Year 5 - Geography Introduction to North America

I recently provided staff training for computing. There is so much to learn and use in computing that I started with just basics, which included @bookcreatorapp.

                    

I love using book creator in class. It is a brilliant tool for children to edit and evaluate their own work. This is how a Year 5 teacher used it after the training.

Year 5 were about to start a topic on North America. The class teacher decided to start with a research project, which worked out amazingly well. The children working in pairs were asked to research 3 examples of physical geography of North America such as rivers, mountains or volcanoes, on Google. Then, they had to make notes on what they considered to be the top 5 important facts about the place/ object chosen.

When all the research was complete the children had to compile a non-fiction reference book about their findings. The key points they had to include were:

• Headings
• Subheadings
• Images
• Labelling
• Facts
• Photos
• And to make it appealing to other children
• And if they wanted, audio

All of the books turned out wonderfully and the children were really excited about their accomplishments. See videos and photos below of the completed work below.

National Curriculum for Geography