Lesson video

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 our unit called Continents and Oceans, What Can We Find Out About the World? This lesson is called Mapping the world: locating the continents.

Your learning outcome will be to understand that a map is a 2D model of the world and to know what the continents and oceans are.

Some of the 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 used globes, satellite images and geographical vocabulary to describe Earth.

I'm really excited to get started.

I hope you are too.

Here are all the keywords that we will be using together in today's lesson.

Before we find out what they mean, let's practise going through them together.

Let's do my turn, your turn.

2D, 2D, 3D, 3D, continent, continent, ocean, ocean.

Good job, everyone.

Let's go through the definitions and find out what they mean.

2D, a two-dimensional 2D object is flat.

Its dimensions are height, top to bottom and width, side to side.

3D, a three-dimensional 3D object is solid.

Its dimensions are height, top to bottom, width, side to side and depth, front to back.

Continent, a continent is a large landmass on Earth and there are seven, Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, South America and Oceania.

Ocean, an ocean is a very big area of salt water between the continents.

Good job, everyone.

I want you to be using these keywords throughout our lesson.

Here are the learning cycles that we will be working through together in today's lesson.

First, we will look at what 3D globes and 2D maps are and then we will look at the seven continents and find out what they are.

Are you ready to start your learning for today? Fantastic, let's begin.

Planet Earth is a sphere.

Remember a sphere means round like this and shaped like a ball and covered with water called oceans and land.

The air above Earth's surface is called the atmosphere.

Globes show us what our round 3D world looks like but it is hard to make a 2D, which means a flat map of a 3D round world.

So imagine you've got our 3D, our sphere shaped world like this and imagine trying to roll out that sphere or that globe and make it into a flat 2D map.

That's quite difficult.

And because it's so difficult, some of the maps of the world can look quite different from each other.

This is what a 3D globe looks like.

So it's in that sphere shape.

And then if we try and flatten it out into a 2D map, it might look like this.

So imagine here's my sphere and I've curled out the edges and I've made it flat.

So you can see the curved edges represent our curved world.

Let's have a quick check here.

Which image shows a 2D map? Is it A, B or C? Pause the video and complete that check.

How did you get on? Did you say A? That's correct.

Image A shows a 2D map.

Good job, everyone.

You can give yourselves a thumbs up.

2D maps can show the world in different ways and from different perspectives.

That means from different views.

Our country, the UK, is often shown at the centre of a 2D world map with North at the top.

There you can see the UK is located, but it doesn't have to be like this.

Here you can see that this 2D map has been flipped upside down.

So the UK doesn't have to always be represented at the top with North.

You can see there it is at the bottom on this version of a 2D map.

Often land is coloured green, but sometimes other colours are used to show areas of desert or ice.

Think about some colours that might be used for desert or ice.

Pause the video and have a guess what colours might be used to represent them.

How did you get on? Did you say that yellow or orange might be used to represent desert and white might be used to represent ice or snow? Good job, that's correct.

Well done.

You can give yourselves another thumbs up.

There you can see all the different places where land is represented on this 2D map.

Water is usually represented as blue.

So you can see that water is represented in those areas as well.

Let's have another check here.

Water on maps is usually coloured which colour? A, green, B, blue, C, white, or D, yellow.

Pause the video here and answer this check.

How did you get on? Did you say B, blue? That's correct.

Water on maps is usually coloured as blue.

Good job, everyone.

You can give yourselves another thumbs up.

That's fantastic learning.

Earth's water is represented as blue on this 2D map.

It can be divided into five oceans.

I wonder if you can work out where the oceans are.

If you don't know, that's totally fine.

We'll be learning about them in another lesson.

But see if you can locate where they might be.

How did you get on? Did you think that the oceans could be represented here? There's an ocean.

There's the second ocean.

Another ocean is here.

Here's the fourth ocean.

And finally, the fifth ocean is here.

Well done if you were able to guess the locations of all of those oceans.

Let's have another check here.

How many oceans are there? A, five? B, six? Or C, seven? Pause the video and answer that check.

How did you get on? Did you remember that there are A, five oceans in the world? Good job.

Give yourselves another thumbs up.

Fantastic learning so far.

It's now time for task A.

I would like you to tell your buddy or your geography partner what the difference is between a 3D globe and a 2D map.

Pause the video here and complete task A.

How did you get on? Did you say a 2D map is flat and can be turned around to show the world from different points of view? Remember we use the word perspective as well which also means different points of view.

And then did you say something like a 3D globe is shaped like a sphere and it is round.

It shows us what our world looks like.

Well done if you said something similar and you were able to talk about the differences between a 2D map and a 3D globe.

Good job, everyone.

I'm going to give you a big thumbs up.

Well done.

Let's continue with our learning.

Now we're going to move on to looking at what the seven continents are.

The land shown on this 2D map can be divided into large blocks of land called continents.

I wonder if you can work out where the continents are.

Think about a large block of land.

Pause the video and see if you can work out where the continents are.

How did you get on working out where the large blocks of lands are? Did you think about which areas could be belonging to the same continent? Let's have a look at this world map divided into continents.

The continents are shown by different colours on this map.

Can you see how many there are? Have a look at this map and count all of the continents.

Remember that each continent is represented by a different colour.

How many are there? Pause the video and talk to your partner.

How did you get on? Did you say that there are seven continents? Well done, good job if you did.

We're going to go through each of the seven continents and name and locate them.

There are seven different areas of land divided into continents on this map.

It's now time for a quick check.

How many continents are there? Five, six or seven? Pause the video and complete this check.

How did you get on? Did you say seven? That's correct, there are seven continents.

It's now time to continue finding out what these continents are.

Continents are large areas of land.

They usually have lots of different countries within them.

This is the continent of Africa.

So can you see that's one big, large area of land and it's all coloured in yellow.

It also has lots of different lines within that block of land.

The lines within the continent show the borders of the countries.

So lots of different countries make up the continent of Africa.

It's now time for a quick check.

I'd like you to explain what a continent is.

You can do that by reading these sentences and using the words at the bottom to complete the sentences to make them true.

The words you can choose from are five, continents, countries and seven.

Let's read through the explanation together.

Large blocks of land on earth are called m.

There are lots of different m within them.

There are m continents on earth.

They are surrounded by m oceans.

Pause the video now and complete that check.

Good job, everyone.

How did you get on? Did you fill in those missing gaps with the words from the bottom? Let's check if you completed these sentences correctly.

Large blocks of land on earth are called continents.

There are lots of different countries within them.

There are seven continents on earth.

They are surrounded by five oceans.

Good job, everyone.

Well done, if you got that right, you can give yourselves a thumbs up.

Let's continue with our learning.

Do you already know the names of any continents? I've given you a clue and I've told you that the yellow one in the middle is called Africa.

I wonder if you know any of the other continents.

Pause the video now and discuss the names of these continents with your partner.

You can also do this as a think, pair and share activity.

How did you get on? Do you already know the names of some of these continents? This continent here in green is called Europe.

This is the continent that we're from.

We're in the UK and the UK is located in the continent of Europe.

Next, we've got the continent of North America.

That's everything that's coloured in orange on this map.

Then we have the continent of South America.

South America is connected to North America.

Here we've got Asia.

Asia is everything that you can see coloured in cream.

Then we've got Africa, which I've told you about already in yellow.

Then we've got Oceania, which is coloured in a pinky red colour.

And finally, we've got Antarctica, which is coloured in white.

These are the seven continents.

Let's practise saying them together.

Europe, Europe.

North America, North America.

South America, South America.

Asia, Asia.

Africa, Africa.

Oceania, Oceania.

Antarctica, Antarctica.

Good job, everyone.

Hopefully that will help you remember the names of the seven continents.

Let's have a quick check here.

Can you remember the names of the seven continents? Can you locate them correctly? Pause the video and name and locate the seven continents.

How did you get on with this check, everyone? Were you able to name and locate the seven continents? Did you say that this continent was called Europe? Did you locate North America? Were you able to locate South America? What about Asia? Did you find Africa? Did you locate Oceania? And finally, were you able to recognise that this was Antarctica? Well done, everyone, if you were able to name and correctly locate the seven continents.

If you were able to name them, but you weren't quite able to locate them just yet, that's totally fine.

You can pause the video here and go through the seven continents again if you need another reminder.

Well done, everyone.

Let's continue with our learning.

Some continents are connected, such as North and South America, and Asia and Europe.

Here's the connection between North and South America.

And then you can also see how Europe is connected there to Asia.

Other continents, such as Asia and Oceania, include islands.

There you can see where we've included the islands in those continents as well.

So I know at the start of the video, we said that continents were large blocks of land.

That's true.

Continents are large blocks of land, but they do include the islands that are close by as well, as you can see in that Asia and Oceania example.

There are also some other islands in other continents.

For example, the UK is an island and we're in the continent of Europe.

So using this map where all the continents are coloured will really help you to remember where each continent is located and which countries and areas are included within that continent.

We can use maps to locate places we are from.

The UK is located in the continent of Europe.

There you can see it located.

Can you name some other countries in Europe? I wonder if you know any other countries in Europe.

Pause the video and answer that check.

How did you get on? Did you say countries like France, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, Ireland? There are lots of countries that are in Europe and well done if you were able to name them.

You can give yourselves a big thumbs up.

Good job, everyone.

We can use maps to help us find out information about continents, like the countries they contain and how big they are.

I wonder if you can guess which continent is the largest and which continent is the smallest.

Pause the video and see if you can work that out.

How did you get on? Did you say that Asia is the largest continent? Good job, well done if you did.

Did you say that Oceania is the smallest continent? Good job, well done if you did.

Oceania is smaller than Europe, although I know that a lot of you might have also said Europe as well.

Well done, everyone.

It's now time for another check.

Which continent is the largest? A, Asia, B, Europe, or C, North America? Pause the video and complete that check.

How did you get on? Did you say that Asia was the largest continent? Good job, well done if you did.

It's time for another check.

Which continent is the smallest? A, Europe, B, Oceania, or C, South America? Pause the video and complete that check.

How did you get on? Did you say B, Oceania? Well done, good job, that's right.

Give yourselves a big thumbs up for working through those checks.

It's now time for task B.

What I would like you to do for the first part of task B is to name and locate the seven continents by labelling this map.

Then for the second part of task B, I'd like you to answer this question.

Which continent is the UK in? Locate it on your map.

Pause the video and complete task B.

How did you get on? Did you label the seven continents? So there's Europe, here's North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Antarctica.

Well done if you completed the first part of task A like that and you're able to name and locate all of the seven continents.

For the second part of task B, I wanted you to locate where the UK was and tell me which continent it was in.

There it is, the UK is in the continent of Europe.

I can locate it here on the map and then you can see the arrow pointing to the UK.

Good job, everyone, you've worked really hard there.

We've come to the end of our lesson now.

You did really well thinking about the differences between 2D and 3D maps and also locating and labelling the seven continents.

Let's just go through a quick summary of all the learning that we've completed together today.

It is hard to make a 2D map of a 3D world and so maps of the world can look quite different from each other.

We call large blocks of land continents and there are seven of these on Earth.

The seven continents are called Europe, Africa, North America, South America, Asia, Oceania and Antarctica.

Some continents such as North and South America are connected and some such as Oceania include lots of islands.

Well done, everyone, you've worked really hard 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.

Goodbye.