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 around the world inn 80 days: what have we learned about our world? Today's lesson is called geography in the news.

Your learning outcome will be to reflect on and discuss how geography helps us to understand the world and how it works.

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

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

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

Let's have a look at the keywords that we'll be using together today.

Before we find out what they mean, let's practise saying them together doing my turn, your turn.

Supply chain, supply chain.

Migration.

Migration.

Conflict, conflict.

Climate change, climate change.

Good job, everyone.

Let's find out what these keywords mean.

Supply chain, a supply chain is all of the stages involved in producing goods, transporting them, and selling them to customers.

Migration, migration means moving from one place to another with the intention of staying there.

Conflict, a conflict is a strong disagreement between people or countries, which may lead to fighting.

Climate change, climate change is a large-scale and long-term change in the planet's climate, including weather patterns and average temperatures.

Good job, everyone.

We're going to be using these keywords throughout our lesson.

Let's have a look at the learning cycles that we will work through together today.

First, we'll be thinking about where geography happens? Then we'll think about what's the link with geography? And then finally we'll think of how we can make sense of the news? I'm really excited about our learning today.

I hope you are too.

Let's begin our lesson.

Some pupils are sharing their thoughts.

"We only learn geography at school." "Geography is happening all around us, every day." So we've got a difference of opinion here.

One pupil has said that we only learn geography at school and the other has said that it's happening all around us all the time and every day.

Who do you agree with and why? Share your thoughts with someone else.

So turn to your partner and discuss which of these pupils you agree with and why.

Pause the video now.

How did you get on sharing your answers? Geography is happening all around us every day.

You might learn about it in school and school might help you to make those connections, but it is in fact happening around us all the time.

Sometimes we might not even be aware of it, but it's still happening around us every day all the time.

How is geography connected with these daily activities? Getting dressed for school, walking to school, and eating your dinner.

Pause the video here and see if you can think about how geography is linked to each one of these activities.

How did you get on in those discussions? Let's think about deepening that conversation now.

Let's look at this example together.

Getting dressed for school.

You can use these questions to help you think about the connections with geography.

Where do your clothes come from? How are they made and who made them? How did the clothes get to your home? Who is involved in the supply chain? What are the impacts of your clothes on the environment? This might be when they are made, transported, used or disposed of.

So now that you've got these question points here to help you focus on the discussions, just talk about how you think getting dressed for school might be linked to geography.

Pause the video here.

Good job, everyone.

I'm sure you had a really interesting discussion there about your clothes and where they might come from, who might have made them, and then the supply chain that brings those clothes to your door.

Let's think now about travelling to school and think about more questions here that can help us realise the connections that it has with geography.

How do you and other people in your class travel to school? Where is your school located? What route do you take to get to school? What human and physical features do you travel past on your journey? How do different modes of transport impact the environment? Pause the video here and think about all of these questions in relation to this picture and thinking about how travelling to school is linked to geography.

Pause the video now.

Good job, everyone, I'm sure you were able to talk there about how you travel to school, where your school is located, and then the route that you might take.

I'm sure that really helped you to think about the connections it has with geography.

And finally, eating dinner.

Let's use these questions to help you think about the connections with geography.

Where does your food come from? How is it grown or made? Who is it grown or made by? How does the food you eat reach your plate? How does food cause and how is it impacted by climate change? Pause the video now and use these questions to help you think about the connections that eating dinner has with geography.

Good job, everyone, I'm sure you talked a lot there in depth about where your food might come from, who makes or produces your food, and then how that food might contribute to climate change.

Good job, everyone.

You've thought really carefully there about each of those different pictures and their connections with geography.

You can give yourselves a big thumbs up.

Can you think of how any other daily activities are connected with geography? Share your ideas with someone else.

Pause the video now.

How did you get on? Were you able to talk about other daily activities and how they connected with geography? Shall we see what some pupils had to say? Andeep says, "Everything we do each day is connected with geography in some way!" And that's true because we showed you examples of how travelling to school, eating your dinner and getting dressed are all linked to geography.

So I'm sure you thought there about more examples of how your daily activities are connected to geography.

Well done, everyone.

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

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

Geography is happening all around us every day.

Is that true or false? Pause the video now and complete this check.

How did you get on? Did you say true? It is true, geography is happening all around us every day.

Now it's time to justify our answer and think about why it's true.

Is it true because geography is the study of the world.

We are learning about and interacting with the world every day.

Or B, geography is mentioned in the news every day.

Pause the video now and justify your answer.

How did you get on? Did you say that geography is happening all around us every day because geography is the study of the world.

We are learning about and interacting with the world every day.

And that's true.

Good job, everyone, you can give yourselves another big thumbs up for completing that check.

It's now time for task A.

What I would like you to do is to think of an activity that you did yesterday.

I'd like you to write a description of what the activity is on the left hand side and then I'd like you to write a list of questions to show some of the ways in which this activity is connected with geography.

And you can do that in the column on the right.

Pause the video here and complete task A.

How did you get on with task A, geographers? Here's a completed example of this table.

A description of the activity would be eating a bowl of cornflakes and cow's milk for breakfast.

And then questions which help you think about ways it's connected to geography include how and where is the corn grown? Where does the milk come from? How are cornflakes made? How does the food reach my home? Who is involved in the supply chain and what are the environmental impacts of these foods? So you can see there that we've linked all of these different questions with a description of the activity.

Well done, everyone for completing that task.

I'm sure you thought really carefully there about all the different connections that are involved in some of your daily activities.

You can give yourselves a big thumbs up.

Now it's time to think about what's the link with geography.

Geography is also connected with stories we read or hear about in the news.

Can you think of any events that have been reported in the news recently? These events might have taken place in your local area, somewhere else in the UK or in another part of the world.

Share your ideas with your partner.

Pause the video now.

How did you get on sharing your ideas with your partner? Were you able to think about some of the events that you might have heard or read about recently? Here's some examples of events or things that you might have heard about in the news, migration, flooding or conflict.

These are just some things that you might have heard about.

There could have also been some natural disasters like earthquakes or forest fires as well.

How do these three events link with geography, migration, flooding and conflict? Pause the video here and see if you can share your ideas.

Let's take a look at migration.

Use these questions to help you think about the connections that it has with geography.

What does migration mean? Why might people move within and between countries? What are the benefits of migration? How is the UK population changing? Pause the video here and see if you can discuss these questions with a partner and think about the connections that migration has with geography.

Remember that migration means that people move between countries or within countries.

Pause the video here.

Good job, everyone, I'm sure you had a really interesting discussion there about how migration links with geography.

Let's think about flooding now.

You can use these questions to help you think about the connections with geography.

Where is the flooding happening? What do you know about this country? What physical and human features are there? What is the climate like? What happens in the water cycle? What are the causes and impacts of flooding? Have a discussion there surrounding this photo and flooding and all of these questions here to help you think about the connection that flooding has with geography.

Pause the video now.

Good job, everyone, I'm sure you were able to think there and use these questions to help you make the connections that flooding has with geography.

Now, let's think about conflict.

Use these questions to help you think about the connections that conflict has with geography.

Where is the conflict happening? What do you know about this place? What country or countries are involved? Why might conflict happen? How might conflict affect people's lives? Use these questions here and think about how conflict is connected to geography.

Pause the video now.

Well done, everyone.

I'm sure you had a rich discussion there as well.

It's now time to have a quick check here.

Think of a question to show a way in which a news story about an earthquake is connected with geography.

Pause the video now.

How did you get on? Here are some questions that I thought about.

How might earthquakes impact people's lives? Where did the earthquake happen? What is the structure of the earth like? What is an earthquake? Why do earthquakes happen? So you could have had these questions or you could have had some other questions as well.

Well done for thinking really carefully about the connections that earthquakes have with geography.

It's now time for task B.

Here's an image from a new story.

Add questions around the photograph to show ways in which this new story links with geography.

Pause the video now and complete task B.

How did you get on? Here are some questions that you could have said.

What is the difference between weather and climate? What are the causes of climate change? Why is some people affected by climate change more than others? What types of climate data are there? What are the impacts of climate change? And how are people taking climate action? So these are just some of the questions that you could have had that shows the link between climate change and geography.

Well done for thinking so deeply about all of these connections.

You can give yourselves a big thumbs up.

It's now time to move on with our lesson.

We're going to think about how can we make sense of the news.

The knowledge and skills we learn in geography can help us to make sense of new stories.

Think of a new story that you have read or heard about recently.

How did learning geography help you to understand it? Pause a video now and answer those questions.

So how did geography help you to understand a news story that you might have heard? You might have heard something about conflict or earthquakes or flooding.

Maybe you heard about forest fires or things about different countries, maybe migration.

Geographical knowledge can help us to understand the news.

It can help us understand where places are and what places are like.

Similarities and differences between places.

How people in different parts of the world are connected.

The weather and climates around us.

Different physical features such as mountains and rivers.

And how people impact the environment.

So this is all how geographical knowledge helps us to understand what we see and hear in the news.

I'm sure you are able to say some of these things as well.

So well done.

Geographical skills can help us to understand the news using maps and atlases, reading, asking questions, so all of those inquiry skills, organising information, interpreting data, critical thinking, so that means thinking deeply about information that we get and trying to think about the connections and the impact that it has, and all of these skills that you learned through geography, that geography helps you to develop can also help you develop these skills in other subjects as well.

It's time to have a quick check here.

Name a geographical skill that can help you to understand the news.

Pause the video now and complete this check.

How did you get on with this check? Did you say using maps and atlases, reading, asking questions, organising information, interpreting data, and critical thinking.

So these are all the geographical skills that can help you to understand the news, but they also help you understand other subjects as well.

Good job, everyone, you can give yourselves another big thumbs up.

It's now time for task C.

What I would like you to do is to think of a news story that you've or heard about recently.

Explain how some of the knowledge and skills you have learned in geography have helped you to understand this story.

Pause the video now and complete task C.

How did you get on with task C? Here's what Izzy had to say.

"I've been reading about the Euro's football tournament in the news recently.

Geography has helped me to understand these stories more.

We've learned about the host country in geography.

I can find it on a map and I know a bit about its climate and some of its human and physical features.

I dunno much about some of the countries taking part, but I've been able to use my map skills to find out where they are.

I've also used my research skills to look online and in library books to find out more about these countries." So Izzy's talked there about using her knowledge of geography to help her understand something that she's seen in the news.

So she's seen the news covering stories about the Euro's football tournament.

And then she was able to locate some of the countries taking part using her map skills and she was able to find out more about the country that's hosting the tournament.

I'm sure you were also able to talk about something that you've seen in the news and how your geography knowledge helps you to understand what you've seen or read.

Izzy also had to say, "I heard that some people in the host country aren't very happy that the tournament is being held there.

We've debated reasons for and against issues in geography before.

This helped me to think through what might be the positive and negative consequences of the Euros on people living in the host country." Good job if you were able to talk about something similar.

Well done, you've worked really hard there reflecting on and discussing how geography helps us to understand the world and how it works.

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

Geography is happening all around us every day.

News stories might often have geographical causes and geographical impacts.

Geographical knowledge and skills can help us to understand the news.

Well done, everyone.

You've been fantastic today.

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

I'll see you soon for more geography lessons.

Goodbye.