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 24 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

• Science: Seasonal Changes
• Geography: Weather Patterns
• DT: Wacky Windmills
• RE: Easter Beginnings

KS1 Science Objectives

Year 1/2 Working Scientifically

• asking simple questions and recognising that they can be answered in different ways
• observing closely, using simple equipment
• performing simple tests
• identifying and classifying
• using their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions
• gathering and recording data to help in answering questions

Year 1 Seasonal Changes

• observe changes across the four seasons
• observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies

KS1 Geography Objectives

• identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the United Kingdom and the location of hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the Equator and the North and South Poles.
• 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.

KS1 DT Objectives

• design purposeful, functional, appealing products for themselves and other users based on design criteria
• generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking, drawing, templates, mock-ups and, where appropriate, information and communication technology.
• explore and evaluate a range of existing products
• build structures, exploring how they can be made stronger, stiffer and more stable