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Hello, my name is Ms. Trorek Jan.
I'm so excited to be learning with you today.
I'll be helping you with your geography lesson.
We are going to have such a great time learning together in this lesson.
Let's start our learning journey.
Welcome to today's lesson from our unit on Land Use: how diverse are local and UK landscapes? This lesson is called different types of land use in the UK.
You'll be learning to describe the different types of land use in the UK.
Some of the learning is brand new, but I am here to help you.
This links back to previous learning you might have done, learning about land use in the locality and some learning on farming.
I'm really excited to get started, I hope you are too.
The key words we'll be using today are livestock, land use habitat, wildlife and agriculture.
Let's do my turn, your turn.
Livestock.
Livestock.
Land use.
Land use.
Habitat.
Habitat.
Wildlife.
Wildlife.
Agriculture, agriculture.
Well done.
I want you to be using these keywords, throughout our lesson as well.
Let's think in more detail about what our keywords mean.
Here are the definitions of our keywords.
Livestock means that animals, not the birds, that are farmed.
Land use is the function or purpose of a particular area.
Habitat is the natural home or environment of an animal, plant or other organism.
Wildlife refers to all living things that live in their natural habitat without human involvement and agriculture is the science and practise of cultivating soil and farming.
These are the learning cycles that we'll be completing and working through together in today's lesson.
First, we'll be learning about the types of land use, across the UK.
Then we'll be thinking about how much land is used for each type.
Are you ready to start your learning today? Fantastic, let's begin.
You might have previously learnt about types of land use.
Can you remember any of them? You can use these images to help you.
Pause the video and have a think, pair and share discussion.
Good job.
Did you remember agricultural, residential, commercial, industrial transport and woodland? Well done, if you got them right, you can give yourselves a thumbs up.
Today we're going to look at the land use of the UK as a whole and find out which type we have most of and which land type we have the least of.
You might have completed some learning on types of farming in the UK.
There are three main types of agriculture; arable, livestock and mixed farming.
To raise livestock like cows on a dairy farm, land is needed to grow grass for the cows to eat.
We call this land pasture.
So, sheep farms and dairy farms would both be classed as using pasture in terms of land use.
Arable land is different because farmers plant crops to grow and harvest.
Crops like wheat, barley and oil seed.
Did you know that 40% of crops grown in the UK are used for animal feed? Arable land is mainly found in the east and south of the UK where the land is flatter and there's less rainfall.
Let's have a check here.
Which image shows land being used for pasture? Is it image A, B, or C? Pause the video now and answer this question.
Did you say C? That's right, well done.
Give yourselves a thumbs up.
Woodland can either be coniferous, which are evergreen trees or deciduous trees.
Trees that shed their leaves in the autumn.
Bogs or peatlands form in wept and water logged conditions, the fresh water stops dead plants from fully rotting away and over thousands of years, this process forms a peat bog.
In the UK, they're commonly found in upland areas with high rainfall and poor drainage.
That means that when it rains, the water does not drain away and instead creates a wetland.
Artificial means not naturally found.
We could call concrete and tarmac artificial.
In this lesson we're going to group all of the land types which are built on artificial surfaces together.
That includes all buildings, roads and airports.
Moorland is characterised by beautiful purple colour of heather and low-growing shrubs.
Have you ever seen any moorland or heathland before? Moorland and heathland cover large areas of higher land in the UK.
In fact, there is more heather moorland on the isles of Britain and Ireland than anywhere else in the world.
Let's have a check here.
Which of these types of land use are not commonly found in the uplands of the UK? A, moorland and heathland.
B, arable or C, peat bogs.
Pause the video now and answer this question.
Did you answer B, arable? That's right.
This land needs to be flat, so that heavy machinery can drive across it.
Well done.
It's now time for our first task.
Have a look at the four types of land use we can see in these photographs.
Label each type of land use and describe where it is commonly found.
Pause the video now and complete task A.
How did you get on? Here are my answers to task A.
For picture one, I've said moorland and heathland are found in the uplands of the UK.
For picture two, I've said peat bogs are found in the waterlogged uplands of the UK.
For picture three, arable land is commonly found in the south and east of the UK where the land is flat and there is less rainfall.
And for the final picture, pasture can be usually found in the uplands of the UK.
Good job.
Give yourselves a thumbs up.
Well done.
Let's continue with our learning.
So, now we are going to think about how much land is used for each type of land use in the UK.
We can classify our land use into seven types, arable, pasture, peat bogs, moorland and heathland, woodland, artificial surfaces and other, which could contain things like natural grassland, salt marshes, and bodies of water like rivers and lakes.
Do you think the UK is made up of an equal share of each type of land use? Pause the video and discuss this as a class.
Great.
I'm sure you had a really good discussion and we're going to learn more about that, later in the lesson.
Try to imagine the land on the whole of the UK.
Think about what the land might be used for in all the places across the United Kingdom.
In this check we're going to predict exactly how much of the UK you think will be covered by each type of land use.
The total area of the UK is equal to 250,000 kilometres squared.
One cube is approximately 25,000 kilometres squared, so that means that a hundred cubes, equals the total area of the UK.
Use your hundred cubes to predict how much of the land is used by each type of land use.
Remember, the seven types of land use we have are arable, pasture, peat bogs, moorland and heathland, woodland, artificial surfaces and others, things like natural grassland, salt marshes, and bodies of water like lakes and rivers.
Pause the video now and complete this activity.
How did you get on? Did you use your a hundred cubes to predict how much of the land is used by each type of land use? Which type of land use did you predict would be the largest? Which did you predict would be the smallest? Pause the video now and have this discussion with your class.
Compare your ideas and see if you guessed the same or if you guessed differently.
I'm sure you had a really great discussion.
Here are the actual percentages of land use by type in the UK.
28% or 28 of your cubes were used for pasture.
That is grazing livestock.
This is more than one quarter of all of the land in the UK.
27% of the UK is arable farming.
Remember that almost half of that land is used for crops to feed animals, so only just over half is for humans to eat.
10% of the UK is woodland.
Another 10% is all other land use types, including 6% natural grassland and water bodies.
9% is artificial surfaces, which includes 5% that are homes and gardens.
Peat bogs makes up 9% of land use and 7% was moorland and heathland.
Is this what you expected? Do these match your predictions? Can you use this information to answer these questions? What is the main type of land use in the UK and how much land use is used for agriculture altogether? Pause the video now and answer this question.
How did you get on? Did you answer that pasture as the main use of land in the UK? And did you work out that 55 cubes or 55% of land use in the UK is agriculture? Our land use cubes show how much land is being used for humans and how much is being used for nature.
Is there enough land for habitats and wildlife in the UK? Have we got the balance of land use right? What do you think? Have a think, pair and share discussion with your class.
Pause the video now.
Do you think other people in your school, could correctly predict how the UK's land is used? How can we present this information so it is clear and easy to understand? We can present these land use facts, like the pupils have here, so that our community will have a better understanding.
One pupil thinks we could graph the information, so it's easy to understand.
Another pupil thinks maybe we could use a hundred square to show how much of the UK is taken up by each type of land use.
What do you think? I think that this will be a good activity for task B.
For task B, you have to present the land use of UK on a hundred square grid like this.
Firstly, colour the key using different colours for each type of land use.
Remember, each square on the grid is 1% of the total land of the UK, just like one of the cubes that you used earlier.
That's 25,000 kilometres square, so it's not a small area of land.
In fact, it's almost 4,000 football pitches big.
Use the information in this table to complete the hundred square grid.
For example, if woodland makes up 10% of the total land use in the UK, then we would need to colour in 10 squares on the grid.
You don't need to colour them in any particular colour, order or pattern, just as long as the total number of squares are correct for each land use type.
Pause the video and complete task B.
How did you get on? You can see in my answer to task B that I've used information from the table to colour in the number of squares on my a hundred square and I've used the same colour on the key to show which one it is.
For example, I've picked green to represent woodland, so I've coloured in 10 green squares.
You may have used different colours on your key, but the number of squares should be the same, so you should have coloured in 28 squares for pasture.
27 squares for arable, 10 squares for woodland, 10 squares for other, nine squares for artificial surfaces, nine squares for peat bogs and seven squares for moorland and heathland and all of that together should equal a hundred squares or a hundred percent of land use in the UK.
Our grid shows clearly how much of the UK is used for agriculture and what a relatively small proportion is used for woodland.
What does this tell us about the diversity of the UK landscapes? Have a think with your peers and your classmates and discuss that.
Pause the video now.
Well done for completing your discussions and learning today.
You've had a really good think about the amount of UK that is used for agriculture and human activity and how much is used for wildlife.
Let's go through a summary of the learning that we've completed together today.
Artificial surfaces take up 9% or just nine out of our a hundred squares.
Woods make up just 10% or 10 of our a hundred squares.
27% or 27 squares out of the a hundred are used for crops and remember that half of this is used to feed animals.
More than a quarter of the land in the UK, that's 27% or 27 out of the hundred squares is used for pasture and for livestock.
There's been lots to think about today and you've worked really, really hard.
You've been fantastic with your learning.
Give yourselves one last thumbs up.
Well done for joining me today and for sharing your learning with me.
See you next time for more geography lessons soon.
Bye.
