Use this learning path with younger students when teaching pupils about houses. A good resource to use on World Homelessness Day.
7 resources in this Learning Path
Three task cards for designing a shelter in a jungle, mountain and desert. Task cards provide the materials pupils can use, the description of the location they will build their house and what they should consider.
View full descriptionStrand: Human Environments
Strand unit: People living and working in the local area
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Use the task cards to get pupils critically thinking about the area in which they need to build their house and aspects they need to consider when designing their house. Allow time for pupils to research the area - mountain/ desert/ jungle.
Shelter Classroom Kit provide a nice interactive matching exercises whereby pupils need to match the house type to the name. The animation may help students describe their home or compare towns to cities.
View full descriptionStrand: Materials
Strand unit: Properties and characteristics of materials
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Use animation to identify house types by matching the houses to their names.
Images of traffic lights, garden chairs, signs, poles, lamps, shops, bins, post boxes and buildings. Using the images, pupils will need to name the street object and describe the features material.
View full descriptionStrand: Materials
Strand unit: Properties and characteristics of materials
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Project the images onto the whiteboard and get the pupils to name the objects and describe the material used in the object.
Pictures of various objects to do with building a house. Pupils need to look at the picture, name the material and describe its appearance.
View full descriptionStrand: Materials
Strand unit: Properties and characteristics of materials
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Project the animation onto the whiteboard and allow pupils to discuss the answers. Ask for silence and collect pupils ideas and descriptions.
Pupils need to think about the pictures and answer the questions. This activity can be used to help pupils describe their house.
View full descriptionStrand: Materials
Strand unit: Properties and characteristics of materials
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Use the animation to encourage pupils to discuss a topic over a long period of time - so that pupils can describe their house in a few sentences.
Students must categorising the house types by solving the questions and placing houses into the correct group. A good animation to help students describe their own houses.
View full descriptionStrand: Materials
Strand unit: Properties and characteristics of materials
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Allow pupils to tell you where to put the houses and which houses to choose for each question. After the activity, ask pupils to describe their own house.
A thoughtful activity to fine-tune pupils listening skills on instructions. How to carry out the activity is included in the link.
View full descriptionStrand: Useful Websites
Suggestions for use: Integrated with geography (houses and homes)
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