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Central Idea: 'Environment Impacts Settlements and Culture'
Central Idea: 'Environment Impacts Settlements and Culture'
Line of inquiry 1: An inquiry into how the environment has influenced how British society has changed over time.
To kickstart our Module 2 learning, we used the lens of geography to explore the UK and France on a map and label some of their key cities. The children then started to explore the physical features of Normandy, France and thought about why people might have settled there. The children then spent some time looking at both Normandy in France and Hastings in England to understand how British Society changed, specifically looking at the Battle of Hastings. Using their knowledge of this, the children then wrote a non-chronological report. Through a scientific lens, the children started to explore light, thinking about the positive and negative effects of the sun and investigating what objects give off light.
Line of inquiry 2: An inquiry into how geography, climate and natural resources influence where people choose to settle.
For our second line of inquiry, the children continued to use their scientific knowledge to investigate how light travels, together with reflective materials and shadows.
The children looked at the importance of reflective materials and what makes something reflective. They then looked at what makes a shadow appear and how shadows behave.
After this, the children carried on with their geography learning by comparing the physical features of Normandy to London. They then looked at the human features of Normandy and then compared this to the human features of London, thinking about why people would settle in each place.
To finish off this line of inquiry, the children used our focus text 'Ug' to write a diary entry as if they were Ug from the Stone Age, thinking about what life was like during that time.
Line of inquiry 3: An inquiry into how people use and adapt their environment.
For our final line of inquiry, the children finished off their geography learning by making simple conclusions on their comparisons of Normandy and London, thinking about which place they would rather settle in and why. Through the lens of art, the children explored texture and collaging, creating their own environmental piece with a settlement. The children used a range of textures such as scrunching, folding and overlapping to create their collages and thought carefully about what settlement would be in their environment.
For the final written piece, the children rewrote the story of 'Stone Age Boy' including key skills such as direct speech and used setting and character descriptions. For our action in this module, we explored the impact population growth can have on land use and how environments are adapted to make space for houses to be built. We thought about this in relation to local farms and decided to make a poster making people aware of how they can support Loddington Farm and protect the land.
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