Year 4
Curriculum Map
Outcome
- To learn about countries and continents.
- Which continents are connected together?
- Which are the largest/smallest continents?
Outcome
- To learn about Human and Physical features of regions and countries.
- What is the same? What is different?
- Can you explain why?
Outcome
- To learn about physical geography including topographical features of Sri Lanka.
- Where is Sri Lanka located?
- What is the capital city of Sri Lanka?
- What is the currency of the country?
- What is the national dress?
- What is the official language?
Outcome
- To compare and contrast School-life (UK and Sri Lanka.
- What time did you get up this morning? What time did you go to sleep?
- Is it the same time everyday? Or does it change over the weekends?
Outcome
- Compare types of settlements in modern Britain, villages, towns and cities.
- Draw maps with complex keys.
Outcome
- Understand products we use are imported as well as locally produced. Investigate what they are.
- Bring in objects that come from Turkey / Portugal /Spain etc
- Go to Tesco for investigating this as field trip.
Outcome
- Investigate and enquire how types of industry in the area have changed over time.
- Look at where our energy and natural resources come from.
Outcome
- Measure straight line distances using the appropriate scale
- Explore features on OS maps using 6figure grid reference
Outcome
- Research relevant (recent) earthquakes around the world and the impact they had on the community and its surrounding areas.
- Locate on maps using 6 figure grid references
Outcome
- Look at what causes earthquakes and how the earth moves.
Outcome
- Use secondary sources such as maps, books and computers to obtain information about earthquakes.
Outcome
- Create a fact file on Earthquakes from the research.
Outcome
- To locate continents and oceans
- Find land/sea on globe Name Europe /North America/South America on a map and their oceans ask simple geographical questions; Where is it? What’s it like?
- Use N books, stories, maps, pictures/photos and internet as sources of information.
Outcome
- To compare and contrast to different localities
- Compare and contrast the environment and landscape of 2 cities. London and a chosen European destination that is different to London that has mountains.
- List key physical and human characteristics.
Outcome
- To investigate how mountains are formed
- Find out about how mountains are formed investigate, through research, other places in the UK, Europe and the wider world that have similar physical environments i.e. mountains.
Outcome
- To investgate the pros and cons of living in a mountainous area
- Using different sources, the children focus on their individual choice of mountain range and consider what the advantages and disadvantages of living on a mountain might be.
Outcome
- To understand how traffic affects the locality
- Investigate a line of enquiry: eg how do the streets in our local area change over the course of a day?
- They investigate the traffic in the local streets.
- Investigate modes of traffic that they will come across.
Outcome
- Observe, measure and record traffic.
- Children can go to different parts of Goodmayes and measure and record the amount of traffic that is in different parts of different streets.
- Choose different times of the day and measure quantity of traffic. Ask questions when is it very busy and quiet. Give reasons?
Outcome
- To create a leaflet
- Create a newsletter to parents or a page on the school website to inform parents of the dangers. Pollution, congestion etc
Outcome
- To create a newsletter
- Create a newsletter to parents or a page on the school website to inform parents of the dangers. Pollution, congestion etc
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