Lesson video

Hello, my name is Ms. Chorekdjian.

I'm so excited to be learning with you today.

I will be guiding you through every step of our geography lesson today.

We are going to have a great time learning together.

Let's start our learning journey.

Welcome to today's lesson from our unit called "Around the world in 80 days; what have we learned about our world?" This lesson is called "Geographical Skills: Describing the UK." Your learning outcome is to use maps and geographical skills to investigate the geography of the UK.

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

This lesson is really about celebrating the geographical learning.

You might have done of the UK so far.

This links back to previous experience you might have of geographical inquiry, map work, field work, critical thinking, and use of a wide range of sources of information.

You might have also reflected on geography as a subject and discussed the value of learning geography.

You might have also discussed how geography helps us to understand the world and how it works.

You might have also used your geographical knowledge, skills, and data to investigate different places.

Here are the key words that we will be using together today.

Let's practise saying them using my turn, your turn.

Land use land use, industry industry, population density population density, diversity diversity.

Let's find out what these key words mean.

Land use.

Land use is the function or purpose of a particular area.

Industry.

Industry is the business of turning raw materials into finished products, usually in factories.

Population density.

Population density is the number of people living in a defined area.

For example, 300 people per square kilometre.

Diversity.

Diversity is a variety of human, physical, or cultural characteristics in a geographical area.

Well done everyone.

I want you to be using these keywords throughout our lesson.

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

First, we're going to think about what we know about the geography of the UK.

And then we're going to think about how we can describe the UK geographically.

I'm really excited about today's lesson.

I hope you are too.

Let's get started.

Geography helps us to make sense of the world around us.

What do you know about the geography of the UK and the place where you live? Think on your own and then share your ideas with someone else.

Pause the video now.

Here are some things that you might have said.

The UK is located in Europe.

England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales make up the UK.

London is the capital city of the UK.

The UK has a temperate climate.

In general, places in the south and east are drier, warmer and sunnier than those in the north and west.

There are mountains in the north and west.

Land use includes agriculture, houses, roads, railways and airports, factories and offices.

You might have also said something like major cities in the UK include Glasgow and Edinburgh in Scotland, Belfast in Northern Ireland, Cardiff and Swansea in Wales, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle and Bristol in England.

Well done.

If you were able to say some of these things.

You might have also said things of your own as well.

Good job everyone.

That's a really great start to our lesson.

You can give yourselves a big thumbs up.

What is it like in the place where you live? Have that discussion as a class.

Pause the video now.

Good job everyone.

I'm sure you had a really interesting discussion about the place where you live.

Where has your knowledge about the geography of the UK come from? What sources of information have you used? What skills have you developed? Think on your own and then share your ideas with someone else.

Pause the video now.

Here's what some pupils had to say, "Going on field trips has helped me to learn about the place where I live.

I've used different types of maps to locate and compare different places in the UK.

Collecting, presenting and interpreting data has helped me to investigate the UK's weather and climate.

I've used many different sources of information including the internet, photographs, satellite images and information books." Well done, if you were able to talk about where you learn your knowledge and the sources of information that you use.

It's time to have a quick check here.

Name a source of information that you have used to learn about the geography of the UK.

Pause the video now and complete this check.

How did you get on? Did you say things like maps and atlases, climate data graphs, field work, information books, photographs, the internet and satellite images.

Fantastic, well done, if you are able to name these sources of information.

You can give yourselves another big thumbs up.

It's now time for task A.

What I would like you to do is think of three quiz questions about the geography of the UK for someone else in Year 6 to answer.

Your questions could be on weather and climate, human features, physical features, major cities, transport or anything geographical! This is a chance to really celebrate your knowledge of the UK so far.

You may be able to use your own knowledge or you could use different sources of information to carry out your research.

You could use atlases, the internet, books and knowledge from other people.

You need to write down the answers as well.

One question has been done as an example.

So in the column on the left, I've written the question, what are the countries of the UK? And then in the column on the right I've written the answer.

England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Pause the video now and complete task A.

How did you get on with task A? Here are some examples of quiz questions and answers.

So we've already been through the first one.

My other questions are, what is and where is the highest mountain in the UK? And the answer is Ben Nevis in the Scottish Highlands.

My next question says, list five land uses in the UK.

And the answer of that is agricultural, commercial, industrial, residential and transport.

And then my final question says, name a food that is exported by the UK and the answer to that is cheese.

Well done, if you were able to write those questions.

I'm sure you had lots of fun thinking about these quiz questions for a friend.

Perhaps, you could put your quiz questions together with others to create a class quiz.

And then if you have any other parallel Year 6 classes, maybe you could have a go at each other's quizzes.

Good job everyone.

Well done for completing task A.

You can give yourselves a big thumbs up.

It's now time to move on to the second part of our lesson.

How can we describe the UK geographically? How would you describe the UK to someone? Imagine you could only use one word and one picture.

What word and which picture would you choose? And why did you choose these? Pause the video here and have this discussion.

You might like to do it as a think-pair and share activity So you hear a wide range of different opinions.

Pause the video now.

How did you get on imagining only one word to use to describe the UK and only one picture? It's quite a difficult task, isn't it? And it's hard to sum up a whole area based on one word and one picture.

It's very difficult to describe a place in one word or a single picture.

It doesn't give a full understanding of what a place is like.

This can lead to people having misconceptions and ideas that are stereotypes.

A misconception is an incorrect idea or opinion that someone might have about something.

A stereotype is a set idea that someone might have about a place or thing, which is often not true in reality.

So an example of a stereotype about the UK could be that everyone drinks tea, and that's just not right.

Some people don't like tea.

So that shows us why it's really hard to describe a place in a single word or a single picture.

It could lead to misconceptions and stereotypes.

It's time for a quick true or false check.

So that means you've got to think really carefully about whether or not this statement is true or false.

A stereotype is a correct set of ideas about a place or thing.

Pause the video now and answer that check.

How did you get on? Did you say false? That's correct.

It's now time to justify our answer.

A, stereotypes give a good picture of something in one word, or B, stereotypes give a particular view of something that is often not true in reality.

Pause the video now and justify the answer.

How did you get on? Did you say that stereotypes give a particular view of something that is often not true in reality? That's correct.

Good job.

You can give yourselves a big thumbs up.

What geographical differences might there be between different places in the UK? Pause the video here and see if you can answer that question.

How did you get on? You could have said things like weather and climate, physical landscape, settlement type, land use, population density or industry.

Well done everyone, if you are able to say some of these geographical differences that there might be between different places in the UK.

Different types of information can show the geographical diversity of the UK.

We've got climate graphs, aerial photographs, Ordnance Survey maps, photographs and population density maps.

Can you think of anything else? Have that discussion with your class.

Good job everyone.

I'm sure you're able to have a really good discussion there.

It's now time for a quick check.

Given example of a way in which places in the UK might be different.

Pause the video now and complete this check.

How did you get on? Did you say things like weather and climate, physical landscape, settlement type, land use, population density and industry? Well done.

You can give yourselves a big thumbs up.

Good job everyone.

Photographs can be used to show the geographical diversity of the UK.

What different features, land uses and settlement types can you see in these photographs? Pause the video now and have that discussion with someone else.

You might also want to have it as a class discussion.

Good job everyone.

Did you talk about different types of land uses and settlement types? You might have also talked about physical and human features too.

Fantastic.

Good job everyone.

Well done for your learning so far.

It's now time for a quick check.

Which type of land use is shown in this photograph? Pause the video now and complete this check.

How did you get on? Did you say woodland? That's correct.

You can give yourselves a big thumbs up.

Good job everyone.

Aerial and satellite images are a good way to show different land uses and industries in the UK.

What differences can you see in these two images? Pause the video here and have that discussion with a partner.

How did you get on? You might have said that the photograph on the left looks like the land use is a mixture of residential and also industrial because you can see houses and also buildings that look like factories.

You might have said that the photograph on the right shows agricultural land use because you can see lots of green spaces there and not many houses or factories.

Good job everyone.

Well done.

If you were able to identify those different types of land uses, you can give yourselves a big thumbs up.

It's time for a quick check here.

What is the main type of industry shown in this aerial image? Pause the video now and complete this check.

How did you get on? We're able to say agriculture? Fantastic.

Well done everyone.

Different types of maps can also be used to show the geographical diversity of the UK.

What information does each of these maps show? Pause the video here and discuss these with a partner.

How did you get on? Were you able to say that this map shows the natural features like mountains and rivers.

It also shows us the height of the land.

So we can see the altitude.

This map shows us where most people live in the UK because it's showing us population density.

Well done if you were able to say that for both of these maps you can give yourselves a big thumbs up.

Maps of different scales can be used to highlight similarities and differences between places.

What differences between these two places do these Ordnance Survey maps show? Pause the video and have that discussion.

How did you get on? Did you notice all the physical features of the landscape that's represented in these two Ordnance Survey maps? We are able to spot roads and buildings, maybe spotted some farms and areas of agriculture.

You might have also spotted some rivers as well.

There's lots of information that Ordnance Survey maps can tell us.

And by looking and comparing different Ordnance Survey maps and comparing maps with different scales, we can see similarities and differences between places.

Well done if you are able to discuss all of those with your partner.

You can give yourselves a big thumbs up.

It's time for a quick check here.

What does this type of map show? You can choose two.

A, the physical geography of Great Britain.

B, the location of major cities and towns or C, mountains and low-lying areas of land.

Pause the video here and complete this check.

How did you get on? Were you able to say A, this map shows the physical geography of Great Britain and C, mountains and areas of low lying-land because we can see that the height of the land is coloured so we can look at altitude on this map.

Good job everyone.

Well done.

If you've got that right, you can give ourselves another big thumbs up.

Different types of data can be used to show the geographical diversity of the UK.

What differences do these climate graphs show between Brighton and Belfast in the UK? Remember that on a climate graph, the bars tell us how much rain has fallen in that month and then the red line with the dot in the middle shows us the average temperature for that month.

Pause the video here and answer this question.

During your discussions, did you remember that the bars show rainfall and the line shows temperature? The line shows the temperature of Brighton in July is 17 degrees Celsius, whereas in Belfast, it's 15 degrees Celsius.

So we can see already that the difference between these two places is the temperature.

There we can see that in Brighton it's 17 degrees Celsius in July.

And then if we look across and compare what the climate graph shows us for Belfast, we can see that the temperature in July was a little bit cooler and it reaches 15 degrees Celsius.

The rainfall in July in Brighton is around 50 millimetres, whereas in Belfast it is around 90 millimetres.

So again, we can see that there's a difference there in the amount of rain that has fallen in these two places in the same month.

So if we look at the climate graph of Brighton and we look along at the bar that's representing the month of July, we can see that 50 millimetres of rain has fallen and then if we compare the same month July for Belfast, we can see that there's about 90 millimetres of rain that has fallen.

Well done everyone, if you were able to say that.

Good job, you can give yourselves.

Another big thumbs up.

Here are some other types of data.

What does this information tell you about the differences between these two cities in the UK? The two cities that we are looking at is Glasgow in Scotland and London in England.

The types of data that we can see in this table include the population in millions.

The population in Glasgow is 0.

635 million, which is about 635,000 people, whereas in London we can see that the population is 8.

87 million.

So there's a big difference in population between these two places.

We can also see that there's quite a difference in the average life expectancy for men and women.

So the average life expectancy for men in Glasgow is 73, whereas on the other hand it's 79 in London.

And then the average life expectancy for women in Glasgow is 78 whilst it's 84 in London.

So again, there's a big difference there.

And then we can see the average annual income per person per year in UK pounds.

So you can see that in Glasgow that's 33,000 pounds per year, and then in London, it's 44,370 pounds per year.

So you can see here that the information presented in this table and the types of data that we have available helps us think about the differences between these two cities.

Pause the video here and discuss that with a partner.

Great job everyone.

So you could have talked about the population being a lot less in Glasgow compared to London.

However, the life expectancy in Glasgow is also a lot less and the average wage per person is higher in London compared to Glasgow.

Well done, if you were able to do all of that thinking, you can give yourselves another bigger thumbs up.

It's time for a quick check here.

Which place has the highest average rainfall and which month has the highest average temperature? Pause the video here and complete this check.

How did you get on completing this check? Did you say that Braemar is the place that has the highest average rainfall and that's because the figures that we see in this climate graph are a little bit higher than what we see in the climate graph representing the climate of Brighton.

Well done if you got that right.

Thinking about temperature now and which month has the highest average temperature? It's in Brighton.

So the highest average temperature that we can see in Brighton looks to be about 16 or 17 degrees Celsius.

Well done everyone if you were able to answer these two questions correctly.

You can give yourselves another big thumbs up.

This is fantastic learning for today.

It's time for another quick check.

Give an example of a type of information that could be used to show the UK's geographical diversity.

Pause the video here and complete this check.

How did you get on? Were you able to say photographs or maybe aerial photographs? You could have said an Ordnance Survey map or you could have said a relief map or even a climate graph.

These are all different types of information that we can use to show and record the UK's geographical diversity.

Well done everyone.

You're working through this lesson really well.

It's now time for task B.

What I would like you to do is use your geographical knowledge and skills to create a collage that shows the geographical diversity of the UK.

You could use drawings or photographs, satellites or aerial images, different types of maps, different types of data and words.

Pause the video here and complete task B.

Well, geographers, how did you get on with task B? Here's an example of a collage.

I've used different sources of information here and different types of data to represent the geographical diversity of the UK.

I've highlighted physical features.

There are mountains in the north and west.

I've got a map showing the geography of the UK.

I've got information about weather and climate.

So I've said that Brighton is drier, warmer and sunnier than places in the northwest.

And then I've also talked about population.

Most people live in cities like London.

And then I've also included a photograph of London and the River Thames as well.

Good job everyone, for working so hard on your colleges.

I think you did really well using maps and your geographical skills to investigate the geography of the UK.

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

The UK has a range of landscapes, settlement types, land uses, and industries.

We can use maps and other data sources to investigate differences in life across the UK.

We can use geographical skills to investigate differences across the UK.

Good job everyone.

You've been fantastic today.

Well done for joining me and for sharing your learning with me.

I'll see you soon for more geography lessons.

Goodbye.