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SKU T12CS40120
Key Stage 1Events Beyond Living MemoryArtCross-curricular TopicGeographyHistoryReligious EducationScienceYear 1Year 2
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Hop on board and prepare to blast off on an exciting adventure with this Travel and Transport topic for KS1. Your class will explore journeys of all kinds, including how people get around now and how they travelled in the past, all through a selection of fun, engaging and informative lessons and activities. From a walk around the school to the first trip to the moon, there is something for everyone in this creative Travel and Transport cross-curricular topic for Year 1 and Year 2. 

 
#TheCompleteTopic18lessons

With easy-to-follow lesson plans, a slideshow for every lesson, differentiated activity ideas and a range of colourful, engaging printable resources (including worksheets, picture cards, challenges and much more), this Travel and Transport planning pack contains everything you need to teach this topic, leaving you free to sit back and enjoy watching as your KS1 class get enthusiastic about travel and transport!

#AllARTLessonsinTopic

Download these Travel and Transport Art KS1 planning packs to get instant access to three ready-to-teach Art projects for your Year 1 or Year 2 class. Covering a variety of art skills and techniques, these three lessons provide fun travel and transport Art ideas that you can teach over one session, or spread over several.

Use paints and paper to create a sailing scene, make a model hot air balloon or challenge your class to portray their own life journey in a creative way – whichever of these travel and transport art ideas you choose, they're sure to create some artwork to be proud of!

Each of these three lessons comes fully planned and ready to teach, including a lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources to support your class as they create their travel and transport art.

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#AllGEOGRAPHYLessonsinTopic

These three Geography lessons are the perfect way to incorporate Geography into your Travel and Transport cross-curricular topic. Your KS1 children will have the chance to explore and develop a range of geographical skills, including carrying out and analysing a survey, navigating around a map, and using compass points to describe directions.

These three Travel and Transport Geography lessons comes fully prepared and ready to teach. There are three detailed lesson plans (each with three-way differentiation), three slideshows for each of the teaching inputs, and three sets of printable resources, including worksheets, games, maps and more, meaning you can just download, teach and enjoy!

 

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#AllHISTORYLessonsinTopic

This History of Transport KS1 planning pack contains five engaging History lessons that explore the history of transport from the earliest canoes to the latest space missions! Your class will explore how inventions such as trains and motorcars transformed how people got around, and what impact this had on the world.

Each of these lessons comes fully planned and ready to deliver to your class. Each has a detailed lesson plan with differentiated activity ideas, a slideshow for the teaching input, and a range of printable resources, including worksheets, challenges, picture cards, games and more! All you need to do is download, teach and enjoy learning about the history of transport with your class!

 

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#AllRELessonsinTopic

Explore the theme of travel and journeys with your KS1 class with this set of ready-to-teach Moses and the Exodus RE lessons. Across the three lessons, your Year 1 or Year 2 children will read the story of the Israelites who were enslaved in Egypt, how they escaped, and their long, forty-year journey across the desert to reach the Promised Land.

Each of these three Moses and the Exodus RE lessons comes completely ready to deliver. There are detailed lesson plans, a slideshow for each of the teaching inputs (which guide and question your class as they read the stories together), differentiated activity ideas and a range of engaging printable resources to support your class as they carry out their independent learning.

 

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#AllSCIENCELessonsinTopic

Download these lessons to help deliver Travel and Transport Science experiments and activities to your KS1 class! This series of four lessons are a great way to incorporate science into your cross-curricular Travel and Transport topic and they come fully prepared and ready to teach, making them ideal if you're looking to save time on your planning! There is a detailed lesson plan for each lesson, a slideshow for the teaching inputs, differentiated activity ideas, and a range of printable resources to support children in their independent learning.

These lessons link to the National Curriculum and will challenge your class to identify and group different materials, describe the properties of materials, and investigate objects to see whether they float or sink.

 

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#Lesson1ArtSailAway

Your class are challenged to create some boat art in this Art lesson! 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.

 

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Worksheet
  • Boat templates
  • Help sheet
#Lesson2ArtPapierMacheHotAirBalloon

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.

 

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Differentiated worksheets
  • Help sheet
  • Evaluation sheet
#Lesson3ArtLifeJourneyArt

This fun and flexible Life Journey Art lesson for KS1 children encourages your Year 1 or Year 2 class to think about how life can be a journey. They will think about key events that have happened in their lives and ponder what the rest of their life journey may have in store, before thinking about how they can express this artistically.

This lesson comes prepared and ready to teach; there's an easy-to-follow lesson plan with differentiated activity ideas, a slideshow for the teaching input (which shows an example of how they could express their life journey as artwork), and a range of printable resources, including templates, to use as the basis for their artwork.

However your class choose to express their art journey, you're sure to end up with some fabulous artwork that is perfect for a classroom display!

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Vehicle templates
  • Road pieces
#Lesson4GeographyHowdoyougettoschool

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.

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Differentiated worksheets
  • Pictogram pieces
  • Chart label cards
#Lesson5GeographyMapWork

This KS1 Map Work lesson shows your class a simple map of a fictional town and teaches them how to navigate around the town using compass directions. They will soon be directing each other successfully from the bank to the café and from school to the police station!

The included slideshow presentation guides your class through the process of navigating around a map, asking questions to check their understanding. They can then carry out some map work of their own as they used the printable resources to navigate around the map of the town using compass directions.

 

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Worksheet
  • Direction cards
  • Town map
#Lesson6GeographyCompassDirections

Make teaching compass directions easy with this Compass Directions KS1 Geography lesson for Year 1 and Year 2 children. The included slideshow presentation for the teaching input shows your class a map of the world and introduces the five oceans and seven continents. After a recap of the four compass points and how they can be used for directions, your class will find out how to hop from continent to continent using compass directions to help them. They will go through plenty of examples as a class while they get the hang of it.

There are then a series of differentiated worksheets and activities the children can use to practise what they have learnt. Alternatively, there is a fun board game provided so children can have a go at using compass directions to travel around a world map in a fun and challenging way!

 

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Differentiated worksheets
  • World map
  • Game board
  • Direction dice
  • Score cards
#Lesson7HistoryTravelNowandThen

This ready-to-teach Travel Then and Now History lesson for KS1 starts by looking some modern modes of transport and the types of journeys that each are suitable for. The slideshow presentation for the teaching input then goes on to explore what forms of transport were used before cars, trains and planes were invented, and shows a transport timeline so children can see when different forms of transport were first invented. They will also consider the impact these inventions have had on people's lives.

This lesson comes fully planned and ready to teach with a lesson plan, slides and printable resources. The activities are also differentiated so that every child in your class can access the learning.

 

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Differentiated worksheets
  • Picture cards
#Lesson8HistoryHistoryofTrains

Download this History of Trains KS1 lesson to teach your Year 1 or Year 2 class about the invention of trains and how the introduction of freight and passenger railways changed the UK.

The included slideshow presentation guides your class through the early history of trains, showing photos and illustrations of early trains, as well as information about the development of trains in the early nineteenth century.

During their independent learning activities, your class can then study some photos of Victorian trains to compare them to modern trains through a range of differentiated activities. Alternatively, they can use the word cards provided to construct sentences about early trains from what they have found out.

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Differentiated worksheets
  • Picture cards
  • Word cards
#Lesson9HistoryHistoryofCars

Download this History of Cars KS1 planning pack to teach your Year 1 or Year 2 class about the invention of motor cars and how they changed the way we travel. During the teaching input, your class will find out about the first horseless carriages and how very early cars were expensive and made by hand. They will then be taught about Henry Ford and the first mass-produced cars that changed the way we travel forever, and look at how cars have changed over the years.

This lesson is completely planned and ready to teach with an easy-to-follow lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, and a range of differentiated printable resources to support your class as they carry out their independent learning activities.

 

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Differentiated worksheets
  • Picture sheet
  • Picture cards
#Lesson10HistoryHistoryofFlight

At any one time there are thousands of aeroplanes in the sky but this History of Flight KS1 lesson takes your Year 1 or Year 2 class back to 1903 and the very first successful engine-powered aeroplane flight by the Wright brothers. After reading the story of how the Wright brothers invented the aeroplane and how they developed their initial design, your children will think about how people at the time might have felt about this invention and how planes today are similar to or different from these early models.

Completely ready to teach, this History of Flight KS1 planning pack contains a detailed lesson plan, an engaging slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas, and a range of printable resources to support children as they learn about the history of aeroplanes independently.

 

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Differentiated worksheets
#Lesson11HistoryMoonLanding

This Moon Landing lesson plan for KS1 children introduces your class to space travel and tells them the story of man's first successful mission to the moon. They will explore the Apollo 11 mission through photos and footage and think about the impact of this 'giant step for mankind'.

This ready-to-teach planning pack has a moon landing lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a set of printable resources to support your class during their independent learning activities. All you need to do is download and teach!

 

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Worksheet
  • Sentence cards
  • Domino cards
  • Information sheet
  • Challenge cards
#Lesson12REIsraelitesinEgypt

This is the first of a set of three Exodus lesson plans exploring the story of the Israelites' escape from slavery in Egypt, and why the story of this amazing journey is important to Christians, Jews and Muslims. This lesson introduces Moses, looks at why the Israelites wanted to escape from Pharaoh and explores how God sent ten plagues to the Egyptians.

Complete with a lesson plan, a set of slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a set of printable resources, this lesson comes ready to download and teach to your class, making your RE planning a doddle!

 

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Differentiated worksheets
  • Question cards
  • Sentence cards
#Lesson13REEscapingEgypt

This Moses and the Red Sea lesson for KS1 children starts by recapping the part of the story they already know, then goes on to tell your class about how the Israelites left Egypt and started on their long journey to the promised land. They will find out about Moses and the Red Sea and consider how the Israelites might have been feeling at different points of the story.

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.

 

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Differentiated worksheets
  • Help sheet
#Lesson14REIntheDesert

Now that the Israelites had successfully escaped from Egypt, they were free to find the Promised Land. This lesson tells your class the story of the 40-year wander through the desert and what God provided for the Israelites, including food, water and a set of rules to live by - the Ten Commandments. It also challenges your class to think about how the Israelites might have felt once their long journey was finally over and they reached the land God had promised them so long ago.

 

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Differentiated worksheets
  • Ten Commandment cards
  • Israelite’s journey booklet
  • Moses maze
#Lesson15ScienceMaterialsHunt

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

This Materials Hunt 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 for children to record their findings from their materials hunt.

 

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
#Lesson16ScienceTravelObjects

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. They can also describe what each material is like and sort objects according to their properties, from sunglasses and swimming suits to combs and coins!

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

 

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Differentiated worksheets
  • Word cards
  • Picture cards
#Lesson17ScienceVehicleMaterials

This Vehicle Materials lesson gives your KS1 class the chance to have a closer look at some different vehicles to explore the various parts, such as wheels, doors, windows and handles, and to think about what material each part is made from and why. They will then be able to describe and group a variety of vehicles based on the materials they contain.

This planning pack provides a lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources so that all you need to do is download, teach and enjoy!

 

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Differentiated worksheets
  • Picture cards
  • Question cards
#Lesson18ScienceFloatingandSinking

This Floating and Sinking KS1 Science lesson challenges your class to create a floating boat bath toy. They will start by looking at some different examples of boats and the materials they are made from, before thinking about how they can find out which materials would be suitable. They will carry out an experiment to see which materials float and which sink, before deciding which material would be best for the purpose at hand.

This Floating and Sinking KS1 planning pack is completely ready to teach with an easy-to-follow lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, and printable resources to support children as they carry out their floating and sinking experiments.

 

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Differentiated worksheets
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Curriculum Objectives covered

Art Objectives:

  • KS1 - to use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
  • KS1 - to use drawing to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination
  • KS1 - to use painting to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination
  • KS1 - to use sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination

Geography Objectives:

  • KS1 - name and locate the world's seven continents and five oceans.
  • KS1 - 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.
  • KS1 - use simple compass directions (North, South, East and West) and locational and directional language [for example, near and far; left and right], to describe the location of features and routes on a map
  • KS1 - use aerial photographs and plan perspectives to recognise landmarks and basic human and physical features; devise a simple map; and use and construct basic symbols in a key
  • KS1 - 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

History Objectives:

  • KS1 - changes within living memory. Where appropriate, these should be used to reveal aspects of change in national life
  • KS1 - 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]
  • KS1 - 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

Science Objectives:

Year 1/2 Working Scientifically Objectives

  • Year 1 - asking simple questions and recognising that they can be answered in different ways
  • observing closely, using simple equipment
  • performing simple tests
  • identifying and classifying
  • using their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions

Year 1 Everyday Materials Objectives

  • 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

Year 2 Uses of Everyday Materials Objectives

  • identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses

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Liz Soton
Used for science Float or sink?

Excellent PowerPoint for float or sink and work sheets!! Thank you

You're welcome, Liz - thank you for taking the time to leave us a review :-)

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Mandy Elsom

Interesting topic especially for reluctanct boys!

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J S W

Excellent plans and worksheets. Also a PowerPoint which was very interesting. Plan also includes work for lower, middle and higher ability.