This Topic Bundle includes 4 ready-to-teach schemes of work across different curriculum areas, giving you a seamless cross-curricular approach to your teaching.

Each of the 24 lessons within this pack has been written by experienced teachers and contains:

• An easy-to-follow lesson plan (including plenary and assessment questions)
• An engaging slideshow for the teaching input
• A main activity with three-way differentiation for adaptive teaching
• An alternative activity
• An overview (medium-term plan) so you can see the scheme contents at a glance
• An assessment grid to track learning

• History: The History of Transport
• Geography: Around the World
• DT: Vehicles
• Topic Enrichment Pack: Travel and Transport

KS1 History Objectives

• changes within living memory. Where appropriate, these should be used to reveal aspects of change in national life
• events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally [for example, the Great Fire of London, the first aeroplane flight or events commemorated through festivals or anniversaries]
• the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements. Some should be used to compare aspects of life in different periods

KS1 Geography Objectives

• name and locate the world's seven continents and five oceans.
• use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key physical features, including: beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil, valley, vegetation, season and weather.
• use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key human features, including: city, town, village, factory, farm, house, office, port, harbour and shop
• 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

KS1 DT Objectives

• design purposeful, functional, appealing products for themselves and other users based on design criteria
• generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking, drawing, templates, mock-ups and, where appropriate, information and communication technology.
• select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing]
• select from and use a wide range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their characteristics
• explore and evaluate a range of existing products
• evaluate their ideas and products against design criteria
• explore and use mechanisms [for example, levers, sliders, wheels and axles], in their products

KS1 Art Objectives

• to use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
• to use drawing to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination
• to use painting to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination
• to use sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination

KS1 Geography Objectives

• use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of their school and its grounds and the key human and physical features of its surrounding environment

KS1 Science Objectives

Year 1/2 Working Scientifically

• asking simple questions and recognising that they can be answered in different ways
• observing closely, using simple equipment
• identifying and classifying
• using their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions

Year 1 Everyday Materials

• distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made
• identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock
• describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials
• compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple physical properties