Using a picture book as a starting point for planning an integrated topic in the primary school.

1. Starting point: What if? A book about recycling
CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING & DIVERSITY
GEOGRAPHY
PLACE & SCALE
• Coastal location
• Decide on a real place where this event
could have happened – photographs & maps
o What is this place like?
o How do I feel about this place?
o How is this place linked to other
places?
Curriculum Links
ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTION
ART
(including ESD)
• Sculpture using recycled objects
• Waste, safe disposal, recycling
• Shipwrecks, salvage, safe disposal
• Finite resources
• Recycling in school/ energy saving schemes
• Looking at traditional societies that regard the
earth as sacred – take only what is sustainable –
GLOBAL FOOTPRINTS
CHANGING HUMAN and PHYSICAL
SCIENCE
PROCESSES
• Habitats – sea
• Coastal erosion
• Environment
(How the water wears away the cliffs and rocks
• Materials (properties) e.g. in the recycling
and reshapes them)
plant a magnet is used to take away the
• Sorting activity – pebbles from the beach – sharp
bottle tops
pebbles, round pebbles, glass pebbles etc
• Video/ movie clip – the power of the sea • Materials – new glass from old
• Energy
LOCATION & SPACE CITIZENSHIP/ PHSE
• Where could the bottle float to? (Use of • Message in a bottle/ in the post (the way we are
maps, globes, Google Earth). linked to other people and places around the
• Use Google Earth, Live Local, Google Maps, world)
Globe Tossing • Internet – real stories – message in a bottle
• Role Play activity – travelling to distant • Finite resources
• Recycling in school/ energy saving schemes
places
• Looking at traditional societies that regard the
• Bee Bots – where in the world – travel mat
earth as sacred – take only what is sustainable –
GLOBAL FOOTPRINTS
INTERDEPENDENCE & CONNECTEDNESS There are three books in the WONDERWISE
• Message in a bottle/ in the post (the way we series from FRANKLIN WATTS that would
provide a useful starting point for a KS1 & lower
are linked to other people and places around
KS2 plan focused on GEOGRAPHY & SCIENCE.
the world) All of the books in the series are by: Mick
• Internet – real stories – message in a bottle Manning & Brita Grandström.
• What’s Up? 0 7496 5691 3
• What’s Under the Bed? 0 7496 5685 9
• What If? 0 7496 5692 1
Resource sheet developed by Wendy North wnorthgeography.org.uk 25/07/2009