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Hello, my name is Ms Cherek Jan.

You've made a great choice to learn geography with me today.

I will be guiding you through our lesson.

We're going to have such a great time learning together.

Let's get started.

Welcome to today's lesson on our unit, UK regions, why is the Lake District a National Park? Today's lesson is called Introducing the Lake District.

You'll be learning to locate the Lake District and identify its human and physical features using geographical language and maps.

Some of this learning is brand new, but I am here to help you.

This links back to previous learning you might have done on human and physical features around the UK, and locating and labelling our National Parks on a map.

Here are the key words that we'll be working through together today.

Before we learn about what they mean, let's practise saying them together.

World Heritage Site, World Heritage Site.

National Park, National Park.

Lake, lake.

Region, region.

Mountain, mountain.

Good job practising saying those words everyone.

Let's go through what they mean together.

World Heritage Site, World Heritage Sites are places on Earth that are of outstanding value to humanity, and are listed to be protected for future generations to enjoy.

National Park, a National Park is a large area of land protected by law to keep the natural environment safe.

Lake, a lake is a large area of water surrounded by land.

Region, a region is a part of a country or the world.

Mountain, a mountain is a natural raised part of the Earth's surface that is higher than a hill.

Good job everyone, we're going to be using these keywords throughout our lesson.

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

First, we'll be looking at where the Lake District is, and then we'll be thinking about how can we locate its special places.

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

There are 15 National Parks in the UK, and each one is a protected landscape because of its special qualities.

If you remember, there are 10 in England, three in Wales, and two in Scotland.

Pause the video now and read through where each of those National Parks are.

Remember that there aren't any National Parks in Northern Ireland, so this is just a map of Great Britain.

Pause the video now and go through each of those National Parks with your partner.

How did you get on? Have you correctly managed to label all 15 National Parks? Did you remember them from our previous lesson? Good job, let's check our map by reading each National Park together, starting in the north and working our way south.

Remember that there are two Scottish National Parks.

So right at the top of the UK, in Scotland, is the largest National Park, the Cairngorms. Our second Scottish National Park is Loch Lomond and The Trossachs.

Well done if you located those Scottish National Parks correctly.

Now, coming down into England, remember there are 10 National Parks in England.

We have Northumberland, which is at the top of England.

Then, it's followed by the Lake District, then, the North York Moors, and the Yorkshire Dales, and as we move into the middle of England we have the Peak District, The Broads, and then along the South Coast we have the South Downs, New Forest, Dartmoor and Exmoor.

So well done if you located those 10 National Parks of England correctly, and did you remember that we have three National Parks in Wales, so let's move over into Wales and see if you located and remembered the names of those correctly.

First, we have Eryri, which is Snowdonia.

Then we have Pembrokeshire Coast, and finally we have Bannau Brycheiniog, which is also known as the Brecon Beacons.

So well done if you located and you remembered all 15 of those National Parks correctly.

And remember, even though we're talking about National Parks in the UK, this is just a map of Great Britain because there are no National Parks in Northern Ireland.

Good job everyone, I'm sure that you were able to remember those names and locations of each of the National Parks in the UK, good job.

The Lake District is a region of mountains and lakes in the northwest of England.

It is a National Park.

I wonder how many of you have visited the Lake District before.

Put up your hands if you visited the Lake District.

Great, I'm sure some of you have visited, and if you haven't visited, it's a fantastic place to go, so hopefully this lesson will inspire you to visit it.

As I mentioned, it's located in the northwest of England, and most of it is a National Park.

You can see it here on our map.

In addition to the Lake District being a National Park, it has also been recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, just like the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon, and Machu Picchu.

All of those places are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

That means that it's not just an area of national importance, it means that it's also an area of international importance, and that means it's protected by international agreements.

So let's have a quick check here.

Where in England is the Lake District? Is it in A ,the northeast, B, the southeast, C, the northwest, or D, the southwest? Pause the video and answer this check.

How did you get on? Did you say C, northwest? That's correct, well done.

You can give yourselves a thumbs up.

Fantastic learning so far, let's continue with our lesson.

It's now time for Task A.

What I would like you to do is to locate and shade the Lake District National Park on this map, and then complete the sentence.

The Lake District is in the, of England.

Pause the video and complete Task A.

How did you get on with that task? Did you correctly locate the Lake District National Park on your map? Remember that the Lake District is in the northwest of England, so you can see there on my map that I've coloured it in a light green shade.

I hope you've coloured the same area as well.

I filled in the sentence, and I've written the Lake District is in the northwest of England.

Good job everybody, well done if you got that right, you can give yourselves another thumbs up.

Let's continue with our learning now.

Now we know where the Lake District is, we're going to focus on how we can locate its special places.

We're going to identify the Lake District's key human and physical features.

These are its special qualities.

Do you remember what the difference is between human and physical features? Pause the video and discuss this as a think pair and share activity.

Great, how did you get on? Did you say that a human feature is something that humans have made or built? And did you say that a physical feature is natural and has not been formed or made by humans? That's great, well done, fantastic learning so far.

We said earlier that National Parks are nationally protected landscapes because of their special qualities, but what are the Lake District's special qualities? Let's investigate these together.

Let's look first at the amazing, physical features of the Lake District.

We've already mentioned that the Lake District is a region of mountains and lakes, but did you know that the Lake District National Park has all the land in England above 910 metres, including the highest mountain in England, which is called Scafell Pike? This is a picture of Scafell Pike.

Look at the view from the top, that is breathtaking, and I'm sure standing there would make you feel lots of different emotions like awe and wonder, and you might also feel that connectedness to nature as well.

There are lots of mountains in the Lake District, but Scafell Pike and Helvellyn are the two highest.

Scafell Pike stands at 978 metres above sea level, and Helvellyn at 950 metres.

On this map, mountains are represented by a brown triangle.

Can you spot where Scafell Pike and Helvellyn are? Pause the video and locate these two places on the map.

How did you get on? Did you locate those two mountains? Let's see if we can spot them together.

Here they are, there's Scafell Pike and there's Helvellyn.

Good job if you located them both correctly.

Now that we've looked at mountains, let's find out about the Lake District's other special quality, it's lakes.

There are actually 16 bodies of water in the National Park, but two of them hold special importance as they are the deepest and the longest in England.

On the map, lakes are represented as blue bodies of water.

When you think of a lake, you might expect them to be round, but lakes in the Lake District are long and thin like ribbons.

Can you find Lake Windermere and Wast Water on the map? Pause the video and see if you can locate those two places.

How did you get on locating those two places? Here they are, and there's Wast Water and there's Windermere.

Let's find out about these two lakes.

Windermere is 10.

5 miles long.

That's over 18 kilometres in length.

That makes it the longest lake in England.

And Wast Water lies to the west of the National Park, and is 79 metres at its deepest point.

So that makes Wast Water the deepest lake in England.

Did you know, only one of the region's lakes, Bassenthwaite Lake, is actually called a lake? All others are called meres or waters.

That's a really interesting fact.

Thank you for sharing that with us, Sam.

So that means that only one out of those 16 bodies of waters in the Lake District is actually officially a lake.

Fantastic learning, let's carry on with our lesson.

It's now time for a quick check.

Windermere is one of the Lake District's special qualities, why? Is it A, because it is the deepest lake in England? B, it is the highest mountain in England? Or C, it is the longest lake in England? Pause the video and complete that check.

How did you get on? Did you say C? That's correct, so Lake Windermere is one of the Lake Districts special qualities because it is the longest lake in England.

Good job everyone.

Now let's turn to human features of the National Park.

There are no cities inside the Lake District National Park, although, most of the land is underdeveloped, there are still many towns and villages within the National Park boundary.

This photograph is of Keswick.

Keswick is the largest town in the Lake District.

Can you see Keswick on our map? Pause the video and see if you can locate Keswick.

How did you get on? Did you locate Keswick? There it is.

Settlements are labelled and larger settlements like Keswick are marked with a yellow circle.

The size of the circle tells us about the size of the settlement.

Keswick is up in the north of the park.

There are a number of small towns inside the Lake District National Park including Keswick, Ambleside and Windermere.

Pause the video and see if you can locate those places.

We've already located Keswick, so see if you can find Ambleside and Windermere.

Pause the video now.

How did you get on? Did you spot Windermere? There it is.

And what about Ambleside? Did you spot that one? Good job.

Can you see that the yellow circle of Windermere is actually bigger than Ambleside? That shows you that Windermere and Keswick are larger settlements than Ambleside.

Ambleside and Windermere are located in the centre, and over to the southeast of the National Park.

Well done for locating all of those settlements.

To help us locate features on our map of the Lake District National Park, we can use four figure grid references.

Imagine we're trying to locate the village town of Bassenthwaite.

How can we find where it is? There it is in our map.

Let's see if we can work out what the four figure grid reference is.

To find the number of the grid square we want to locate, we look at the bottom left corner of that square.

So you can see there that it's represented with that arrow.

So once we've located that box, we go east along the corridor, and we stop at the number that's in line with that box that we want to locate.

There we go, so we can see that the first number we're going to record is 32.

Then, we go north up the stairs, and we go all the way up to the number that is in line with the box that we want to locate.

So that number is 53.

So you can see there that the box that we want to locate falls exactly between those two numbers.

So what we do, is we put these numbers together, and we create a four figure group reference.

So the four figure grid reference for this box would be 3253, and that's helped us to locate that place.

It's now time to have a check.

What I'd like you to do is to use the map to locate Thirlmere, a reservoir in the Lake District.

What is the four figure grid reference of Thirlmere? Pause the video and work that out.

How did you get on? Did you remember to look at the bottom left corner of the box that you wanted to locate? And then did you remember to go along the corridor first to find number 33, which is our first number? Then, did you remember to go up the stairs to find the bottom of the square with Thirlmere in it? That would've been number 51.

So if we put those two numbers together, we can see that the box that falls exactly between those two numbers, is the box that contains Thirlmere inside it, and the grid reference for that box would be 3351.

Did you get that right? Good job everyone, let's continue with our learning.

It's now time for Task B.

For your final task of today, I would like you to identify the grid references for seven features of the Lake District.

I'd like you to locate both physical features and human features.

The physical features that I would like you to locate are divided into mountains and lakes.

I'd like you to find the four figure grid reference for Scafell Pike, for Helvellyn, Wast Water and Windermere.

So those were the mountains and the lakes.

And then I'd also like you to locate the grid references for the settlements, Keswick, Windermere, and Ambleside.

Remember that lakes may run over more than one grid reference square, so you will need to write down more than one grid reference square.

For the towns, remember to look for the position of the yellow circles.

You need to look at the bottom left corner of the box you want to locate, and then you need to go along the corridor first, and then up the stairs.

Once you put those two numbers together, you've created the four figure grid reference.

Pause the video and complete Task B.

How did you get on everyone? Did you remember to use that map for clues? We talked about the brown triangles representing the mountains, and the yellow dots representing the settlements.

And remember that the size of the yellow dot depends on how big that settlement is.

Great, how did you get on locating all of those features? Were you able to find the four figure grid references and write them down correctly? Great, let's go through the answers together.

So for the mountains, the grid reference for Scafell Pike was 3250, and the grid reference for Helvellyn was 3351.

Good job if you got those right.

Moving onto the lakes, the grid reference for Wast Water was 3150.

Remember I said that for some lakes they might be quite long, like Lake Windermere, so it went over quite a few grid squares.

I hope you wrote down all three of these grid references, 3350, 3349, and 3348 for Windermere.

And then moving on to the settlements, for Keswick, did you write 3252? For Windermere, did you write 3449? And for Ambleside, you should've written 3350.

Good job everyone, well done geographers.

You've done some brilliant learning today.

I hope you enjoyed finding out all about the Lake District National Park, and exploring its physical and human features, and locating those different features using the four figure grid references.

Well done if you got that right, good job, everyone.

That was tricky learning, but you worked through it so well.

You can give yourself a thumbs up.

You've been fantastic today.

You've done some brilliant geography, finding out about the human and physical features of the Lake District.

I hope you enjoyed learning and finding out all about the Lake District National Park.

We've now come to the end of our lesson, so let's go through a quick summary of all of the learning that we've completed together today.

The Lake District is a region of mountains and lakes in the northwest of England.

Most of it is a National Park.

The National Park has all the land in England above 910 metres, including the highest mountain in England, called Scafell Pike.

Wast Water, the deepest lake in England, and Windermere, the longest lake in England, are found here.

There are no cities in the Lake District.

Keswick is the largest town.

Good job everyone, you've been brilliant today.

Thank you for joining me and for sharing your learning with me.

I'll see you soon for more geography lessons, goodbye.