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Hello, my name is Ms. Jarekjan.
I'm so excited to be learning with you today.
I will be guiding you through our lesson.
We are going to have a great time learning together today.
Let's start our learning.
Welcome to today's lesson on UK regions: why is the Lake District a national park? This lesson is called working in the Lake District.
You will be describing the Lake District and how the landscape is used by the people who work and visit there.
Some of this learning is brand new, but I am here to help you.
This links back to previous learning you might have done, locating national parks on a map, exploring physical and human landscapes of the Lake District, as well as the weather and climate of the Lake District.
Here are the key words that we'll be using together in today's lesson.
Before we look at their definitions, let's practise saying them together.
Common land.
Common land.
Tradition.
Tradition.
Economy.
Economy.
Tourism.
Tourism.
Quarrying.
Quarrying.
Good job everyone.
Well done for saying those keywords.
Let's go through their definitions and find out what they mean.
Common land.
Common land is land where people have shared rights for the grazing of livestock.
Tradition.
Tradition is something that has been done the same way for a long time.
Economy.
The economy is the way money in a particular area is made and spent.
Tourism.
Tourism means people travelling to a different place from where they live for a holiday.
Quarrying.
Quarrying is digging things like rock or sand out of the ground for use.
Well done everyone.
We are going to be using these keywords together throughout our lesson.
In the first part, we'll look at how the landscape is used by local people, and then in the second part of the lesson, we will compare that with how the landscape is used by visitors to the region.
We already know that the Lake District is a region of national and international importance, so it's no surprise that people come from all over the world to visit this beautiful landscape.
Are you ready to start your learning for today? Fantastic.
Let's begin.
Let's start today by looking at who lives in the Lake District, and how they use the landscape to live and earn a living.
In 2021, 39,000 people lived in the Lake District National Park.
Some people lived in towns like Keswick, Ambleside, or Windermere, while others live in more rural areas.
Many local people earn a living that is linked to the of the National Park.
We've learned a lot about the Lake District so far, but not so much about why it is a national park.
The Lake District is a region of national and international importance because of its special qualities, <v ->So it's no surprise that people</v> from all over the world come to visit this beautiful landscape.
They are called tourists.
And many local people earn a living from the money that these tourists bring into the economy.
I'm sure lots of you have visited other places and have been tourists exploring other beautiful areas.
Some of you might have also visited the Lake District as well.
Tourism is the main source of income for the Lake District economy.
Tourism brings in great benefits to the areas.
Visitors spend money on accommodation, food, drink, and leisure activities, and indirectly support other businesses such as wholesalers and the building trade.
So as you can see, tourism is very important to the local economy of the region, providing employment and supporting services in local communities.
My mom works in a hotel looking after tourists.
15,000 local people work in tourism.
In 2022, there were 18.
14 million tourists to the Lake District.
Do you remember how many people I said lived in the Lake District? Pause the video now and see if you can remember.
That's right.
Only 39,000 people live there, and 15,000 of those work in tourism.
That's about 38% of all people living in the Lake District who work in tourism.
That's a really high number.
There are so many jobs that local people do to support the tourist industry here, especially as we said there were 18.
14 million tourists to the Lake District in 2022.
Can you think of some jobs that local people can do to support the tourist industry? Pause the video and do this as a think pair and share activity.
You can come together and share your ideas as a class.
How did you get on? Did you talk about jobs linked to accommodation such as jobs in hotels or B&Bs? And did you talk about jobs linked to food and drinks, such as in restaurants, pubs, and bars, jobs like chefs and waiters, hotel managers, and even receptionists.
Maybe you talked about tour guides taking tourists on walking tours, coach or bus tours, or even a ferry boat captain taking tourists all around the landscape to explore the mountains and the lakes.
There are also museum guides who can take tourists around areas of historical significance like Hilltop, which is the home of Beatrix Potter.
She was famous for writing and illustrating many stories such as "Peter Rabbit" and others.
Did you talk about the shop owners that sell things that tourists might need while they're out exploring the landscape of the Lake District? Did you talk about shops that sell souvenirs as well so that the tourists remember their trip? These are just a few jobs but there are so many other jobs that local people do to support the tourist industry in the Lake District.
I'm sure you said some jobs which I didn't as well, and I'm sure you had a really in-depth discussion about all of those jobs.
Well done.
Let's continue with our learning.
Let's have a quick check here and understand which jobs are linked to tourism.
A, chef, B, school teacher, C, ferry boat captain, or D, hotel receptionist.
Pause the video here and share your thoughts with a partner.
How did you get on? Did you correctly identify that A, C, and D are all jobs linked to tourism? B is not a job affected by tourists, and that's because only local children attend schools in the Lake District.
The other three occupations like chef, ferryboat captain, and hotel receptionist are just a few of the jobs that are linked to tourism.
There are many, many other jobs that local people do that are linked to tourism.
Can you think of any others? Pause the video and see if you can think of any more.
Good job, everyone.
I'm sure you had a really good discussion there about all the different types of jobs that could be linked to tourism.
Local people mainly work in tourism, but farming is a traditional occupation.
In the Lake District, 2,500 people still work in farming.
Hill farming is the main type of farming because of the landscape and the climate.
The land is very hilly and the growing season is short, so only hill farming is suitable for many parts of the Lake District.
You can see there, there's a picture of a sheep, so this area is mainly used for hill sheep farming.
Beef cattle and sheep are the main livestock kept by hill farmers.
The Lake District is famous for its native Herdwick sheep.
These hardy sheep are left to graze on common land and survive on the highest fells, that means the big hills.
Even with the rain, snow, and wind, common land is not divided up into farms or fenced in, and Herdwick sheep flocks know which bit of the fell they're supposed to graze in.
Each generation of sheep passes the knowledge of belonging onto their lambs.
How clever is that? So each of the sheep and the lambs know exactly where they're supposed to be grazing.
Today there are around 50,000 Herdwicks with 95% of these living within 15 miles of Coniston.
Other traditional practises in the Lake District include hedge laying, coppicing of woodlands, and quarrying of local building materials.
Hedge laying in the Lake District is an ancient craft that has benefits for the environment and biodiversity because natural hedges rows are a haven for wildlife and also make great boundaries for fields.
Coppicing is an ancient woodland management technique that has been used for many years to produce a crop of timber from broadleaf woodland like oak, ash, birch, hazel, and alder.
Trees are cut down almost to ground level and new shoots allowed to sprout from the base.
Wood produced from coppicing has been used locally for barbecue charcoal, fencing, firewood, beams, garden structures, and furniture.
Local people have been quarrying materials from the Lake District for many years.
Materials taken from the ground include materials for dry stone walls, graphite, this is famously used to make pencils but is now also used in glass and steel manufacturing and nuclear power generation, and slate.
Slate can be used for flooring and roofing.
This image is of Hodge Close quarry, which is just one of the abandoned old slate workings between Langdale and Coniston.
The last working slate quarry in England can be found in the Lake District.
Most of the slate quarries in the Lake District have now closed.
This is because different materials are now commonly used for roofing and it is cheaper and easier to quarry slate in other places.
Traces of old slate quarries can still be seen in places like Hodge Close, which is sometimes used for outdoor activities like climbing and for scuba diving.
Let's check our understanding of one of those traditional methods.
Quarrying, what has quarrying provided for the local people in the landscape? A, materials for dry stone walls, B, graphite, C, diamonds, or D, slate.
Pause the video and complete that check.
How did you get on? Did you remember that materials have been quarried include materials for dry stone walls, graphite, and slate.
Well done if you got those right.
Diamonds can also be mined, but not in the Lake District.
Well done if you correctly identified A, B, and D, you can give yourselves a thumbs up.
Good job, everyone.
It is time for our first task now.
Using what you know about how local people use the landscape of the Lake District, add as many ideas as you can to this diagram.
For example, you might want to add tourism to the diagram, but can you be specific and list some of the ways that tourism uses that landscape? Remember, people come because of its special qualities.
For example, you could say hotels or restaurants.
Pause the video now and add as many things as you can to this diagram.
Think about how local people use the landscape.
Pause the video now.
Well, geographers, how did you get on? Did you manage to list some of the different ways that local people use the landscape of the Lake District? Did you have any of these correct answers for tourism? You could have said for restaurants, hotels, shops, B&Bs, the Beatrix Potter Museum, heritage railway, or ferries.
You could have said things like quarrying for materials to build dry stone walls, graphite, and slate.
Well done if you had any of these ways that people use the landscape.
Did you have any others of your own? Why don't you share your ideas now with your geography buddy or as a class and see if you can add any more ideas to your diagram.
Pause the video now and share your learning with a partner.
Good job.
Did your friends help you identify any more things like coppicing of woodland, hill farming of Herdwick sheep, or hedge laying? Well done.
Good job if you completed that task.
It's now time to move on to the next part of our lesson.
We've just learnt all the different ways that local people use the landscape of the Lake District.
We know the main source of employment in the region is tourism, so now we'll investigate how these visitors use the landscape.
Do you think they'll use it in the same way as the local people? I don't think tourists would come to the Lake District to quarry or to farm.
What do you think they will come to do? Talk to your partner and see if you can think of ideas.
How would tourists use the landscape of the Lake District? Good job.
We'll be answering that question as we complete the rest of our learning today.
In 2022, 18.
14 million tourists visited the Lake District to walk, bike, climb, do water sports, and enjoy the scenery.
Are those some of the things that you said with your partner? Good job, well done if you did.
Tourism brought in over 2 billion for the Lake District in 2022.
That's a huge amount of money.
Local people depend on this money as it's their main source of income.
Tourists have come to the Lake District mainly because of its special qualities.
Let's look at how all of these tourists use the landscape when they visit.
Some tourists visit the Lake District just for a day, but some want to stay for longer and need overnight accommodation.
There are lots of different types of accommodation in the Lake District for people to choose from, including hotels and B&Bs.
B&B stands for bed and breakfast.
That means you get to sleepover and you get to have a nice meal in the morning.
Campsites and caravan parks, glamping pods or yurts, or holiday rentals.
Have you ever stayed in any of these types of accommodation? Pause the video and tell your partner.
Great.
I'm sure you had a good discussion there about all of these different types of accommodation and whether you've stayed there.
There are lots of outdoor activities for tourists to enjoy in the Lake District where people can make use of the national park's special qualities.
They can do things like walking, climbing, cycling, swimming, sailing, and paddle boarding, just to name a few of those outdoor activities.
Sam said she went on a ferry across Lake Windermere when she visited.
This is a great way of getting around and a handy way of sightseeing as well.
When Alex visited the Lake District, he climbed to the top of Catbells near Keswick when he visited the Lake District.
The lakes and mountainous landscapes of the Lake District attract tourists because there are so many different outdoor activities that you can do in such a beautiful landscape with all of those breathtaking views.
In addition to requiring accommodation, tourists also need places to eat and drink.
Therefore, lots of restaurants and pubs have been established in the main towns and villages.
Climbing mountains can be really thirsty work.
Shops that sell souvenirs and items that tourists may need during their visit are also very important and they can be found in the villages of the Lake District as well.
Another reason why the Lake District has special qualities is because of the places which have historical significance.
There are other places which have been preserved and protected for historic purposes, including Roman remains, slate quarries, and mills.
The homes of famous people like the poet William Wordsworth and Beatrix Potter are tourist destinations, as well as many museums and galleries in the Lake District.
Tourist like to visit these places to see what it might have been like in the past.
There's a picture here of Hilltop, which is Beatrix Potter's farmhouse home.
Lots of tourists like to visit it.
It's now time for task B.
Now that we've investigated how climate affects farming and energy production, our final task for today's lesson is to research what you would do if you visited the Lake District.
You could use the Lake District's National Park website or the visit the Lake District Tourism website to find out more about what you could do on your visit.
Then imagine you have been on your holiday and write a postcard describing what you did on your visit.
You could address it to one of your classmates.
Pause the video now and complete task B.
How did you get on with Task B? What did you decide to do on your visit to the Lake District? Here's an example of a postcard from Sam to their classmate.
"Hello, everyone.
I have had a wonderful holiday in the Lake District.
I stayed in a cosy cottage in Ambleside and saw some amazing sights including Scafell Pike, the tallest mountain in England.
I tried swimming in Lake Windermere and cycled through Langdale Valley.
I even visited Hilltop, the home of Beatrix Potter.
Wish you were here, Sam." And you can see there that the address of the school is written on the right hand side.
Well done if you've completed your postcard to your classmates.
Good job, everyone.
You've done some brilliant learning today investigating how the region is used by local people and tourists.
We've now come to the end of our lesson.
Let's just go through a quick summary of all the learning that we've completed together today.
We've learned a lot about working in the Lake District.
We know that tourism is vital to the economy of the area, providing employment and supporting services in local communities.
People mainly work in tourism, but farming is a traditional occupation.
Beef cattle and sheep are the main livestock kept by hill farmers.
Its famous Herdwick sheep often graze on common land.
Traditional practises include hedge laying, coppicing of woodland, and quarrying of local building materials.
You've been brilliant today.
Give yourselves one last thumbs up and well done for joining me today and for sharing your learning with me.
See you next time for more geography Lessons soon.
Goodbye.
