Geography KS2
11 Key Free Teaching Resources
Walk4Life
Free resources for keystage 2 about walking, with curriculum links to geography, maths, ICT and citizenship. Colourful and inspiring activities!
Countryside Investigators
Engaging new online resource about the countryside - free, curriculum-linked and ready-to-use
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BP Educational Service
Providing innovative curriculum-linked free teaching resources for primary and secondary at Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4
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Practical Action
Inspiring resources on sustainability, climate change, renewable energy and global learning
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Ordnance Survey
Developing Mapping Skills In Key Stage 2 With Ordnance Survey Teaching Resources
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Schools Tube
Developed by teachers for teachers. Educational video and audio resources.
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Google Earth
Fly Anywhere In The World With Google Earth As Part Of Teaching Geography
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Discovery Channel
Explore Volcanoes In Key Stage 2 With a Virtual Volcano
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Children investigate a variety of places and environments within the United Kingdom and overseas. They find out how people affect their environment. Children ask and answer geographical questions developing their skills through the use of maps, globes, atlases and ICT.
In developing their geographical skills, KS 2 children use labelled sketches and instruments to record and collect information during fieldwork. Secondary sources of information are used to find out about people, places and environments.
During Key Stage 2, children continue to identify the location of places and environments and describe where they are. They make comparisons between places in the same country and contrast localities in different countries. Children begin to explain why places are like they are by considering weather conditions, the resources available there and the role historical events may have played.
Physical processes, such as erosion, and human processes, such as industry, are identified and their impact on places and environments considered. Children will think about how people can improve the environment or damage it. Water and its effect on people and landscapes is an important theme in the Key Stage 2 programme of study as is how settlements change and differ.
The resources in this section can be used to support current Geography schemes of work at Primary KS2.
