A four-week ocean unit for KS1: how wind makes currents, why the five oceans are really one, and three animals that drift, glide and dive.

Children make a current on a baking tray, find out how much of the Earth is sea with a world map and their eyes shut, and follow the Gulf Stream all the way to Britain and Ireland.

Four weeks of lessons

• The ocean never stands still - make a current and watch paper sailors travel
• One big ocean - name the five oceans and follow the great ocean loop
• Drift, glide, dive - meet three ocean travellers and build shearwater wings
• The ocean detective - order the shearwater’s year and follow the sunfish’s dive

Meet the ocean travellers

• By-the-wind sailor - a jellyfish cousin with a sail, carried where the wind sends it
• Manx shearwater - glides low over the waves and flies to South America and back each year
• Ocean sunfish - one of the heaviest bony fish, diving deep for jellyfish

What’s inside - 32 pages

• A lesson plan for each week, with EYFS and KS1 links
• Three creature spotlight pages
• Tray current experiment and a sea-or-land map tally
• The five oceans and the Gulf Stream loop to trace
• Ocean words, a short rhyme to trace and a sequencing page
• Number-line dive, a seabird picture graph and pattern puzzles
• Life-size shearwater wingspan to cut and tape
• Spot the mistakes and a hidden-object ocean scene
• Ocean journal, a feelings page and a month review
• Ocean loop fruit plate
• Notes for adults on ocean safety, and an answer key

Why teachers and parents love this unit

• The science kit is a baking tray, a jug, straws and paper
• Works anywhere: everything happens at a table or a window
• Geography and science together, from the five oceans to animal migration
• Five picture books to read together
• Botanical watercolour illustrations throughout

Instant PDF download, 32 pages. A4 and US Letter. Print as many copies as you need for your class or family.

Created by Lex & Fox Press using a mix of human and AI techniques.