Explorers teaching pack

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Explorers: KS1 and KS2 cover
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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
Explorers: KS1 and KS2 pack
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This is an amazing pack. Profound gratitude

Olanike Onimisi

22/05/2020

5

28/04/2020

5

13/01/2020

5

05/01/2019

This is an amazing pack. Profound gratitude

Olanike Onimisi

22/05/2020

5

28/04/2020

5

13/01/2020

5

05/01/2019

Thank you for your positive review. We agree that this is a fantastic pack!

Lynne Kent

28/02/2018

I have always loved learning about explorers. This is just what I need for my ESL group for Topic Based Work. Many thanks.

Barbara Payne

28/02/2018

5

5

5

5