Year 2 Hakuna Matata Topic Web

How is the landscape of the Serengeti Can you name and locate the world’s continents and oceans?

We will be learning to use atlases to locate different places including continents, countries, oceans and seas. We will be looking at the location of Kenya within the continent of Africa and we will discover what countries share a border with

different to Talke?

Using different sources we will find out about the physical features of Kenya. We will learn to use geographical words to describe different places and explain what we like and dislike about different localities.

What would your day be like if you lived in Nairobi?

Using videos, the internet, books and photographs, we will find out what life is like for children living in Kenya and discuss the similarities and differences with our lives.

Kenya.

Which animals would you find living in Kenya?

Can you create African inspired

We will research the animals that live in Kenya

art?

What are the main differences in the

and write non-chronological reports about them. In

We will be using different media to

climate of Kenya and the United Kingdom?

Science, we will be learning about habitats and

create artwork inspired by the

We will learn to use thermometers to gather

food chains.

landscape, animals and culture of Kenya.

information about the temperature. We will also use the internet to find out what the climate is like in different parts of Africa, including Kenya.

Challenge:

Can you learn to say some phrases in Swahili?

Maths Links  Zookeeper feeding times  Animal Measurements  Comparing the mass of

different animals

Can you name and locate the world’s

How is the landscape of the Serengeti

continents and oceans?

different to Talke?

Name and locate the world’s seven continents

Understand geographical similarities and

and five oceans .

differences through studying the human

Use world maps, atlases and globes to identify

and physical geography of a small area of

the United Kingdom and its countries, as well as the countries, continents and oceans studied at

the United Kingdom, and of a small area in a contrasting non-European country.

this key stage.

What would your day be like if you lived in Nairobi?

Understand geographical similarities and differences through studying the human and physical geography of a small area of the United Kingdom, and of a small area in a contrasting non-European country.

Use simple compass directions (North, South, East and West) and locational and directional language to describe the location of features and routes on a map.

Which animals would you find living in Kenya?

Identify that most living things live in habitats

Can you create African inspired

to which they are suited and describe how

art?

different habitats provide for the basic needs of

To develop a wide range of art and

different kinds of animals and plants, and how

design techniques in using colour,

they depend on each other

pattern, texture, line, shape, form

Describe how animals obtain their food from

and space

Identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in

plants and other animals, using the idea of a

To use drawing, painting and

the United Kingdom and the location of hot and

simple food chain, and identify and name

sculpture to develop and share

different sources of food.

their ideas, experiences and

What are the main differences in the climate of Kenya and the United Kingdom?

cold areas of the world in relation to the Equator and the North and South Poles .

imagination