Lesson video

Hi, everyone and welcome to our first geography lesson.

My name is Miss Harris and I work at a school in west London called Reach Academy.

I currently teach year one.

So I'm really excited to also be teaching you in year one.

We are going to be doing geography today.

The units of work that we are studying in geography is called the seven continents.

You might know a little bit about what a continent is and if you do fantastic, you're going to be so prepared for today's lesson.

The lesson we're doing today is called what is a continent? Now because we're learning all about the continents, we need to go somewhere because we can't sit here.

You can see that I'm outside of aeroplane and we need to fly all the way into space so that we can look at earth and see all of the continents on our planet.

So what I want you to do is get your hands.

I want you to rub your hands together like this, and you're going to help transport me onto the plane behind me.

So rub your hands, rub them ready, steady, go.

Oh my goodness, it worked.

We are now on board, our plane ready to fly into space.

I want you now to get ready for today's lesson on board on aircraft.

So you are going to need your exercise book or a piece of paper.

You're going to need a pencil and you're going to need your brain.

Can you go and get those things now so that you're ready for today's lesson, pause the video and find those things.

Okay, welcome back.

Now that you're ready.

Miss Harris is going to be the pilot and fly us all the way into space.

So I'd like to sit nice and comfortably in your chair.

You might want to put your seat belt on for safety.

Can you do that now, put your seat belt on.

Make sure it clicks at the end.

You ready, great.

So now we are going to fly all the way into space to the moon.

But I need your help because Miss Harris can't fly this plane by herself.

Can you rub your hands together.

And can you help us get the flight all the way to the moon.

Ready, go.

Wow, you are amazing at helping me.

We are now on the moon looking at planet earth.

So we are now ready to start learning about the seven contents.

Now in today's lesson, we are going to have an introduction to geography and learn what a geographer is.

We are going to be analysing a world map.

We are going to be learning the seven continent names, and we're going to be learning what hemisphere is.

And lastly, we're going to look at ordering the continents in size, okay? So let's have a look at what a geographer is.

A geographer is a type of scientist who studies the earth, the land and the people.

So they study the earth, the land and the people.

Can you have a go at doing those actions? They studied the earth good, the land and the people great.

Now we do something me while I work, we do something while I teach.

We do something, my turn, your turn.

So I'm going to say it and then you're going to say it.

You might feel a bit silly saying it to your computer, but that's okay because I'm talking to my computer as well.

So you can say my turn, ready.

So I'm going to say geographer, your turn can you say geographer? Great, geographer, geographer, great.

Now that we're all geographers, we're ready to start today's lessons.

Were geography is a type of scientist who studies the earth, the land and the people.

They might look at things like rivers or mountains, or when they study people they might see how many people live in a certain place and why.

They might look at the earth like we are, 'cause we are going to be looking at the seven continents today.

So let's dive right in.

This is our 100% sheet.

A 100% sheet is all the knowledge that we are going to learn this time.

So we are going to learn all these facts about each continent.

We're going to learn what the word continent means.

We're going to be able to locate all of the continents on a map, and we're going to be able to tell someone how many people live in each continent, okay, great.

So today's lesson, I blanked out some of these because we are going to be learning the seven continent names, where they are on the map and what a continent is.

So a continent, can you say that word, continent, continent, great.

A continent is a very large area of land.

It's a? It's a very large area of land.

It's a, great.

Is usually surrounded by seeds and contains different countries.

Because a continent is a large area of land, it's got sea around the outside and it's got lots of different countries inside of it, okay? So we're going to look at that in more depth.

Now in geography, we do something called star words.

You might have already done these in maths.

So the way Miss Harris likes to do this is I'd like you to stand behind your chair and I'm likely to get your body.

So stand up as you stretch behind your chair.

Have you done that? Great, so you're going to copy me.

I'm going to say, and you're going to say.

So we'll be going to do our star word actions fast.

You ready, it has that list and say, star words can you say that, star words ready? Australia, Africa, South America, Asia, North America, Europe, Antarctica, Continent.

What is a continent? A continent is a very large area of land, great.

Now you might have been to one of these continents before, because we live in one of these continents.

We live in a continent called Europe.

Can you say that one again, Europe, Europe, great.

We're going to say this though as in fast now you ready? Australia, Africa, Asia, South America, North America, Continent, Antarctica, Europe.

Did you do that as quick as I did? That was quite quick.

Now sit back down, ready? You going to beat me.

I'm going to count down from three, ready.

Three, two, one, sit.

Did you beat me? Very fast.

Here is a picture of a map.

Now I've got this little ball to show you.

We're going to pretend that this is earth.

It's not, it's just a ball, but we're going to pretend this is earth.

Earth is a sphere shape like this, round shape like a ball.

When we look at earth on a map we flatten it down so we can see all of the continents and all of the countries.

So we can see all the land and all of the sea.

So we know we can compare where countries are in relation to one another.

So I can see that in the middle we've got this big area of land here and it's surrounded by sea.

I can see it's connected a little bit here, the land, whereas up here I can see that this continent has lots and lots of little islands around it, okay, great.

So you might know, already know where some continents are.

If you do, I'd like you to pause the video and tell the person next to you or tell your computer some names of some continents and where they are on a map, because you might know some already.

Have a go at doing that now.

Okay, great.

So let's have a look at the continents on a map.

Now here, I've got a colourful map.

I'm going to move myself up here So, here is a picture of another map.

We've got lots of colours to help us identify the different continents.

So here we've got the light green, which is North America.

Then down here we've got South America, can you say that, South America, great.

Then we've got Antarctica, the blue one at the bottom.

We've got Australia, which is this purply pink colour.

We've got Africa, which is the yellow colour, Europe, which is red and Asia, which is orange.

Now I'm going to say a continent and on your tablet or your computer wherever you're watching this video, I want you to point to find that continent, you ready? Get your finger ready.

So you're going to see if you could beat me.

I'm going to say the continent you're going to point to that ready? Africa, did you point to the middle one? You are very quick.

Finger ready, Antarctica.

Is at the bottom, great.

Ready that's another, Australia I can't find it, where is it? It's the pink one, great.

But even do another one, Europe.

It's at the top of the on, great.

Did you beat me? I'm sure you did, you're very fast.

Ready, do one more finger ready.

North America is the light green one.

Did you do? You were just incredible.

So, now we know where they are on a map.

Take a good look, try and remember.

So North America is at the top, South America at the bottom and Antarctica is at the bottom of the map.

Australia is is the one on this side, the pinky colour.

Asia is this huge continent up here, the big orange one.

And Europe, I can see here, the United Kingdom that's where we live.

So I can remember that Europe is at the top.

And I can see here this country here is called Italy it looks like a little boat I don't know if you can see that too.

Let's do one more see if you beat me.

Can you find South America, ready, go.

It's the dark green one, well done.

So now when you come on your paper, I'd like you to have a go at this challenge.

Can you write down the numbers in your book and try and write down the names of each continent and put them in the right place.

So let's do the first one together.

Number one, shows me the continent of North America.

Can you have a go in your book and write in the numbers and writing the name of each continent that the line is pointing to.

So this one here the line is pointing here to North America.

The words are down the side here to help you with your spelling.

So pause the video and have a go at that now.

Great, well done.

So I'd like you now to get a coloured pencil or a felt pen, something colourful so that you can tick your work off.

I've got a darker pen.

So can you find something different? You might need to pause the video to go and grab that.

So make sure you pause it before you go.

And if you've already got one, you're ready.

So pen on your hand, so not your pencil now, a different colour.

You are going to do something good check, knocking your work.

So we're going to check on your work and make sure it's right.

You are going to either tick it or fix it.

If you fix it it's because you've got it wrong and you're going to write the correct answer, okay? So number one says North America, everyone should have got that right.

So give yourself a tick next to the word North America in your book.

Now tick South America for number two and if you didn't get that right, you can write the words, South America.

If I'm going too fast you can pause the video and write that down because I'm going to go through the next one now.

Number three is Europe, give yourself a tick or fix it if you've got it wrong.

Number four is Africa give yourself a tick or fix if you got that wrong.

Number five is Antarctica, give yourself a tick or fix it if you've got it wrong.

Number six is Asia, that's a huge continent the biggest continent.

Gives yourself a tick if you got that right or I'll fix it if you got it wrong.

And lastly, number seven is Australia, give yourself a tick or fix it if you got it wrong.

Now don't worry if you got some of them wrong, this is the first time we're learning all of these continents so give yourself a big pat on the back for trying really hard.

You have endeavoured that to try your best.

And that's all we can ask for.

Let's move on to the next one now.

So here we have got another picture of a map, but you can see here that there are different colours, each continent, but they're all in the same place because maps have different representations.

Sometimes they have colours or sometimes they're just blank.

So for example, here we go a blank map.

So we don't have any colour we just got the blue and a white.

But on our next one we've got lots of colours to help us see the continents.

Can you see that big red line down the middle, you can.

Now that's called the equator.

Can you say that with me, equator, equator, great.

Now the equator is an imaginary line that goes all the way around the earth.

It's a what, can you say that it's an imaginary line all the way around the earth.

It's an? That goes all the way around the earth, great.

So an imaginary line that goes around the earth.

So I'm going to show you a picture now of my earth.

So this is my pretender earth.

It's just a ball, but we're going to pretend that it's my earth.

So here, I put a red line that goes all the way around my earth.

Can you see that? That represents my equator.

Now the equator goes round the middle of the earth.

If I was to chop earth in half, I would have a part at the top and a part at the bottom.

Now the equator goes around the middle here.

It's an imaginary line.

There isn't actually a line on the ground that goes here across Africa.

It's just an imaginary line that we put straight down the middle of our earth here.

Now, the equator with our imaginary line that means that there were two parts.

We've got this top part, which is called Northern Hemisphere.

It's called the Northern Hemisphere.

Say it again, Northern Hemisphere.

It's a hemisphere.

So this part is the Northern part.

And this part is called the Southern Hemisphere.

It's called the, great.

So the Southern Hemisphere is at the bottom and the Northern Hemisphere is at the top.

Now the really exciting thing about the equator, the imaginary line here, is that the equator, the red line, the imaginary line, the closer you live to the equator the hotter it is where you live.

If you live in a country that is close to the equator it's really warmer and it's probably really hot.

There might be some deserts or you might have really, really hot weather.

Maybe there's a rain forest there, there is lots of countries that live near the equator.

Now the closer you live to the equator the hotter it is, but the further away from the equator the colder it is.

So the easy way to remember this is that the bottom of earth we have Antarctica, which is one of the continents you can see here on our map.

Antarctica is the white part.

Is white because it's covered with snow.

Antarctica is at the bottom.

Now the Arctic is the top.

So we've got Arctic and Antarctica.

They are the coldest parts on our planet and they're at the top and other bottom.

They are the furthest away from our equator.

The equator is an imaginary line.

It's really important.

We know what an equator is, the imaginary line around our earth because we can often see it on our maps and it helps us locate different continents around the map, around the earth.

So here, which continent is this? This is Africa great, Africa.

You can see the equator go straight through Africa.

So all these people that live around the imaginary line remember it's not actually there, but I'm sure those people that it's really hot there.

So they live just around the equator.

In Africa it goes straight through the middle.

Now in your books, I'd like to write the name for the imaginary line that goes through the earth.

So what is the imaginary line around the earth called? Can you write that on your books, right.

To number two, I'm writing the answer.

Ready, pause the video, go.

Okay, so let's see.

Get your coloured pencil or pen or felt pen again.

Ready, you're going to tick it.

You should have wrote that the imaginary line around the earth is called the equator.

Did you write that down? You did, fantastic.

Give yourself a tick.

And if you didn't, don't worry you can just spell it you can write it correctly.

Okay, great.

Now here, we've got another map.

Now you can see here I have got a little magnifying glass because your task now is to name two continents in the Northern Hemisphere.

So remember the Northern Hemisphere is at the top here.

So the top part.

So on my map, it's the top part.

So you can see my equator here, this grey line.

At the top here, there are some continents.

Can you write down two continents that are in the Northern Hemisphere? So on top of the line, can you write two continents.

So in your book write the number, number three and write two continents that are in the Northern Hemisphere.

Pause the video and have a go at that now.

Okay, great job.

Let's see which ones you wrote down.

So you could have said, North America, Europe or Asia.

Give yourself a tick if you wrote two of those.

You might have written all three and challenged yourself, so give yourself a tick.

If you didn't get that right, you can write down North America, Europe, or Asia.

Write down two of those.

Now I'm sure you can guess what the next question is.

You are now going to write two continents that are in the Southern Hemisphere.

So at the bottom of the maps.

So here look our earth, let's start at the bottom part.

So can you write two continents in the Southern Hemisphere.

Write that, pause the video and write that down now.

Okay, so let's have a look.

So you might have said South America, you might have said Australia, and you might have said Antarctica.

The majority, means the most of South America is in the Southern Hemisphere, great job.

So let's have a look.

The next question you are going to write which continents are in both hemispheres.

So if we go back to our earth, if they're in both hemispheres that means the line goes straight through the continent.

So we already know from how I've been saying it before that Africa goes.

So what you are going to do now is you are going to write two continent, write down the continent, which isn't both hemispheres.

So if we go back to our earth, remember that the equator goes through the middle.

So if the equator goes through the continent, that means it's in both hemispheres.

So we know from Miss Harris saying it before, that Africa, we can see that the equator line goes through Africa.

So it's in the Northern Hemisphere and in the Southern Hemisphere.

Can you write down which continents are in both hemispheres? Write number five, write down the number five and then write down which continents are in both hemispheres.

Pause the video and do that now.

Great, well done.

Let's have a look.

So you could have said South America, you could have said Asia, and you could have said Africa.

Because you can see here that some parts of Asia only a tiny parts of Asia goes into the Southern Hemisphere.

Well done.

Give yourself a tick in your book if you got that one right.

Great, okay.

So we're going to look at the different places that you could live.

Because a continent is a pretty big place.

But we're going to compare it to other places that we could live.

Because it's quite hard to understand how big something is, because you might think that London is a big place, but there are even bigger places than that.

So we got to start here by talking about a village.

Now the village you can see in this picture is a really old place, some really small place.

There's often maybe one school and maybe one post office, maybe one shop, not many people live in a village is often quite old buildings, beautiful buildings.

And then it's quite often the countryside.

So it's surrounded by lots of nature, lots of fields.

So a village is the smallest place to live.

We've got a world map.

This world map shows us all the countries.

So a country is a big place to live.

It's not the biggest place to live, but it's a big place to live.

We've then got something called counties.

Now in England, we divide all of the landfill, either see on this picture here, that the land is split into lots of different places.

The land is split into different places to help us locate different areas of the land.

So for example, there is a county called Kent.

Now that's a county in England and it helps us identify where it is on a map.

We've just divided the land into different places.

Now a county is bigger than a village but smaller than a country.

Then we've got the whole earth, the planet earth.

behind me, the same one.

planet earth is the biggest place that you could live.

It contains everything and everyone inside it.

Then we've got somewhere called a city.

Now this is a picture of the City of London.

A city is a big place to live.

In London, we have 9 million people that live there.

That's a lot of people that live in the city.

Live, work and travel into the City of London.

Now a city is bigger than a village, but it's smaller than a county, a country and it's definitely smaller than the earth.

Then here we've got a continent, which is what we're learning about.

A continent is a very large area of land.

So can you think already which one a continent is bigger than.

Is a continent bigger than a city? Have a thing, is it, yes or no? It is, you're right.

Is a continent bigger than a village? Yes, because it's a very large area of land.

Is a continent bigger than a country? Yes, because a continent is a large area of land.

You can see here, the red Africa here.

And on this map you can see Africa and all the countries, all these countries are inside the continent.

They're all on the same piece of land.

So continent is bigger than a country.

And lastly, we've got a town.

Now a town is a place like you could have, am trying to think of a town in my head.

Don't see, got maybe a town called Teddington is a town in London.

Or you could have a town, I know a town in Bedfordshire, which is called Wooten, that's a town.

You might be able to name your town that you live in.

So there are lots of towns or maybe a town called Richmond.

I'm trying to think of other ones I can think of the top of my head.

So a town is bigger than a village.

It's bigger, it's smaller than a city.

It's smaller than a country, smaller than a continent and smaller than the world and the earth.

I will let you now to put these in order from the smallest to the largest.

All the names are here down the side.

Can you put them in order to a county, a town, a village, a continent, the world, a city and a country.

Can you put them in order from smallest to largest.

Pause the video and have a go writing those numbers down in your book now.

Great, well done.

So here, we've got a little brain here with some cooks inside 'cause we're using our brain to think really carefully about this question.

We're going to go through the answers now.

So get your coloured pencil and tick or fix.

So the first one is village.

Village is a smallest place to live.

Number two, the town, that's the next biggest place to live.

Then we got to city, which is bigger than a town and a village.

We've got a county, then we've got a country, then we've got a continent, and lastly we have got the world which is that biggest place to live.

Give yourself a tick next to those ones.

Check that you've got them right.

If not put them in the right order from smallest to largest.

Pause the video and check your answers now.

Okay, well done.

Now this is our continent.

This is the maps of all of the continents.

I'm going to say a continent now, and I'd like you to point to the correct continent.

You ready? I'm going to say continent you're going to point to it.

Africa, good Africa is a yellow one here.

Antarctica good Antarctica is the button and lastly Asia, good.

Asia is the yellow one, sorry the orange one.

So now Asia is the largest continent.

You can see here the orange one is the largest continent.

The next one is that Asia is the largest.

Then we've got Africa as the second largest continent.

After Africa, we've got North America, which is a really big continent.

Then we've got South America.

So I've got Asia is the largest, Africa, North America South America then the Antarctica, Europe, and lastly, the smallest continent is Australia.

The largest continent is Asia and the smallest continent is Australia.

So we've got Asia, Africa, South America, sorry, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe and then Australia which is the smallest.

In your books can you write down the name of the largest continent and the name of smallest continent, right.

Number seven in your book, have a look, which is the largest one and which is the smallest.

Okay, so the largest is Asia, give yourself a tick in your coloured pencil, well done and the smallest is Australia give a tick in your book or check it if you've got it wrong.

Fantastic, I really enjoyed teaching you your first geography lesson.

You can now complete your end of lesson quiz on Google Forums. It will come up after this video.

I've really enjoyed teaching you and I hope you have a lovely rest of your day, bye.