Teachers’ Notes
This document outlines the content of each section and file and indicates how and
where they can be used in the scheme of work.
Folder
File
Content
Suggestions for
use
KS2 Scheme of Work.
Word document containing
SOW for teaching Cardiff bay
across key stage 2.
Scheme of work for teaching
Cardiff bay as a contrasting
locality for Wales/Europe. SOW
lasts for a whole years geography
teaching, includes differentiation,
suitable for all key stage 2 pupils.
Activities are given lesson links to
SOW.
Use with pupils on journey to
record what they observe on
journey, to help write directions to
Cardiff bay, back in school.
Teachers’ Notes
locality
Collecting Data
worksheet
Estimating Distances
worksheet
Where Do I Live
worksheet
Writing Directions
worksheet
History of Cardiff Bay
Now and Then
worksheet
History of Cardiff
Docklands
Land Use at Cardiff
Bay
Land Use PowerPoint
Land Use worksheet
Geographical
Questions
Pupil Visit Booklet
Asking Questions
Observation worksheet
collecting data on a journey to
Cardiff bay using headings such
as physical, human, roads,
places of interest.
Worksheet for pupils to estimate
and measure distances of
places from Cardiff bay.
Use in school, for estimating and
measuring distances using maps
and atlases.
Word document encouraging
pupils to write geographical
descriptions of their home
location and that of Cardiff bay.
Includes drop down bank of
geographical terms.
Writing frame to support the
writing of directions to Cardiff
bay from school location.
Use in school to help describe
locations using geographical
terms.
Word document including two
pictures of Cardiff bay now and
then for pupils to compare
similarities and differences.
How has Cardiff Bay changed?
Two pictures of Cardiff bay past
and present for observation
comparison to be made.
PowerPoint showing
chronological events in the
changing shape of Cardiff
docklands.
PowerPoint containing images
showing range of land uses at
Cardiff bay. For class discussion
before using worksheet
Uses range of digital images,
pupil order according to
chronological order, using
PowerPoint.
Word document containing
images showing range of land
uses at Cardiff bay. Pupils to
identify and complete.
PowerPoint to support teachers
in supporting geographical
questioning. Examples given
based on Cardiff bay.
Scheme of
Work
Lessons
1-5
Follow on activity based on
collecting data activity to support
writing directions.
Lesson 6
Lesson 7
How can we define the different
areas within the development of
Cardiff Bay? Examine range of
photographs and identify land
use.
Asking geographical questions
about Cardiff Bay. Teacher
resource to inform pupils about
how to ask geographical
questions (PowerPoint)
Asking Questions
worksheet
Pupil worksheet supporting
activity encouraging them to ask
geographical questions about
Cardiff bay and their own
locality.
Pupil worksheet (word doc)
supporting geographical
questioning.
Visit Booklet
Pupil booklet to accompany a
school visit to Cardiff bay ,
including land use , observation
of traffic survey , identification of
sites of interest , visit on the
land train , visit on a boat ride
Visiting Cardiff Bay – collecting
data Activities relating to a visit to
the Bay.
Lesson 8
Lessons
9-12
Comparing Localities
Comparing Cardiff
Bay worksheet
Similarities worksheet
Finding Out about
Cardiff Bay
Housing Patterns
Geographical
Patterns Cardiff Bay
worksheet
Geographical
Patterns Home Town
worksheet
Places of Interest
Cardiff Bay
Cardiff Bay Housing
Patterns PowerPoint
Cardiff Bay Housing
Patterns worksheet
Comparing Lifestyle
and Settlement
Origins
Comparing
Settlement Origins
worksheet
Welsh Lifestyles
Comparison
worksheet
Developing Cardiff
Bay
Changing Cardiff Bay
PowerPoint
Changing Cardiff Bay
Worksheet
across the bay , visit to the
millennium centre.
A research grid encouraging
pupils to collect data about their
home town and Cardiff bay.
A research grid to support
findings about similarities and
findings from the above activity.
Writing frame to support
examination of the geographical
patterns at Cardiff bay.
Writing frame to support
examination of the geographical
patterns in home town or village.
PowerPoint about the Bay,
interactive with pictures and
sounds. Gives an introduction to
the bay, but also provides
websites for pupils to use to find
out more information for
personal research.
PowerPoint containing images
showing types of housing in
Cardiff bay. For class discussion
before using worksheet
Word document including
pictures of range of homes
about the bay area. Writing
frame follows encouraging
pupils to compare and contrast
housing in Cardiff bay with their
home town housing patterns.
Writing frame comparing
settlements in terms of name s,
human and physical features
and reasons why the
settlements began.
Uses census website to collect
data about lifestyles in Wales.
Pupils can use this data to
present findings using data
handling packages in school.
Topics compared include
population , religion, housing
types ,occupations , housing
structures etc
PowerPoint presentation and
worksheet to support proposed
changing developments at the
bay. Pupils act as council
members or members of
organisations wishing to
develop. Use PowerPoint to
support teaching activity.
Comparing your own locality to
Cardiff Bay. Pupils compare data
about Cardiff Bay and own
locality.
Lessons
13-16
Using secondary sources to find
out more about Cardiff Bay –
using a range of evidence to
make conclusions and
comparisons. Teacher and pupil
resource
Lessons
17-18
Comparison of housing in Cardiff
Bay and hometown. Writing
frames and pictures to compare
housing.
Worksheet used to structure
settlement comparison of Cardiff
bay and home town.
Lessons
22-24
Lesson 25
Comparing census data from
website and making conclusions
about quality of life. Possible data
handling exercises to follow from
data collection.
Sustainability and global
citizenship focus – How could
Cardiff Bay be developed in the
future? Create and present plan
for new developments.
Lessons
29-31
National Curriculum Links
KS2 Geography
 To identify a range of physical and human features and geographical patterns
 To know and understand where Cardiff Bay is and how it links to other places.
 To know and understand why Cardiff Bay is like it is and what processes are
contributing to its development.
 To understand how it compares to other places and identify similarities and
differences.
 How and why the locality has changed, is changing and is likely to change in the
future.
 Identify ways in which people affect the environment in Cardiff Bay- recognise
that people have different opinions about environmental and social changes.
 Formulate ideas and opinions about geographical enquiry and skills to research
and understand more about the locality and geographical issues within Cardiff
Bay.
 Wider world interrelationships in terms of decision making and global citizenship.
Key Skills
 Knowledge and understanding of the nature of places, patterns and processes
and interrelationships in geography with increasing accuracy, through both
speaking and listening
 Vocabulary of geographical terms.
 Opportunities to describe, explain, analyses interpret, speculate, synthesise and
come to conclusions in order to develop their competence in geography.
 Gain access to and use written text from which they will extract information.
 ICT skills- Word processing, handling geographical data and using multi-media
and the internet.
 Use investigative and enquiry based approaches in field work to solve problems
and work with others