Explorers teaching pack

Fire up your younger learners’ imaginations with our Explorers pack; full of teaching activities linked to geography, science, DT and famous explorers through history.

Encourage children to consider what makes people head out into the unknown – and to find out what they discovered whilst they were there!

Perfect for KS1 topic work, the pack could form the basis of a week’s project or you could dip in and out over the course of a term; the world is your oyster!

What's included?

• 29 teaching ideas and accompanying resources
• includes a range of cross-curricular activities for KS1
• links to the curriculum.

What's inside?

Geography (pages 1-32)

• Curriculum coverage
• Teaching ideas bank
• Resources
• Gruffalo: grid references
• Bear hunt: grid references
• Using a compass
• Barnaby bear in the woods
• Exploring the park with Barnaby bear
• Map symbol cards
• Exploring the world: cities, natural and man-made landmarks
• Exploring the world: oceans, continents and countries
• Exploring Europe: countries, cities and sites
• Super school trips
• Packing for an adventure
• Desert explorers

Science (pages 33-80)

• Curriculum coverage
• Teaching ideas bank
• Resources
• Where would I see…?
• A trip around the world – explorer notes and photographs
• Life cycle of a penguin
• Sea-animal matching
• Habitats and adaptation
• Exploring contrasting habits
• Animal adaptation
• Design the perfect animal
• Solar system
• Ordering the planets
• Earth, sun and moon research pack

Famous explorers (pages 81-100)

• Teaching ideas bank
• Resources
• Captain Scott’s South Pole expedition timeline
• Captain Scott – bad luck or bad planning?
• Space explorers – create your own fact cards
• Space exploration timeline
• This is your life
• Research a famous person using the internet