Our Changing World
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What You Get
This pack includes a complete set of ready-to-teach lessons that together form a coherent scheme of work, written and created by experienced primary teachers.
Each of the lessons within the pack 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 to support adaptive teaching
- An alternative activity for flexibility and choice
- An overview (medium-term plan) showing the scheme contents at a glance
- An assessment grid to track learning and progress
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Curriculum Coverage
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Activities are designed to spark curiosity, encourage discussion and make learning memorable.
Use this three-lesson ESR (Education of Social Responsibility) scheme of work to introduce your class to the topic of climate change. Begin by exploring the climates around the world and how they can be affected by climate change. Discover the effects that changing climates is having on the weather around the world such as flooding, melting ice caps and droughts.
This downloadable scheme of work has (almost) everything you need to teach your class about the basics of climate change and what they can do to help. Each of the three lessons include detailed lesson plans, engaging slideshow presentations and printable teaching resources.
You may also like our Wonderful Weather Topic Bundle! Perfect if you want a cross-curricular approach to your teaching.
Climates Around the World
Introduce your class to the idea of climate change and how pollution is causing the planet to become warmer. They will explore the climates from around the world and what kind of weather each area has normally.
This downloadable ESR lesson includes a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheets
- Picture cards
- Discussion questions
Climate Change Effects
After recapping how pollution is changing the climates around the planet, have your class investigate the effects of the warming planet and climate change. Explore how the amount of rain can cause floods or droughts in different areas, or how the warmer temperatures are causing ice caps to melt and sea levels to rise.
This downloadable ESR lesson comes with a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheets
- Picture cards
- Effect cards
Renewable Energy Sources
After investigating the effects of climate change, discuss how the use of renewable, clean energy sources can reduce the amount of pollution being released into the air. Conduct experiments with your class into wind and solar energy.
This downloadable ESR lesson comes with a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheets
- Teacher notes
- Pinwheel template
- Pinwheel instructions
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