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 25 lessons within this pack has been written by experienced teachers and contains:

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

• Science: The Secret World of Plants
• Geography: Around the World
• History: Intrepid Explorers
• Art: Earth Art

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
• to develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space

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
• significant historical events, people and places in their own locality

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 Science Objectives

Year 1/2 Working Scientifically

• observing closely, using simple equipment
• identifying and classifying
• using their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions
• gathering and recording data to help in answering questions

Year 2 Living Things and their Habitats

• explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive

Year 2 Plants

• observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants
• find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy