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World Geography (Wild Earth) for 5-8 Year Olds : A Complete Academic Curriculum

This exciting weekly course covers a complete geography academic curriculum in a fun and interactive way. Learners will explore our world through fascinating facts, videos, quizzes, experiments, art and craft, worksheets and much more!
Learning With Love - Science, History, Geography
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What's included

1 live meeting
30 mins in-class hours per week
Homework
1 hour per week. Each week, learners will complete an activity together in class as we explore our wonderful world together. They will also be given a factfile page to print off which can gradually build up into an encyclopaedia of geographical knowledge as well as a sticker to celebrate what they have learnt that lesson. Additionally, there is an optional extra activity that can be completed at home to consolidate their learning.

Class Experience

US Grade Kindergarten - 3
Beginner Level
This exciting weekly course covers a complete geography academic curriculum in a fun and interactive way.   Learners will become immersed in the wonders of geography through fascinating facts, quizzes, experiments, art and craft, worksheets and much more.

Geography can help us understand the planet’s movement, changes and systems.  Topics that are relevant to today such as climate change, water availability and natural resources are much easier understood by those who know geography well.  It also puts history in context.  It helps us see the why, when and how of what happened in history.  Studying geography helps us to have an awareness of a place.  All places and spaces have been shaped by humans, earth and climate.  It gives a meaning and awareness to places and spaces as well as helping learners with spatial awareness on the globe. Understanding direction and where things are in the world is still a vital skill, despite having easy access to this information online.

More and more, we are a worldwide community — joined by causes, conflicts, business and families.  Geography matters today more than ever because our learners are growing up in a globalised world.  The study of geography opens up learners' awareness to what is around them locally and globally, and the connectedness of people within those places.  This knowledge can help them think critically about the world as they become the world's government, business and family leaders of the future.  Geography teaches us about our differences, but also about our similarities which can help us all to be better global citizens.

Whether your learner is home schooled or you would just like them to explore a broader curriculum than most schools offer, this course will take them on an epic journey from the beginning of time and space, through planets to underwater habitats as well as into volcanoes and earthquakes.  My goal is to inspire them to become lifetime learners with a thirst for knowledge.  They will have the opportunity to develop their skills in understanding, communicating, empathising and analysing at an age appropriate level.  

Learners are welcome to join any topic that is of particular interest or stay for a longer period of time to cover a full geography curriculum.  Each weekly lesson is a standalone topic and does not need previous knowledge.  Below are the topics that will be covered over the next few months.

What is covered in this course?

Super Space!
Week Beginning 	8th April 2024	The Big Bang! How The Earth Was Formed
Week Beginning 	15th April 2024	The Splendid Solar System
Week Beginning 	22nd April 2024	Mission Space!
Week Beginning 	29th April 2024	Living In Space
Week Beginning 	6th May 2024	Digging Deep! Layers Of The Earth
Week Beginning 	13th May 2024	As Different As Night And Day
Week Beginning 	20th May 2024	Months And Phases Of The Moon
Week Beginning 	27th May 2024	Break (No Lesson This Week)
		

Our Wonderful World
Week Beginning 	3rd June 2024	Where  Do You Live? The 7 Continents
Week Beginning 	10th June 2024	Our Amazing Oceans
Week Beginning 	17th June 2024	Our Changing Land and Oceans
Week Beginning 	24th June 2024	Dive Into The Deep! Layers Of The Ocean
Week Beginning 	1st July 2024	        Exploring Our Oceans
Week Beginning 	8th July 2024   	Living Underwater! Ocean Habitats
Week Beginning 	15th July 2024	Living On The Edge! Ocean Habitats
Week Beginning 	22nd July 2024 	Summer Break (No Lessons)
		             - 26th August 2024
   

Water, Water, Everywhere!
Week Beginning 	2nd September 2024	The One Where We Make Our Own Watercycle!
Week Beginning 	9th September 2024	Tremendous Tides and Waves
Week Beginning 	16th September 2024	Changing Coastlines
Week Beginning 	23rd September 2024	Raging Rivers
Week Beginning 	30th September 2024	Journey Of A River
Week Beginning 	7th October 2024	        How Do We Use Rivers?
Week Beginning 	14th October 2024	Terrifying Tsuanamis
Week Beginning 	21st October 2024	Break (No Lesson This Week)
Week Beginning 	28th October 2024	Break (No Lesson This Week)

		
Mountains, Volcanos And Earthquakes
Week Beginning 	4th November 2024	How Mountains Are Made
Week Beginning 	11th November 2024	Famous Mountains
Week Beginning 	18th November 2024	Volcano!
Week Beginning 	25th November 2024	Timeline Of An Eruption
Week Beginning 	2nd December 2024	Predicting and Preparing For An Eruption
Week Beginning 	9th December 2024	Eek! It's An Earthquake!
Week Beginning 	16th December 2024	Living In An Earthquake Zone
Week Beginning 	23rd December 2024	Break (No Lesson This Week)
Week Beginning 	30th December 2024	Break (No Lesson This Week)


Coming Up In Future Weeks:
Extreme Earth
Save Our World!
Brilliant Biomes
Marvellous Maps
Serious Settlements
Fantastic Fieldwork
Learning Goals
Locational knowledge
- locate the world’s countries, using maps concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities.
- explore key topographical features (including mountains, coasts and rivers), and land-use patterns; and understand how some of these aspects have changed over time.
- identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern  Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, Arctic and 
Antarctic Circle and time zones (including day and night).

Place knowledge
- understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography.

Human and physical geography
- describe and understand key aspects of:
          * physical geography, including: climate zones, rivers, mountains, volcanoes, earthquakes, and the water cycle.
          * human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution 
            of natural resources including energy,  food, minerals and water.

Geographical skills and fieldwork
- use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied.
- use the eight points of a compass, four and six-figure grid references, symbols and keys to build their knowledge of the world.
- use fieldwork to observe, measure, record and present the human and physical features in the local area using a range of methods, including sketch maps, plans and graphs, and digital technologies
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Other Details

Learning Needs
The class is taught by a teacher who is very experienced with children who have learning needs. We ensure that the lessons and worksheets are inclusive. We can also adapt learning materials for specific needs if required.
Supply List
All materials for each lesson will be posted in the classroom at least 24 hours in advance.  Learners should print out the class worksheet and bring it to the lesson so that we can complete it together.  They should also have a supply of basic stationary such as paper, pencils, crayons, scissors and glue.
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
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Teacher expertise and credentials
This course will be taught by a UK qualified teacher who has over 15 years experience of teaching children from age 3-11.  They hold a BA (Hons) and MA in Education which qualifies them to teach all subjects in the UK Primary Curriculum which includes geography.  The course overview and resources have been developed by a UK qualified teacher who specialises in educational course design.

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weekly
1x per week
30 min

Completed by 93 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 5-8
2-6 learners per class

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