This LKS2 What is a Capital City? PPT is a great tool to help children learn about capital cities and their importance. The PowerPoint includes teaching slides, questions, tasks and assessment activities to support learning throughout the lesson. Children will learn that most countries have one capital city, though some have more, and that capital cities were often important for trade and transport.

The lesson revisits the United Kingdom’s four capital cities: London (England), Edinburgh (Scotland), Cardiff (Wales) and Belfast (Northern Ireland).

Use alongside our Capital Cities of the UK Worksheet.

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National Curriculum Objectives:

• Name and locate counties and cities of the United Kingdom, geographical regions and their identifying human and physical characteristics, key topographical features (including hills, mountains, coasts and rivers), and land-use patterns; and understand how some of these aspects have changed over time.