KS1 Topic: Oceans and Seas Block A: Oceans and Seas of the World
Learn about the seas that surround the UK. Develop knowledge of the oceans and continents of the
world. Investigate how waves are caused and how they move. Inspired by the stormy seascapes of J. M.
W. Turner, use a variety of techniques to create textured watercolour paintings and turn them into seastorm collages.
Block A: Ocean and Seas of
the World (5 sessions)
By the end of this block you
will have achieved the
following outcomes:
Session 1: Geography/Music
Seas Around the UK
Learn about the seas that
surround the UK; Play a simple
travelling game to consolidate
knowledge.
Session 2: Geography/Maths
Oceans of the World
Develop knowledge of the
oceans and continents of the
world; Play a world passport
game to consolidate
knowledge.
Main outcome: Art
Other outcomes: Geography, Music, Maths, English, Science and History
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Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.
Use drawing and painting to develop and share their ideas, experiences and
imagination.
 Interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps,
globes and aerial photographs.
 Name and locate the world’s 7 continents and 5 oceans.
 Use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key physical features, including
‘sea’, ‘ocean’ and ‘weather’.
 Use world maps, atlases and globes to identify the United Kingdom and its
countries, as well as the countries, continents and oceans studied at this key
stage.
 Use voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants
and rhymes.
 Add and subtract one-digit and two-digit numbers to 20.
 Compare, describe and solve practical problems for lengths and heights [for
example, long/short, longer/shorter, tall/short, double/half].
 Discuss and clarify the meanings of words, linking new meanings to known
vocabulary.
 Discuss their favourite words and phrases.
 Observe closely, use simple equipment and perform simple tests.
 Use observations and ideas to provide answers to questions.
 Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and
consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make
connections.
 Learn about the lives of significant individuals in the past who have
contributed to national and international achievements.
Children will
 Identify the UK on a range of maps and globes, including those online.
 Confirm that the UK is surrounded by seas and that these seas have different
names.
 Record these names on simple maps.
 Listen to a song thematically linked to seas.
 Perform this song as a group.
Children will
 Investigate the proportion of land to ocean on Earth.
 Recognise that the sea on Earth is split into five oceans.
 Learn the names and positions of these oceans.
 Understand the difference between a sea and an ocean.
 Use mathematical language to compare the number and scale of the world’s
oceans and continents.
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KS1 Topic: Oceans and Seas Block A: Oceans and Seas of the World
Session 3: Science/English
Waves in the Oceans
Investigate the way waves are
caused and how they move;
Use investigations to build
wave word banks.
Session 4: Art/History
Painting Waves
Be inspired by the seascapes
of JMW Turner; Use a variety
of techniques to create
different watercolour
paintings ready to create a
sea-storm collage.
Session 5: Art
Creating Sea Collages
Use the watercolour paintings
from Session 4 to create seastorm collages.
Children will
 Investigate the causes of waves in the world’s oceans, focussing on the
influence of the wind and the sun’s heat.
 Explore the ways in which waves move, passing through water rather than
transporting it from one point to another.
 Discover the effects of waves upon beaches.
 Develop their vocabulary for describing the movements and effects of waves.
Children will
 Look carefully at paintings of sea storms by J. M. W. Turner and use these as a
basis for their own work.
 Use the techniques of blotting and adding salt to watercolour to create
different effects of texture and patterning.
 Mix colours to create a range of hues appropriate for use in paintings of the
sea.
 Use a portrait of J. M. W. Turner to analyse differences between the modern
and nineteenth-century worlds.
 Discuss Turner as an influential historical figure both for British people and
others across the world.
Children will
 Create a collage using painted paper.
 Explore the effects of changing the place of elements within a collage, looking
at balance and proportion.
 Offer critical comments about their own and other people’s work.
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KS1 Topic: Oceans and Seas Block A: Oceans and Seas of the World
Resources
Session 1
Provided: Seaplane; Seaplane Scene; UK Outline Map; Labelled UK Outline Map; UK Sea Name Cards
You will need: Atlases; Dice; Counters
Session 2
Provided: World Outline Map; Oceans and Continents Name Cards; Labelled World Outline Map;
Numbered World Outline Map; World Tour Passport
You will need: Globe; Green and blue highlighters; Dice
Session 3
Provided: My Waves Word Bank
You will need: Water; Paint roller trays; Medium-sized pebble; Camping stove ; Small pan; Straws;
Sand, small shells and small pebbles; Dominoes
Session 4
Provided: Portrait of J. M. W. Turner; Painting the Sky, the Sea and a Sailing Boat
You will need: A3 and A5 white paper; Paint brushes; Water; Watercolour paints; Table and sea salt;
Cotton woo; Paper towels
Session 5
You will need: Watercolour paintings (from Session 4); Glue; Scissors
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KS1 Topic: Oceans and Seas Block A: Oceans and Seas of the World
Useful websites for background information:
Continents, oceans and seas
https://www.google.com/earth/
Google Earth
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/World_Continents.htm
World geography tutorial and quizzes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/subjects/earlylearning/nurserysongs/U-Z/when_i_was_one
Song: When I Was One
Waves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yri9AuoyHNo
Video clip: Gentle waves in Rio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiiK0fyIyDA
Video clip: Violent waves in Portland
Turner’s seascapes
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=turner+sea+paintings&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=mvKmVJzdK8iyUfiLgaAL&ved
=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1362&bih=617
Turner’s seascapes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hea4EGL7Pc
Video clip: Montage of Turner’s seascapes
Watercolour painting and collages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZorlHUx1C1s&list=WL&index=61
Video clip: Creating artistic effects on watercolour paintings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyYI0cEN5jA&list=WL&index=60
Video clip: More detail on using salt with watercolours to create textured effects
http://mrsallensartroom.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/winslow-seascapes.html
Examples of watercolour seascape collages
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have been checked by Hamilton Trust (being the operating name of the registered charity, William Rowan Hamilton Trust) and to the best of Hamilton
Trust’s knowledge, are correct and accurate at the time of publication. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other terms and conditions on the Hamilton
Trust website, you acknowledge that Hamilton Trust has no control over such Links and indeed, the owners of such Links may have removed such Links,
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