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Strategic Partnership Project (Key action no 2)
“ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP AND ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS THROUGH FORMAL
AND NON-FORMAL EDUCATION” (ACEAFNE)
CURRICULUM INTEGRATED ACTIVITY
LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL
DATE
TEACHER
CLASS
SUBJECT
CURRICULAR COVERAGE
TOPIC OF THE LESSON
TIME
Lanchester EP Primary School (England)
Spring Term 1 2016
David Mordue
Year 4
Geography (Life on Land: 15 ~ Rainforests)
Geography
Identifying areas of the world covered by rainforests
1 hour (formal lesson)
OBJECTIVES
 Children to use maps and atlases to locate areas of rainforest around the world.
TEACHING STRATEGIES
 Presentation
 Partner talk
 Independent work
TEACHING METHOD
Whole class
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION
 Chn shown map of the world.
 Chn to name continents, oceans, countries etc that they recognize and feedback to the class.
 What is a rainforest? Run through PPT presentation which describes what a rainforest is.
 Where might rainforests be located on our world map? Chn to discuss in pairs then
feedback ideas.
 Give chn list of countries which have rainforests.
 Task: Chn to use their atlas to locate countries on list and shade these in green on their
blank world map. Chn to then create a key for their map.
ACTIVITY ASSESSMENT
 Good activity to start our „Rainforests‟ topic.
STUDENTS‟ IMPACT *
 Chn now have more knowledge of where rainforests are located around the world.
CONCLUSIONS AS TO THE STUDENTS‟ BEHAVIOUR, INTEREST, ACTIVITY:
 Chn were engaged and interested in the topic.
 Chn completed their independent work well although will need to keep consolidating use
of atlases.
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