Amy’s Big Day Out

Focus

Exploring the countries and the origins of animals around the world

 

Suitable for

Key stage 1

 

What you need

‘The world’ App

 

What you do

It is a story about Amy the zebra and where about in the world her friends live. The teacher would start by reading the story to the children and then using a world map trying to place the animals in their home continents.

 

Learning benefits

Developing geographical knowledge of the countries and continents and developing knowledge of where animals originate from.

 

Taking it further

Use an atlas to locate the specific places such as where they have visited. Find out more information about the origins of each animal such as visits to a zoo.

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