This video supports teachers in introducing simple map symbols and helping pupils create and apply their own through a guided fictional village mapping activity.
year: Year 1
Teacher video: Construction and evaluation
Discover how this Design and technology video supports teachers and children in making lever-based scenes through clear steps, practical strategies and creative reflection.
Teacher video: Rocket materials
This video helps teachers guide the children in creating a digital list of materials for their rockets, exploring different ways of recording and presenting information digitally.
Teacher video: Animal guess who
This video helps teachers guide the children in creating branching databases using JIT5, reinforcing classification, data organisation and scientific vocabulary.
Teacher video: Representing data
This video helps teachers guide the children in representing data visually using JIT5, creating pictograms, tables and charts to explore and present information.
Teacher video: Photo collage
This video helps teachers guide the children in creating a photo collage in Google Slides, combining images, text and shapes to tell a story while reinforcing digital skills.
Pupil video: What is a compass?
This video helps pupils understand how a compass works and how to use it to describe direction. Pupils learn the four compass points and practise using them with real examples from UK geography.
Pupil video: Weather and Seasons
This video helps younger pupils explore different types of weather, understand the seasons, and learn how the weather affects what we wear and do. It introduces weather symbols, climate and simple geographical vocabulary.
Teacher video: Three little pigs
This video guides teachers in helping the children combine programming with storytelling, introducing debugging and building confidence in problem solving.
