Lesson video

Hi everyone, I'm Miss.

Harris and welcome to today's geography lesson.

What's your name? It's lovely to meet you.

Now today, we are answering this question.

How is Alaska different to Cornwall? Now, Alaska is in it a country called the United States of America.

Whereas Cornwall is here in the United Kingdom, and we're going to be comparing the two and looking at the differences that they have.

Now I would really like to go to Alaska for today's lesson.

Do you think you could help me get there? You can, great.

So to get me to Alaska, we are going to need to take a really deep breath like this.

And then we're going to blow, and that will get me to Alaska.

Do you think you can help me? You can, fantastic, right, are you ready? Take a deep breath, ready, and blow out.

It worked, thank you so much for helping me get to Alaska.

Can you see these beautiful mountains behind us and these lovely evergreen trees? Wow, let's get started with today's lesson.

So today we are going to be recapping the seven oceans, where they are.

We're going to look at where is Alaska, where is Cornwall? Then we're going to compare the physical features of Alaska to the physical features of Cornwall.

Now you might not know what physical features mean, but don't worry, we're going to go through it in today's lesson.

You will need an exercise book, a pencil, a coloured pencil, and your brain.

Have you got your brain? If you haven't got any of these things, now is the time to pause the video and go and get them.

So we are geographers.

A geographer is a type of scientist who study the earth, the land and the people, so us.

A geographer studies the, can you say it? The earth, the land and the people, well done.

Now these are our star words.

These are the important words we're going to be using a lot this lesson.

So let's say them out loud.

Can you tell your screen by speaking out loud, ready, Alaska, your turn, Alaska.

Cornwall, mountains, sea, forest, valley, physical feature, physical feature.

Alaska, can you do it faster? Cornwall, good job.

Now here is my map.

Can you remember the location of the seven continents? Let's see if we can remember, I'm going to say a continent and I would like you to point to it, are you ready? Can you point to Asia? Well done.

Did you put your finger on the yellow one? Well done, now can you find Australia? Well done, it's the red one.

Now can you find North America? well done, it's the green one.

Now can you find South America? Well done, these look tricky so well done.

South America's the purple one.

Now can you find, Antarctica, where is Antarctica? Well done, it's at the bottom.

Can you now find Africa? Excellent, it's the orange one.

And lastly, the last continent, can you find Europe, where we live? Great, well done.

Now, this is a world map of lots of countries.

Now in America, they have a really big country, really big, but Alaska is a little bit further away from the United States of America.

It's in North America and it's still part of the United States but it does look like it's part of Canada.

It's up here.

So where my circle is, you can see that that's Alaska, it's a state, it's not a country.

And then next to it, in the light blue, that's Canada, and below that is the United States.

So one is here, and one is up here, over there.

But they're still part of the United States of America.

Where's Alaska? Good, now Alaska is where it's circled in red, but Cornwall is all the way over here in the United Kingdom.

This is a map of the United Kingdom.

Do you know where Cornwall is? Have you been there before, or maybe you live there.

So Cornwall is down here in the South of the United Kingdom.

It's on the tip of the country.

Have you been there before? It's a lovely place.

So we're going to look at what a physical feature is now.

Can you use your finger to follow the words on the screen if you can? Are you ready, so we're going to read it together.

Physical features refer to the natural areas of our land.

Okay, my turn, so just watching this time, physical features refer to the natural areas of our land.

That means that someone hasn't built them or put them there.

They are there naturally.

So these are things like mountains, beaches, forests, cliffs, the weather and the soil.

These are lots of examples of physical features and they are natural areas in our land.

They are, good, natural areas.

So physical features refer to the natural areas of our land.

I'm now going to ask you to write that down and I'm going to get rid of some words, you're going to fill in the gaps, are you ready? Watching, physical features, refer to the areas of our.

Can you pause the video and write that sentence down filling in the gaps? Ready.

Well done, now pick up your coloured pen or pencil and we are going to do something called ticking or fixing, tick or fix.

That means we're going to fix what we've written or we are going to tick it because we got it right.

And it's okay if you didn't get it right, because Miss.

Harris makes mistakes all the time.

So don't worry.

Are you ready? Physical features refer to the natural areas of our land.

So the words natural and land are the ones that are missing.

If you didn't get those right, don't worry.

You can pause the video now and put a nice, neat line through it and write the correct word above it.

But if you've got it right, you can give yourself a tick.

Great, now here are some examples of physical features, the beach, a forest, mountains, a cliff, weather and soil.

There are other things as well like coasts and hills and oceans and rivers.

But I would like you to draw these ones 'cause these are ones that you might remember and they are relatable to today's lesson.

So can you in your books, draw three physical features.

You can use these pictures to help you.

How many do you need you to draw? Three, well done.

Pause the video and have a go at drawing three physical features.

Great, now this is a picture of Alaska, how beautiful is Alaska.

It looks a bit chilly there though doesn't it? 'Cause there's lots of snow on the mountains.

Now you can see a forest.

I can see what looks like a river, but it could be a lake.

It's more like a lake.

And there's the mountains, which are covered in snow and a valley below the mountains.

Then we've got Cornwall, wow Cornwall's also a really beautiful place.

I can see some forests, I can see lots of fields.

I can see a road as well.

What can you see? Some grass, can you see some hills in the background? You can, great.

Now, can you, going to test if you've been watching, which one is Alaska? Is it this one or the one on the other side? Okay, I'm not going to tell you the answer yet.

Which one is Cornwall? Can you see it, which one is Cornwall? Okay, you ready? So this one is Alaska.

And then on the other side, we have, Cornwall well done.

Here are some other physical features.

I'm going to read them from this side to this side and then do the next line across again.

So I'm going to read them, so you can look at the pictures or follow the words.

We've got hills, weather, seas, mountains, oceans cliff, then at the bottom, forest, vegetation, beach, rivers, valley, lakes.

So these are some other examples of physical features that you could find if you went to Alaska or Cornwall.

Now, remember that physical features are the natural areas of our land.

So someone didn't create the mountains.

Miss.

Harris, didn't put the mountain there just because I wanted it to look pretty.

These are natural areas that we have.

Now, what I want you to do, is I want you to talk to your screen.

You are going to say three physical features that you can see in Alaska.

You can look at this word map here to help you and see what you can find.

So I can see, so I'm going to tell my screen.

I can see mountains.

Can you see the mountains? So you can see I've looked here up to my word map and I can see that there are mountains.

In Alaska that are mountains.

Can you have a go at saying three physical features that you can see in Alaska? Pause the video and do that now.

Well done.

Now we're going do the same thing for Cornwall.

So look here at the physical features, the natural areas of our land.

And can you find three that you can see here in Cornwall? So I might use an example that I can see that there is a forest, I can see lots of trees.

Can you have a go at saying three? Pause the video and do that now.

Well done.

Now in your books, you are going to draw three physical features of Cornwall.

Now the way this is going to look, is can you see where I've written the word hills next to the picture? You can see the green hill.

In my book or on my piece of paper, I can draw a picture of the hill and write the word underneath.

You can look here at our word mat to help you draw the picture and write the word underneath.

So you need to do three of those.

So the physical features of Cornwall are and then you can draw three.

So I've done hills my first one.

Pause the video, have a go at that now.

Now as this is a different picture of Cornwall that we haven't seen before, maybe there are some different physical features than the ones that you said earlier.

So here are some of that I thought that I could see, I can see hills.

I can see cliffs.

I can see a beach and I can see the sea.

Maybe you drew those three into your book.

Okay, now we're going to do three more physical features, but this time of Alaska.

So we've got a different picture here of Alaska.

So you are going to draw three into your book.

So I got the picture of a forest here so I can draw some of the two trees and then write the word forest underneath.

How many do you need to do? Three, good, pause the video and try your best.

Now these are some that I would have drawn for those.

I can see a forest, lakes, mountains and a valley.

Did you have any of those? Great, now lastly, let's compare the physical features of Alaska and Cornwall.

Alaska has lots of mountains, whereas Cornwall has lots of hills.

Alaska has some valleys.

Whereas in these pictures you can see, Cornwall has some cliffs, the edge of the hill.

Can you see any other physical features that you can compare? So look at these two photos.

Does Alaska have a sea in this picture? No, it's a Lake or a river so you could compare the river to the sea, because Cornwall is on the coast, which is near the sea.

Can you think of a different one? So Alaska has, Cornwall has.

Well done, great job.

Now your brain is full of lots of knowledge about the physical features, it's time to do your end of lesson quiz where you can see if you can get all the questions right, do you think you could try it? Great, now if you would like to share your work with us, you can ask your parent or carer to take a picture of your work and you can share it on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter tagging Oak National and the hashtag #LearnwithOak.

Well done today, I'm really looking forward to seeing your work if you send it.

Have a great rest of your day, bye.