Connected Curriculum Learning Adventure
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Meet the Flintstones
Majestic Mayans?
Superheroes
Water, water everywhere!
Travelling through our World
Primary Focus:
Understanding our
World(Humanities-History)
Primary Focus:
Exploring our World
(Science)
Primary Focus:
Expressing Ourselves
(Arts)
Primary Focus:
Understanding our World
(Humanities-Geog)
Primary Focus:
Mathematical Understanding (Maths)
Secondary Focus:
Exploring our World
(Science)
Secondary Focus:
Expressing Ourselves
(Arts)
Secondary Focus:
Understanding our World
(Humanities-Geog)
Secondary Focus:
Mathematical Understanding (Maths)
Secondary Focus:
Understanding our World
(Humanities)
Intriguing Questions
Who was the first superhero?
What characteristics should a
superhero have?
Where would a superhero live?
What kinds of crimes are common
today and how do we punish them?
What were te crimes in the past Romans.
How has the ROman justice system
influenced law today?
Saxons /Vikings - how did crime and
punishment change when the
ROmans left? What of Britain’s most
famous outlaw Robin Hood?
Weregild and Tithingmen? Medieval
and Tudor times
mutilations and fines. Why were
crimes harshly dealt with? Early
modern period - the Gunpowder plot
and the Civil War.
What was the ‘Bloody Code’
Is there less crime now than in the
past? Debate
Do our punishments today link with
the past?
Intriguing Questions
Do we all have access to fresh water?
Water around the world
What kind of problems might arise
from using
river water?
What do you think might be included
in
‘waterborne diseases’?
Soluble and insoluble pollutants (link
to SC filtering)
What are micro-orgnaisms? How do
they link with disease?
Why we need water and
how we couldn’t survive
without it.
How countries without
clean water cope and how they can
be helped e.g Wateraid/Oxfam
• Where key rivers are in our country
and the rest of Europe.
Adaptation - how do creatures adapt
to their environment?
Weather and how it
compares in different
countries.
What types of natural disasters are
there? Locations around the world.
Intriguing Questions
Where is the world would you like to
go?
The environment of the airport what is it like?
What environmental challenges to
airports face?
What causes global warming?
What is a carbon footprint?
Investigating sound
Ecology and habits
How has the airport reduced
pollution?
What is my holiday destination like?
Why have I picked to go there?
How must will it cost?
Expolring brochures?
What is the destination like - food,
culture, climate etc.
Fascinating facts.
Intriguing Questions
Intriguing Questions
Why did they build Stonehenge?
Who were the Mayans?
Was Stone Age man just a hunter
Where did they originate from?
gatherer?
Which creatures figure prominently
What was Iron Age life like? How do in Maya art?
we know?
What did Maya do with their family
What was new about the Stone Age? members hen they died?
Which was better to make and use – Did Mayans sacrifice people?
bronze or iron?
Who were the Mayan gods?
Why bury gold and not come back for The Maya civilisation is thought to
it?
have been influenced by which preWhen would you prefer to live –
Mayan culture?
Stone, Bronze or Iron Age?
What were the Mayan people like?
If you were Julius Caesar, would you Where did they live?
have invaded Britain in 555BC?
What was their civilisation like?
What were the cities they built like?
What is the Dresden Codex?
What was the Mayan culture like jobs, beliefs, chronology - timeline.
Outline of unit content
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Outline of unit content
Evolution and inheritance
Carvings, paintings, ceramics
Street Art, Crime and Punishment
Importance of weather – compare
Stone art and carvings
Pottery, weaving
Art – Banksy, Beaver, Lichtenstein
and contract use in Britain and other
Study of Skara Brae (late hunter)
Who were the Myans?
3D artwork
countries
Bronze age religion – technology and Rainforests – Quetzal Bird – animal 3D images/sculpture, clay work, Water shortages and need for
travel
study
graffiti art
conservation
Iron age hill forts, tribal kingdoms, Places, pyramids, why, where?
Legal system today and through time Water cycle, filtration changing state
farming, art and culture
Gods – Wizard of Fatal Laugh, Night, Roman crime and punishment – Safe water – Oxfam
Archaeology/artefacts to encourage Black Wizard
Saxons and Vikings – Gunpowder plot Route of a river (mapping, height,
questioning,
debate,
evidence Cities – environmental links
– Civil War – highwayman, poachers, depth, width, speed)
gathering
Guatemala, discovered by Cortez – smugglers
Field sketches
Leisure time – weaving
invasion/conquest
Robin Hood – myth or reality?
Importance of rivers
Agriculture
Religion – cycles, nature
Relative sizes and properties of
Lifestyle, settlements and houses
Science – stars/calendar – links to
different rivers
Religion and ritual
Lunar calendar for religious traditions
World rivers – fact files
Crimewatch AD50 – who killed the 52 Mask making
Impact of flooding
of Maiden Castle?
Sacrifices
Map/atlas work
Jewellery making
Physical/human features –
Collapse of Mayan culture – why a
settlement
mystery?
Ancient Mariner Poem by
Mayan writing/carving
Samuel Taylor Colleridge.
Outline of unit content
Trade links
Place knowledge
Visiting places
Cost of travel
Planning a holiday
Real life planning – use of brochures
etc.
Fact files of fascinating facts – people
places, cultures, lifestyles, religion
Presentations
Visits/Visitors:
Visits/Visitors:
Visits/Visitors:
Creswell Crags/Buster Iron Age Farm Cadbury World – history of chocolate Art Gallery
Artefacts collection
Visits/Visitors:
Airport/Estate Agents
Visits/Visitors:
Carding Mill Valley
River study – Trent
Blithfield reservoir
Global Dimension:
Global Dimension:
Settlements, forts, cross-channel
Compare with Cancun today,
voyages, 1500BC Trade
Rainforests/deforestation
Continuity and change – houses from Exploration - Cortes
Stone Age to Iron Age
Global Dimension:
Global Dimension:
Crime and punishment in Britain and Climate change, safe water, rivers
in other parts of the world.
around the world
Deportation – Australia, USA
Global Dimension:
Trade links
Knowledge of countries/continents
Science
Properties of materials – link to
structures, tools, cooking
Evolution and inheritance
- fossils
- offspring
adaptation to suit
- environment
Science
Finger print analysis, healthy eating,
microbes, changing state.
Animals, including humans
- Circulatory system
- Impact on lifestyle
Transport of nutrients
Science
Flight, forces, water/air resistance
Boat/plane designs (car competition)
Electricity
- common appliances
- circuits
conductors/ insulators
Science
Astronomy, stars, Lunar calendar
Light
- travels in straight lines
- light/object/eye
- shadow shapes
Science
Water cycle, filtration, states of
matter, fresh water invertebrate
study
Living things and their habitats
- classification
Cooking
Campfire bread, marshmallows
R.E.
Bronze Age Beliefs, burial
mounds/barrows
Cooking
Chocolate links
R.E.
Mayan religion, nature
Cooking
Cooking
Super meal
Fish
R.E.
R.E.
Responsibility, influence of Christian Rules for living, taking responsibility
Church through the ages, importance
of kingship and family ties. Going for
goals.
Cooking
Food from around the world
R.E.
Religion around the world –
pilgrimage?
Life statements – influential people