Unit 4. Going to the seaside

Key Questions

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Suggested resources

Who has visited other places? Where are they? How far away are they? How did they get there?

Use Ordnance survey software or website www.ordsvy.gov.uk 
For aerial photos
For lesson ideas visit Seaside resources
Photos of local coasts/transport etc try
www.freefoto.com

Aerial pictures

Pictures of transport

What is the seaside like? Why do we like to go there?

Tynemouth 
More on Tynemouth http://www.villagevoices.co.uk/index.htm
For more Seaside Resorts visit Snaith Primary
http://home.freeuk.com/elloughton13/seaconte.htm
A lovely 'big book' about Sammy Seagull
 www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/sammy/index.html

Travel brochures
Holiday photographs
School Trip photographs

How is the seaside different from our locality?

Refer to BBCc weather site. www.bbc.co.uk/weather 
Use packages such as “Starting Graph” or “Pic a Picture”
Sea birds  www.indigogroup.co.uk/sos/gulls.html 

 
Compare and contrast localities using powerpoint – add in pictures of own locality.

Effects of weather
Weather watch
Enter information into a data file

Powerpoint of local resort
South Shields

What was the seaside like in the past?

Blackpool Slideshow from Snaith Primary

Where else in the world can we have a seaside holiday?

Use Word Processor 
Photos/Activities from Snaith Primary – find brochures to supplement photos

Write  a poem …now/ then.