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:

• 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 for adaptive teaching
• An alternative activity
• An overview (medium-term plan) so you can see the scheme contents at a glance
• An assessment grid to track learning

• Geography: The USA
• DT: Food of the USA
• Science: The Unforgettable Science of America
• Art: Warhol and the Pop Art Movement

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
• understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a region of the United Kingdom, a region in a European country, and a region within North or South America
• describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle
• describe and understand key aspects of human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water
• use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied
• use the eight points of a compass, four and six-figure grid references, symbols and key (including the use of Ordnance Survey maps) to build their knowledge of the United Kingdom and the wider world

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

KS2 Science Objectives

Year 3/4 Working Scientifically

• asking relevant questions and using different types of scientific enquiries to answer them
• setting up simple practical enquiries, comparative and fair tests
• reporting on findings from enquiries, including oral and written explanations, displays or presentations of results and conclusions

Year 3 Rocks, Fossils and Soils

• compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties
• describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock

Year 4 Sound

• identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating
• recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases

Year 4 Electricity

• construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers
• identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery
• recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

KS2 Art Objectives

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