KS1 & KS2 geography curriculum

1. The world's cold places
2. Locating the North and South Poles
3. The North Pole and the Arctic
4. The South Pole and the Antarctic
5. Arctic wildlife
6. Antarctic wildlife
7. Living in the Arctic
8. Living in the Antarctic

Seasons: how does the weather change through the year?

links to work done in and around the school ground on weather and develops the idea of temperature variations and extreme cold on a global scale.

Hot places: where are they and what are they like?

It then leads on to examine this same scale but by investigating hot places in 'Hot places: What is it like near the Equator?'. This unit also links to future understanding of land use and settlement, and builds on Earth Geometry by establishing familiarity with the Polar Circles here and with the Equator in 'Hot places: What is it like near the Equator?'.