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Improving the environment
Begin to account for their own views about the environment, recognising that other people may have reasons for thinking differently; identify how people affect the environment and recognise ways in which people try to manage it for the better; ask and respond to geographical questions while undertaking tasks set by the teacher, offering their own ideas appropriate to the situation; use a range of simple equipment, maps and resources to carry out tasks supported by the teacher.
Teaching Activities
 Measuring the level of Sound ICT and Science Link
Use a sound sensor to measure the level of sound at different times of the day. Enter the data into a spreadsheet and produce graphs to present findings.
How to guide - What is the noisiest place in the school? ( logit Explorer)
Monitoring environmental conditions around the school ICT and Science Link
Use a sensor to measure temperature, light and/or the level of sound around the school. Enter the data into a spreadsheet and produce graphs to present findings.
How to guide - Monitoring environmental conditions around school ( logit Explorer)
 Promethean Resource - (National Whiteboard Network)
 Powerpoint Resource - (National Whiteboard Network)
Powerpoint Resource - (Greenwich ICT)
 Design and Leisure
Lesson plan and resources from UK Department for Transport
 Headcount Survey ICT Link Units 4D and 5D
Count children in different areas at different times in the day. Use a spreadsheet to produce graphs to present their findings.
Litter Survey ICT Link Units 4D and 5D
Divide the children into small groups to investigate litter in different areas of the school grounds. Use a spreadsheet to produce graphs to present their findings.
Where is the best place to put new school benches?
Investigate the microclimate of your school site in order to site new benches and tables.
Aldington County Primary School enquiry project
 Write a report to the local council ICT Link Units 4A
Identify an area in the locality that has not been cared for, in groups use WP software to write a report to send to the local council describing how the environment is being affected and asking if there are any plans to improve the area. A writing frame such as a Clicker Grid or a Textease wordbank could be used to help structure the report and help with vocabulary
Design a Poster to persuade people to improve local environment.
Example of a poster about vandalism
Making Decisions
Lesson plan and resources from UK Department for Transport
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Map Work
Use Multimap find the school using the postcode. Look at aerial photographs and identify urban and rural areas with the help of the map overlay tool.
www.multimap.com |
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Eco Explorer
children can learn all about important environmental issues, such as respecting nature, recycling, and reducing power consumption in a fun and colourful format that will hold their attention while the lessons are taught.
www.naturegrid.org.uk/eco-exp/ |
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Eco Schools
Eco Schools is an award scheme that encourages everyone in the school community to become involved in making the school environment better. Their website is packed full of great ideas and activities that fit into the national curriculum.
www.eco-schools.org.uk |
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Learning Through Landscape
Learning Through Landscape helps schools across the UK to bring lasting improvements to the environmental quality and educational use of their grounds. Learning through landscape offers schools advice and support from offices in London and Yorkshire and has over a decade of experience in school grounds development.
www.ltl.org.uk/ |
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Improving the Local Environment
This 4learning site offers information for the children, worksheets for the teacher to download, an image bank for each of the units, weblinks connected to the unit visited and onscreen activities to be done at home, by the children, to support the learning in school.
www.channel4.com |
Waste
 Environment Intelligence Unit
www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/
Planet earth is in danger and needs some help in overcoming some serious environmental problems. Through four entertaining interactive missions students discover what they can do to help. Beyond "Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle," students are asked to discover the fourth "R".
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