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Hello.
My name is Ms. Chorekdjian.
I'm so excited to be learning with you today.
I will be guiding you through our lesson.
We're going to do some great learning together.
Let's get started.
Welcome to today's lesson from my unit called "Continents and Oceans: What can we find out about the world?" This lesson is called Earth view, using globes and satellite images.
Your learning outcome will be to use globes, satellite images, and geographical vocabulary to describe Earth.
Some of this learning is brand new, but I'm here to help you.
This links back to previous learning and builds on your knowledge of the world.
You might have also explored areas around your school and the local area around where you live.
We're going to be using all of that learning to think more globally now.
I'm really excited to get started.
I hope you are too.
Here are the key words that we will be using in today's lesson.
Before we find out what they mean, let's practise saying them using my turn, your turn.
Ocean.
Ocean.
Land.
Land.
Atmosphere.
Atmosphere.
Planet.
Planet.
Satellite.
Satellite.
Good job, everyone.
Let's now find out what these words mean.
Ocean.
An ocean is a very big area of salt water between the continents.
Land.
Land is any part of Earth's surface that is not covered by water.
Atmosphere.
The atmosphere is the layer of gases that surrounds Earth.
It includes the oxygen we need to breathe so it is essential for life on Earth.
Planet.
A planet is a large round object that travels around a star in space.
And finally, satellite.
A satellite is an object in space that orbits or circles around a bigger object in space.
These can be natural, like the moon, or artificial ones, like the International Space Station.
I want you to be using these keywords throughout our lesson as well.
Here are the learning cycles that we will be working through together in today's lesson.
First, we will look at our home on Earth, and then we will look at a view of Earth from a satellite.
Are you ready to start your learning? Fantastic.
Let's begin.
We live on a planet in space where the conditions are just right to support all life.
Here's a picture of our planet and you can see around it is space.
That's the dark black area around our planet.
Do you know what this planet is called? Pause the video and talk to your partner.
How did you get on? Did you say that our planet was called Earth? That's correct.
Well done.
You can give yourselves a big thumbs up for that.
This is our planet and it's called Earth.
And on Earth, the conditions are just right to support all life.
Can we all practise saying this together? This planet is called Earth.
Your turn.
This planet is called Earth.
Fantastic.
Well done.
You can give yourselves a pat on the back.
Good job, geographers.
It's now time for a quick check.
The name of the planet we live on is called, A, Mars, B, Earth, or C, Venus.
Pause the video and complete this check.
How did you get on? Did you say B, Earth? That's correct.
The name of the planet we live on is called Earth.
Fantastic, everyone.
Let's move on with our learning.
The conditions on Earth are just right to support diverse life like plants, animals, and humans.
The word diverse means that there's a lot of different types of plants, animals, and humans.
That means that there's a big range of all of those different things.
Earth is our home.
We all live here, and it's really important to remember that we all live here together.
Earth is a home for us humans, but it is also a home for plants, and animals, and insects, and all different types of life that live on Earth.
It's now time for a true or false question.
This means you've got to read this question carefully and think about whether or not the statement is true or false.
So it says, conditions on Earth are just right to support life.
Is that true or false? Pause the video and answer that question.
How did you get on? Did you say true? That's correct.
The conditions on Earth are just right to support life.
So let's think about justifying our answer and explaining why it's true.
There are two reasons here.
A, Earth is home to life like plants, and animals, and humans, or B, Earth is only home to humans.
Which of those two justifies that answer? Pause the video now and complete that check.
How did you get on? Did you say A, Earth is home to life like plants, animals, and humans? That's correct.
The conditions on Earth are just right to support life, and that includes all life.
Well done, everyone.
You can give yourselves a thumbs up.
That's fantastic learning so far.
Planet Earth is a sphere and covered with water called oceans and land.
Above that is an invisible layer of gases called the atmosphere.
So let's go through that again slowly and carefully.
So planet Earth is the shape of a sphere.
That means it's round and almost like a ball or an orange, and it's covered with areas that are water and areas that are land.
And we're going to talk about the different colours and how we recognise oceans and land a little bit later on.
And remember we've talked about the area of invisible gases around the Earth being called the atmosphere on a previous slide.
Well done, everyone.
There's lots of important learning happening here.
We can see the oceans are represented by that blue colour, and we can see the land is represented by that green colour, and then we can also see the atmosphere is the area of gases that surround the Earth.
Most of the Earth's surface, almost 3/4 is made up of water.
Remember that the water on Earth are called oceans.
You can see the water shown on this picture here.
This is why it is known as the Blue Planet.
So Earth has a nickname called the Blue Planet because most of the surface is of the Earth is made up of water.
Do you remember how much? There's a clue on the slide to help you.
It's 3/4.
It's now time to have a quick check.
Roughly how much of the Earth's surface is covered with water? A, less than 1/4, B, 1/2, C, almost 3/4, or D, all of it.
Pause the video and complete that check.
How did you get on? Did you say C, almost 3/4? That's correct.
Almost 3/4 of the Earth's surface is covered with water.
Good job, everyone.
You can give yourselves another thumbs up.
It's now time for a true or false question.
Remember we've looked at true or false questions before.
So you've got to think really carefully about if this statement is true or false.
It says Earth is called the Green Planet.
Is that true or false? Pause the video and complete that check.
How did you get on? Did you remember that the Earth has got a little nickname? But that little nickname was not the Green Planet, so the answer was false.
That nickname for Earth was the Blue Planet.
I wonder if we can remember what the Blue Planet means to help us justify whether or not, to help us justify why this statement is false.
Is it false Because A, Earth is called the Blue Planet because about 3/4 of the Earth's surface is covered with water, or B, Earth surface is called the Green Planet because about 3/4 of the Earth surface is covered with land? Pause the video and justify why that statement is false.
How did you get on? Did you say A? That's correct.
Earth is called the Blue Planet because about 3/4 of the surface is covered with water, not land.
Well done if you got that right.
I was really trying to trick you there to make sure that you remembered the key information.
Good job, geographers.
It's now time for task A.
What I would like you to do is to label the diagram with the words below.
One has been done for you.
So the words that I would like you to label are satellite, And you can see there that the word satellite is pointing to a picture of a satellite on that diagram.
The other words that I would like you to label are land, atmosphere, planet, and ocean.
Pause the video now and complete task A.
Well, geographers, how did you get on? Did you label the diagram like this? Here's the land, and you could have labelled any of the green areas as land.
Here's the ocean.
And you could have labelled any areas that were blue as ocean.
Here's the planet.
So anywhere pointing to the planet would be correct.
And then the atmosphere is that area of gases that are surrounding the Earth.
Well done, everyone.
And also, satellite was already labelled for you.
Good job.
Well done, everyone, for completing that first task.
It's now time to move on with the rest of our lesson.
Now we're going to look at a view of Earth from a satellite.
We can use models called globes and photographs taken from satellites in space to think about what our world, Earth, is like.
Remember that our planet is called Earth.
There's a picture of a globe on the left and a picture of a satellite taking a photograph of Earth on the right.
There's a globe, and then you can see the satellite labelled there, and that's Earth.
So imagine that the curve of the Earth is just the bit that we see at the bottom of that photo.
It's now time for a quick check.
What can we use to think about what the world is like? A, photographs taken from a satellite, B, a map of our local area, or C, globes.
I'll give you a clue.
You can select more than one answer to be right here.
Pause the video and complete this check.
How did you get on? Did you say A, photographs taken from a satellite, and C, globes? That's correct.
We can use globes and photographs taken from a satellite to think about what our world is like.
Well done, everyone.
I'm going to give you another thumbs up.
That's fantastic learning for today.
On a globe, the water, remember that we call the water on Earth oceans.
And remember that there's roughly 3/4 of the planet that's covered with water.
They're represented as blue.
Darker shades of blue mean the water is deeper there.
So you can see that I've located some ocean on my globe and I'm pointing at the blue areas.
Deeper parts of the ocean are the parts where there are darker shades of blue.
And you can see that I've labelled those deeper parts there, pointing at those dark areas on my globe.
On a globe, the land is represented by different colours which can give us information, such as borders between countries, altitude, that means how higher place is, and areas of trees and plants or deserts.
So you can see the land there represented by different colours.
A photograph taken from a satellite in space represents the water, so remember the waters are called oceans, as blue, and the land as green, with some small areas of yellow, brown, and even white in some cold polar areas.
So you can see that the water from the satellite's image is blue, and then the land is represented by those different colours.
The green colours, brown, yellow, and remember the white also represents land, but it means that it's colder, and it might be icy or covered in snow.
A satellite's image of Earth provides information about Earth.
By zooming in, you can see human and physical features, such as rivers, mountains, cities, bridges, and even houses in more detail.
You can get all of that information from a satellites image.
Let's have a quick check here.
The colour of water on satellite images is mostly, A, pink, B, blue, or C, green.
Pause the video and answer that check.
How did you get on? Did you say blue? That's correct.
The colour of water on satellite images is mostly blue.
Well done if you got that right.
You can give yourselves another thumbs up.
This is great learning today, geographers.
Well done.
Let's explore some satellites images together.
Can you identify where the land or the oceans are? Where can you see land or oceans here? Pause the video and tell your partner.
Good job, everyone.
I'm sure you located all of those blue areas as oceans and all of those green areas and yellow areas as land.
Fantastic.
Have a look at this satellite image now.
Think again about where the land or the oceans are.
Pause the video and tell your partner.
Good job.
So did you find the blue areas as the oceans? And then the more browny, yellowy areas, did you identify them as land? Good job.
Well done if you did.
And then the final photograph, have a look here.
Can you see what's land and what's ocean? Pause the video and tell your partner.
Good job.
Again, did you identify that the blue areas were the oceans and then the green, brown, or white areas were the land? Remember that land can be represented as white if it's in the colder arctic or polar regions.
Well done if you've got all of those right.
Good job, everybody.
Let's zoom into some satellites, images together.
Remember I said that zooming into satellites images can give us more information about Earth and our planet.
So here's the global view.
So this is a view that's zoomed out and then we can zoom into a country view.
So all of us live in the United Kingdom.
There it is located on that global view so we can find out more information about our country and maybe the four countries that make up the United Kingdom.
And then if we want to zoom in further to see our local view, we can see the river that goes through that town.
So I live in London, and that's my local view.
I can see the River Thames, and I can see all the different parts of London.
So that's how we can use satellites images to help us find out more information about different places.
It's now time for a check.
This satellite's image is showing a, A, global view, B, country view, or C, local view.
Pause the video and answer that check.
How did you get on? Did you say B, country view? That's correct because it's showing a map of the UK, the United Kingdom, and that is a country view.
Well done, everyone.
You can give yourselves a big thumbs up.
It's now time for task B.
So what I would like you to do for the first part of task B is to identify the areas of land, water, so the areas where there's oceans, or atmosphere.
And then for the second part of this task, I'd like you to answer this question.
What information can globes or satellites images give us about Earth? Pause the video now and complete task B.
How did you get on, geographers? Did you label the oceans as being the blue areas? Good job if you did.
Did you label the green, the brown, yellow, or white areas on this satellite's image as being land? Well done if you did.
And then did you identify that area of gases around our planet as the atmosphere? Good job.
Well done if you did.
And then to answer that question, you could've said something like globes and satellites images can give us information about Earth such as if there is land or ocean.
They can also show us details like whether the land has desert or trees.
You could have written something like that or you could have written something else.
You could have said that they give us details about a global view, a country view, or a local view.
Remember I talked about the River Thames in that local view.
So you could have also said that it gives us details like mountains or rivers.
Good job, everyone.
You've worked really hard today using globes and satellite images and geographical vocabulary to describe Earth.
We've now come to the end of our lesson.
So let's go through a quick summary of all the learning that we've completed together today.
The round Earth is covered with water and land, and above that is the atmosphere.
We use models called globes and photographs taken from space to think about what the world is like.
Most of the surface of the world, over 3/4, is covered with water, which is why it is known as the Blue Planet.
The colours on a globe or satellites image give us information such as whether it's land or ocean.
Good job, everyone.
You've been fantastic today.
You can give yourselves one last thumbs up.
Thank you for joining me today and for sharing your learning with me.
See you next time for more geography lessons soon.
Bye.
