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• 6.1: Early Years
• 6.2: Literacy
• 6.3: Mathematics
• 6.4: Science
• 6.5: History
• 6.6: Geography
  • KS1 (age 5-7)
  • 6.6.2: Find Out About The Seaside (age 5-7)
  • KS2 (age 7-11)
  • 6.6.4: Climate Change (age 7-11)
  • 6.6.5: Mountains and Coasts (age 7-11)
  • 6.6.6: Living in Contrasting Environments (age 7-11)
  • 6.6.7: Water: A Precious Resource (age 7-11)
• 6.7: Religious Education
• 6.8: PSHE
• 6.9: Modern Foreign Language

Geography

Find Out About The Seaside (age 5-7)

Barnaby Bear and Magic Grandad help us learn about all aspects of the seaside in this new CD-ROM for your interactive whiteboard, combining fantastic BBC video and audio clips with images and interactive games to cover an extensive range of curriculum objectives.

 

 

Key features:

• The range of resources allows you to cover Geography, History, Literacy, Science and PSHE objectives, either in a fully integrated topic, or separately at different points over Key Stage 1
• Planning is made quick and simple with an accompanying printed teacher’s book, which is also available electronically on the CD-ROM

Objectives covered:

• Geography SoW Unit 4: Going to the Seaside
  
• History SoW Unit 3: What were seaside holidays like in the past?
  
• Key parts of Science units 1d, e, f - Light and Sounds, Pushes and Pulls, Sound and Hearing
  
• Literacy - poems, stories and numerous literacy activities are embedded throughout the resource, each clearly linked to objectives from the PNS.
  
• Staying safe - a whole unit on Seaside health and safety is included

Contents:

Unit 1: Where the land meets the sea

• Seaside search
• Physical features
• Colourful coastlines
• Beautiful beaches
• Tide times
• Literacy focus: Sea Seasons by Moira Andrew

Unit 2: On the shore

• Rock pools
• What am I?
• Literacy focus: Exploring the Rock Pool by John Cotton
• Seabirds
• When the tide goes out
• Barnaby’s seaside graph

Unit 3: On the land

• A bird’s-eye view
• At the port of Poole with Barnaby Bear
• At the caravan park with Barnaby Bear
• Living and working by the sea
• Brightsea Quay: Then and now
• Literacy focus: The Crane at the Docks by Stanley Cook

Unit 4: The sea

• Sea scenes
• Ship ahoy!
• Why do boats float?
• Fishing fun
• Catching cod
• Literacy focus: Why the Sea is Salty - a Philippine legend

Unit 5: Going on holiday

• Barnaby Bear goes to Roscoff in France
• Barnaby Bear explores Roscoff
• Finding your way: Visit Brightsea!
• Going on holiday with Magic Grandad
• Packing your suitcase
• Going on holiday: What has changed?

Unit 6: Having fun

• Why do we like to be beside the seaside?
• On the beach with Barnaby Bear
• On the beach with Magic Grandad
• On the pier and on the prom with Magic Grandad
• In the past: Bridlington
• Literacy focus: What is everyone doing at the seaside?

Unit 7: Staying safe

• Staying safe in the sea
• Flying flags
• The rescue
• Who said what?
• Safe from the sun
  
• Literacy focus: A Victorian heroine

 

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