Cross Curricular Planning: Seaside

Many skills and concepts can be taught through a single activity or series of theme-based activities.  In this post I share ideas on how to teach young children who are blind or visually impaired or students with multiple disabilities about numeracy, literacy, geography, science and history.

 

For other cross-curricular theme-based approach activities, see some of my other posts: http://www.pathstoliteracy.org/users/gwyn52

 

• Collect pebbles & shells, and sort by similar and different, large and small. 
• Estimate capacity of different sized buckets to hold sand, water. 
• Make shapes with sand using different buckets and moulds. 
• Count number of shovels of sand to fill bucket. 
• Make patterns with shells.
• Count on and back, in 2’s, 5’s 10’s etc

 

• Find sounds that remind us of the seaside.
• Write a story about a day out at the seaside.
• Have a picnic on the beach!
• Make a list and taste foods that you might eat at the beach.
• Assemble the things you might take for a day out on the beach. Use for role play. 
• Listen to songs about the seaside.

 

 

• Animals, birds  and fish that live near or in the sea
• Location of seaside on map in relation to where child lives
• Distance to seaside from school, from home, from town
• Type of natural materials found on the beach
• Type of activities that take place at the seaside
• Frisbee, cricket, football, swimming, sailing

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  Experiment with sand and water: Talk about and use language to describe what is happening.
• Mix sand with water.
• Make hole in sand and fill with water.
• Make channel for water to flow through sand.
• Use sand to make models and to mould shapes.
• Make patterns in sand.
• Experiment with sand wheel.
• Talk about the type of weather at seaside.
• Discuss clothes suitable for the beach, clothes to protect from the sun.
• Play with model boats and float on water.
• Sort items for the beach into textures that feel similar and different.

 

 

• How did the seaside look 100 years ago?
• What type of clothes did people wear on the beaches back then?
• Find pictures of seaside from 100 years ago.