Curriculum Links To Edgar's Field Geology Packs

Key Stage 2

Geography

UNIT 1
Around our school the local area

• Mapping.
• Describing immediate surroundings, features of local environment, buildings.
• Express views on features.
• Understand changes to local environment.
• How changes in environments affect jobs e.g. Chester quarrymen, fishermen, tourism.
• Recognise that different places support different kinds of work.
• How places change for better or for worse over time.
• Realise that change is continuous in most places.
• Develop and understanding of chronology.

 

UNIT 6
Investigating the local area locality in relation to other places

• Marking, using and interpreting maps.
• Planning route from school to site.
• Physical and human features of settlements.
• Develop awareness and understanding of land use.
• Collect evidence.
• Use fieldwork techniques.
• Use graphs and ICT.

 

UNIT 8
Improving the Environment

• Encourage active involvement in improvement of the local environment.
• Active classroom discussion how individual views differ.
• Identify local area that is neglected.
• Visit and gather evidence.
• Develop fieldwork skills.
• Discuss how people affect the environment.
• How and why people seek to manage and sustain their environment.
• Be aware of particular groups who have responsibility for improving environments.
• Appreciate the need for improvement in some places.
• Discuss how area may be improved.

 

UNIT 9
Village settlers Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings

• The characteristics of settlement.
• Use of maps to identify settlements and the reasons for original siting.
• Be aware of factors leading to development of a village.

 

UNIT 21
Improving the local area

 

• Fieldwork analyse evidence, draw conclusions, communicate findings.
• Identify physical and human features.
• What will the site be like in future?

 

UNIT 25
Geography and numbers

• Ask geographical questions.
• Collect and record evidence.
• Analyse and draw conclusions.
• Use geographical vocabulary.
• Use appropriate fieldwork techniques.
• Use maps and ICT.
• Investigate a locality in the UK.
• Use secondary sources of information.

Science

UNIT 1C
Handling, identifying and describing different materials

• Properties of materials.
• Choosing materials for a purpose.

 

UNIT 2E
Forces and movement

• How pushes and pulls affect the movement and shape of objects.

 

UNIT 3C
Characteristics of material

• Planning investigations.
• Properties of materials hardness, strength, flexibility, rough, smooth, etc.

 

UNIT 3D
Rocks and Soils

• Weathering, erosion, permeability.
• Grouping rocks texture, size, shape.
• Rock characteristics.
• Appropriate use of rocks.
• Soil types.
• Hazards and risks.

 

UNIT 5 6H
Environmental enquiry

• Planning, collecting, recording and interpreting data.
• Evaluating and presenting.

History

UNIT 6A
Romans

 

Citizenship

• Taking part and developing skills of communication and participation.
• Class discussion.
• Interaction.
• Negotiation.
• Respect for property in the community.
• Formulating ideas in groups.
• Devising strategies to improve local environments.