Here you can find the teaching plans for each unit in pdf
format. Please read the introduction before using the
plans.
Please let us know of any errors or omissions and we will
be happy to make amendments very quickly.
The same information for teachers as in the main menu,
but as a single pdf document for download or printing
A possible outline timetable for a themed week on
sustainable travel
Unit 1: Literacy: "If affects me" - reading a letter;
interviewing; report writing (approx 2 hours)
Unit 2: Maths/Geog: "Traffic in the UK" - analysing UK
traffic data; drawing graphs; drawing conclusions (2 - 3
hours)
Unit 3: Science/Geog: "Global climate change" -
Understanding global climate change through a web based
study (2 hours)
Unit 4: Maths/Geog: "Planning traffic data collection" -
Planning the collection of traffic data outside school
over a full day (1 hour)
Unit 5: Maths/Geog: "Collecting data" - Collecting and
recording traffic data outside school (1 day)
Unit 6: Maths/Geog: "What is the traffic like outside our
school?" - Recording and analysis of traffic data from
survey outside school
Unit 7: Geog/PSHE: "Local impacts of congestion" - How
does congestion affect us economically, socially,
environmentally and personally
Unit 8: Maths/Geog: "What does our school travel survey
tell us?" - Graphing the School Travel Survey and drawing
conclusions
Unit 9: Geog: "My journey to school" - Plotting journeys
to school, working out distances and highlighting
possible problems
Unit 10: Geog: "Walking the walk" - Trying out a walk to
school route, mapping it and identifying ways in which it
can be made safer and more attractive
Unit 11: Literacy: "Geog: Carrots and sticks - problem
solvers" - Local solutions to global climate change and
local congestion
Unit 12: Literacy: "Communicating solutions" - Changing
the behaviour of children, parents and the wider
community
Unit 13: Literacy/PSHE: "Campaign" - Planning how to
persuade children, parents and the wider to community to
move to more sustainable travel behaviour