A trip to the seaside for Foundation and KS1

Well I hope Father’s Day went well for those of you who celebrated it. In the end my six-year-old went for the ‘cup of tea in bed plus a set of BBQ tools’ present option. The tools were then used to cook breakfast over a camp fire on the beach. She promised to catch us a lobster to go with our bacon butties but needless to say it didn’t materialise. You can’t have everything I suppose.

 

Beach huts ( Type beach huts into the KnowledgeBox Quick find to find this image)

 Staying with the seaside theme, and as we are now in the last few weeks before the holidays, I thought it might be useful to point out some of the resources on KnowledgeBox that will help you to teach about the seaside

 

BBC Active's Find Out About the Seaside

The NEW BBC Active Find Out About The Seaside module has everything you need to take a historical and geographical approach to this topic. There are clips from both the BBC’s Barnaby Bear and Magic Grandad series plus activities and games to develop knowledge and skills. A really useful cross-curricular resource.

If you don’t have Find Out About The Seaside on your KnowledgeBox and would like to find out more about this module, please call 0800 567 8032 or email enquiries@uk.knowledgebox.com.

 

At the seaside: Interactive Photo Album

Use the on-screen tools to interact with the photos in the At the seaside: Interactive Photo Album ( Type  At the seaside into Quick find) and have lots of discussions about what it’s like at the seaside, what you can see and what people do. Don’t forget that if you go to the module in the Contents panel, all of the photos are individually available for you to download . You can use them on your whiteboard, for displays, games, activity sheets or whatever you like.

You’ll find even more photos if you type coast or seaside into Quick find.

Talking book; Minnie's Kite ( from Essential Literacy KS1)

Type Minnies Kite Talking Book into Quick find and use this resource from the Essential Literacy KS1 module to develop literacy skills around a seaside theme. You can read or listen to the story, identify text features using interactive tools and explore the illustrations with an electronic magnifying glass – ideal for your whiteboard.

There’s a variety of resources in the Geography KS1 Question path: Going to the seaside ( Type Going to the seaside into Quick find)  including photos, pictures, web-links and print activities. You may find the Going to the seaside: Seaside map, Travelling to the seaside, What can you see: Seaside print activities particularly useful.

And finally…
Don’t forget to take a look at the Weblinks KS1 module where you’ll find links to lots of really useful web-sites.

I’ve just heard the forecast and the temperature is going to reach 31 degrees in London this week so a virtual or real trip to the seaside is a must. Have a good trip!

Catharine

Producer