Geography KS1 Spring Cycle A Settlements and Farming

Intent To develop, regardless of ability or background, children with a greater understanding and knowledge of the world and their place in it. Children develop knowledge, vocabulary and skills that are transferable to - or contextualised within - other curriculum areas.

What should I already know? Key Knowledge - I live in the Europe, in the United - Find where the best place to build a Kingdom, England. settlement is. - It is a village. - Know the best place to build a - The United Kingdom is surrounded settlement is where you are near water, by ocean. are protected and have places to hunt. - The continents used to all be joined - Make a map of surviving Stone Age and together. Iron Age settlements across the UK.

- Find out about the settlement Skara Brae. Key Vocabulary - Skara Brae is found on the Orkney Islands off Scotland. The village is older than the Word Definition pyramids and Stonehenge. Skara Brae A Stone Age settlement on an island off Scotland. - It teaches us how Stone Age people made houses and what tools they made. Farming A way of growing plants or raising animals. - How is the village different to villages in Village A small number of houses close England today? Focus on human and together. physical features. Settlement A place where a group of people - The village shows us they were expert have set up a village. farmers, grew crops and used the land to Crops Plants that a grown. support themselves. Physical A natural feature such as water, - Compare farming in the past to how we mountains, deserts and lakes. feature farm now. Something which has been made or Human feature. built by a person.

Handforth Village And Skara Brae Farming Early Settlements.

When plants and animals are grown or At the beginning settlements in Europe reared on a large scale for people to people lived in small villages or farms. eat, it is called farming. The way people Building houses with materials they could farm has changed over 1000s of years. find. Most people grew cereal grains and kept cattle. They built fences to keep enemies out.