This Topic Bundle includes 17 ready-to-teach schemes of work across different curriculum areas, giving you a seamless cross-curricular approach to your teaching.

Each of the 17 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: Mountains
• Science: Mountain Habitats
• Topic Enrichment Pack: Mountains

KS2 Geography Objectives

• locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities
• 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 Living things and their habitats

describe the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird

Year 6 Living things and their habitats

describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animalsgive reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics

Year 6 Evolution and inheritance

identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution

Art Objectives

• to improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including painting with a range of materials
• about great artists in history

Computing Objectives

• select, use and combine a variety of software (including internet services) on a range of digital devices to design and create a range of programs, systems and content that accomplish given goals, including collecting, analysing, evaluating and presenting data and information