Brilliant Britain Topic Bundle

This Topic Bundle includes 3 ready-to-teach schemes of work across different curriculum areas, giving you a seamless cross-curricular approach to your teaching.

Each of the 19 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

• Geography: The United Kingdom
• Science: Great British Scientists
• DT: Great British Dishes

KS2 Geography Objectives

• name and locate counties and cities of the United Kingdom, geographical regions and their identifying human and physical characteristics, key topographical features (including hills, mountains, coasts and rivers), and land-use patterns; and understand how some of these aspects have changed over time
• describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle
• use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied

KS2 Science Objectives

Year 5/6 Working Scientifically

• planning different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary
• recording data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs
• reporting and presenting findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations
• identifying scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments

Year 5 Forces

• explain that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of the force of gravity acting between the Earth and the falling object
• recognise that some mechanisms, including levers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect

Year 6 Evolution and inheritance

• recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago
• identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution

KS2 DT Objectives

• understand and apply the principles of a healthy and varied diet
• prepare and cook a variety of predominantly savoury dishes using a range of cooking techniques
• understand seasonality, and know where and how a variety of ingredients are grown, reared, caught and processed