Resource sheet developed by Wendy North wnorthgeography.org.uk 25/07/2009

ART

• Sculpture using recycled objects

There are three books in the WONDERWISE series from FRANKLIN WATTS that would provide a useful starting point for a KS1 & lower KS2 plan focused on GEOGRAPHY & SCIENCE. All of the books in the series are by: Mick Manning & Brita Grandström. • What’s Up? 0 7496 5691 3 • What’s Under the Bed? 0 7496 5685 9 • What If? 0 7496 5692 1

SCIENCE

• Habitats – sea

• Environment

• Materials (properties) e.g. in the recycling

plant a magnet is used to take away the

bottle tops

• Materials – new glass from old

• Energy

Starting point: What if? A book about recycling

CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING & DIVERSITY

CHANGING HUMAN and PHYSICAL

PROCESSES

• Coastal erosion

(How the water wears away the cliffs and rocks

and reshapes them) • Sorting activity – pebbles from the beach – sharp

pebbles, round pebbles, glass pebbles etc

• Video/ movie clip – the power of the sea

INTERDEPENDENCE & CONNECTEDNESS

• Message in a bottle/ in the post (the way we

are linked to other people and places around

the world)

• Internet – real stories – message in a bottle

ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTION

(including ESD)

• Waste, safe disposal, recycling

• Shipwrecks, salvage, safe disposal

• Finite resources • Recycling in school/ energy saving schemes

• Looking at traditional societies that regard the

earth as sacred – take only what is sustainable –

GLOBAL FOOTPRINTS

LOCATION & SPACE

• Where could the bottle float to? (Use of

maps, globes, Google Earth).

• Use Google Earth, Live Local, Google Maps,

Globe Tossing

• Role Play activity – travelling to distant

places

• Bee Bots – where in the world – travel mat

PLACE & SCALE

• Coastal location

• Decide on a real place where this event

could have happened – photographs & maps

o What is this place like?

o How do I feel about this place?

o How is this place linked to other

places?

GEOGRAPHY

Curriculum Links

CITIZENSHIP/ PHSE • Message in a bottle/ in the post (the way we are

linked to other people and places around the

world)

• Internet – real stories – message in a bottle

• Finite resources

• Recycling in school/ energy saving schemes

• Looking at traditional societies that regard the

earth as sacred – take only what is sustainable –

GLOBAL FOOTPRINTS