloon lesson plan will challenge your KS1 class to make their own colourful hot air balloons! The included slideshow for the teaching input starts by explaining what a hot air balloon is and showing some photos of hot air balloons in flight. It then goes on to show some helpful step-by-step photos for how to create a papier mache hot air balloon using simple materials and techniques.

Children can then follow this method for themselves to design, create and evaluate their own papier mache hot air balloons. There are several printable resources to support children as they do this.

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How do you get to school?

How do you get to school? How do other people travel to school? In this Geography lesson, your KS1 class will investigate how people travel to school in the mornings, using tally charts to collect information and pictograms to present what they have found out.

The included slideshow for the teaching input models how to use tally charts to collect data, and then how to translate this data into a pictogram. Children can then practise this for themselves as they gather information using the differentiated activities provided.

By the end of the lesson, your class will be able to identify the most and least popular ways of getting to school from the graphs and charts they have created.

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