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Hello, my name is Ms. Jarrett Jan.
You've made a great choice to learn geography with me today.
I'm so pleased that you've decided to complete your learning with me.
We are going to do brilliantly.
Let's start our learning for today.
Welcome to today's lesson from our unit, the Americas.
How diverse are its places and landscapes.
This lesson is called Using maps to locate the countries in North and South America.
You'll be learning to locate selected countries in North and South America on a map, identify lines of latitude and longitude, and start to appreciate the size of these continents.
Some of the learning is brand new, but I'm here to help you.
This links back to previous learning you might have done, exploring the continents of the world and their location in relation to each other.
I'm really excited to get started.
I hope you are too.
The key words we'll be using today are continent, location, equator, Northern Hemisphere, and Southern Hemisphere.
We'll be using these key words during the lesson and learning more about them later.
Let's do my turn your turn.
Continent.
Continent.
Location.
Location.
Equator.
Equator.
Northern Hemisphere.
Northern Hemisphere.
Southern Hemisphere.
Southern Hemisphere.
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.
A continent is a large landmass on earth and there are seven.
Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania.
A location is a particular position of something on earth.
The equator is an imaginary line encircling earth at 0 degrees latitude and is an equal distance from the North Pole and South Pole.
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of the earth located north of the equator.
The Southern Hemisphere is the half of the earth located south of the equator.
These are the learning cycles we'll be working through together in today's lesson.
First, we'll be looking at where North and South America are.
Then we will learn about the lines of latitude and longitude.
Finally, we'll be learning about which countries are in North and South America.
Are you ready to start your learning today? Fantastic.
Let's begin.
What is a continent? Where have you heard this word before? Look at this image to help you.
You can have a think, pair, and share discussion.
Pause the video now and answer this question.
How did you get on? A continent is usually defined as a group of countries on a continuous landmass with Associated Islands.
How many continents are there in the world? Pause the video now and answer this question.
There are seven continents in the world.
Well done if you got that right.
Can you name them? Have a think.
Pause the video now and think about what these continents are called.
Did you get that right? The continents are called Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, South America and Oceania.
Well done if you got that right.
You can give yourselves a thumbs up like this.
Let's have a little check now.
We can check all of our learning that we've done so far by answering this question together.
How many continents are there in the world? Are there A, five, B, six, or C, seven? Pause the video now and answer this question.
Well done, did you say seven? That's right.
There are seven continents in the world.
You can give yourselves a thumbs up.
Good job, everyone.
So let's have another little check here.
Which of the following is not a continent? A, Africa, B, Antarctica, C, Arctic, or D, Asia? Pause the video now and answer this question.
The correct answer is C, Arctic.
It is not a continent.
Remember, the seven continents are called Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania.
Well done.
In this lesson, we are going to be learning about the location of North and South America.
What do you know about these continents already? How could you find out more? Have a discussion with your classmates.
Where could you find out more information about these continents? Pause the video now and answer this question.
Lots of different sources of information can be used to find out about the location of North and South America.
Did you say atlases, globes, maps, and the internet? Well done.
Those are correct.
You can use any of them or all of them to find out more information about these continents.
Where are North and South America on this map? Pause the video now and answer this question.
How did you get on? I'm sure you remembered the location of North and South America.
Let's have a look together.
Here is North America and here is South America.
Did you locate them correctly? Well done.
You can give yourselves another thumbs up.
North and South America are bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east.
There it is, and the Pacific Ocean to the west over there.
North America is in the Northern Hemisphere, so that is everything north of the equator.
South America spans both the Northern and the Southern Hemisphere.
That is because it lies on either side of the equator, which is if we remember the imaginary line at 0 degrees latitude and it's an equal distance from the North Pole and the South Pole.
Let's have another little check here.
Name a source of information that could be used to investigate the location of North and South America.
Pause the video here and answer this question.
How did you get on? Did you say atlases, globes, maps, and the internet? Well done.
Those are correct.
So remember you can use any of them or all of them to find out more information about the continents.
So let's have another little check here.
Label the oceans to the east and to the west of North and South America.
Pause the video here and answer this question.
Remember that North and South America are bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
Well done.
This check is a true or false question, so you have to think carefully.
South America spans both the Northern and the Southern Hemisphere.
Is that statement true or false? Pause the video now and answer this question.
Did you answer true? That's correct, well done.
Now we need to think about justifying our answer and thinking why it's true.
So is it true because the equator passes through South America or is it true because South America is split over two islands, one in the northern and one in the Southern Hemisphere? Pause the video now and justify your answer.
The correct answer is A, South America spans both the Northern and the Southern Hemisphere because the equator passes through South America.
Well done if you got that right.
Give yourselves another thumbs up.
It's now time for our first task.
You need to locate and label North and South America, the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, and the equator on this world map.
Pause the video now and complete task A.
Well done, geographers.
How did you get on? Does your labelled world map look like mine? Good job.
It's now time to continue with our learning.
We are now going to look at what lines of latitude and longitude are.
Lines of latitude and longitude are imaginary lines that are used to locate where places are in the world.
Have you ever used these lines to locate somewhere on a map? Pause the video now and have a discussion with your class.
Great.
I'm sure you had a fantastic discussion.
Latitude describes how far north or south a location is from the equator.
Remember, the equator is the imaginary line that runs at 0 degrees latitude and is an equal distance from the North Pole and the South Pole.
You can see it on the globe.
Lines of latitude are imaginary lines that circle the earth.
They all run parallel to the equator.
Latitude is measured in degrees from 90 degrees north, the North Pole to 90 degrees south, the South Pole.
You can see the North Pole at the top of the globe, the South Pole at the bottom, and the equator at the middle, which is if you remember, 0 degrees latitude.
There are five major lines of latitude, the Arctic Circle at the North Pole, the tropic of Cancer, the equator, the tropic of Capricorn, and the Antarctic circle.
There are many other lines of latitude as well, but these five are the major ones, So let's have a check here.
This is another true or false question, so you have to think really carefully again.
The tropic of Cancer crosses through the equator.
Is that statement true or false? Pause the video now and answer this question.
Did you say false? Well done, that's correct.
Now we need to justify our answer and think about why it's false.
So is that statement false because, A, lines of latitude run parallel to the equator or, B, the tropic of Cancer and the equator run north to south? Pause the video now and justify your answer.
The correct answer is A, lines of latitude run parallel to the equator so the tropic of Cancer doesn't cross through the equator because parallel lines never touch.
Well done for that check.
That was really tricky.
Let's continue with our learning.
Longitude describes how far to the east or west a location is.
Lines of longitude are imaginary lines that circle the earth from top to bottom.
Longitude is measured in degrees.
They are 360 degrees of longitude from 180 degrees east to 180 degrees west.
The line of longitude at 0 degrees is called the Prime Meridian or Greenwich Meridian.
There it is on the image of the globe, and you can see it passes through several countries, which includes the UK.
Together, the continents of North and South America cross many lines of latitude and longitude because they're so huge.
Now it's time for another check.
Lines of longitude are, you can select two answers from below, A, vertical, B, horizontal, C, measured in degrees from 180 east to 180 west, or D, measured in degrees from 180 north to 180 south.
Pause the video now and answer this question.
How did you get on? The correct answers are A and C.
Lines of longitude are vertical and measured in degrees from 180 east to 180 west.
Well done.
Give yourselves another thumbs up.
It is now time for task B.
Label the equator, tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic circles, and the Prime Meridian on your world map.
Pause the video now and have a go at task B.
Here are the answers.
Did you get them right? Did you label everything correctly? Well done.
Give yourselves a thumbs up.
We are now onto the final part of today's lesson.
We'll be learning about the countries in North and South America.
North and South America are huge and diverse continents.
They're joined by Central America, which is a part of North America.
Do you know the names of any countries in North and South America? Pause the video now and share your ideas.
You can do this as a think, pair, and share activity.
Well done.
I'm sure you were able to name quite a few countries.
I was thinking of Mexico, Belize, and Cuba.
North America is the third largest continent in the world.
It includes the huge island of Greenland in the north, the islands of the Caribbean, and the sub-region of Central America.
Canada is the largest country in North America by land area.
South America is the fourth largest continent in the world.
It's made up of 12 countries, including Brazil, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador, and Chile.
Can you name any other countries? Pause the video now and share your your ideas.
It can be a think, pair, and share activity as well.
Well done.
I'm sure you were able to name quite a few countries.
I was thinking about Argentina and Bolivia.
Let's have another check here.
Sort these countries into the correct columns in the table to show if they are in the continent of North America or South America.
Pause the video and answer this question.
You can do it on mini whiteboards.
How did you get on? Did you sort the countries like this? Cuba, USA, Canada, and Jamaica are in North America and Ecuador, Chile, Peru, and Brazil are in South America.
Can you name any other countries in North and South America? You can think about all of the countries that you've discussed so far.
Pause the video now and have another discussion.
Great.
I'm sure you thought about lots of countries that are in North and South America.
It's now time for task C.
Use an atlas to locate and label these countries on your map of North and South America.
Pause the video now and complete task C.
Good job, everyone.
Here's my answer to task C.
Did you label all of these countries correctly? Greenland, Canada, the United States of America, Mexico, Belize, Cuba, and Jamaica are all located in North America.
And Ecuador, Columbia, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile are all located in South America.
Good job, geographers.
I'm sure you learned the names of lots of countries located in the continents of North and South America.
You can give yourselves a thumbs up because that was another tricky task.
Well done.
Let's go through a summary of the learning that we've completed together today.
Today, we learned that different sources of information such as atlases and maps can be used to investigate the location of North and South America.
We've learned that lines of latitude and longitude are used to locate where places are in the world.
North and South America cross many lines of latitude and longitude.
They're made up of many different countries.
Well done.
You've been fantastic 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.
Bye.
