Lesson video

Welcome to our history lesson today.

We are learning all about explorers in this unit of work.

So far we have learnt about Amelia Earhart, we have learnt about Neil Armstrong, Valentina Tereshkova, Ernest Shackleton, and today, we are learning about someone called Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

Now the difference between Ranulph and all the other explorers we've learned about is he is still alive.

He has been named one of the greatest living explorers and we're going to learn all about his wonderful life so far in this lesson.

Now, I got my ship behind me so that we can sell to one of the polar regions.

I would like us to go back to Antarctica so I can begin to tell you about Ranulph Fiennes today.

Are you ready? So we're going to do our two clicks.

One, two.

Do you think you can help me? You can? Perfect.

Ready, so we're going to do two more.

One , two , and we have arrived in Antarctica and again, Ooh, it's so cold here.

I need my hat and I need my coat.

And you know what to do? How many claps? Two.

Are you ready? So, one clap ready? Oh, thank you.

Okay, ready for the next clap.

Ready, steady go.

Thank you.

Ooh, lovely and warm now.

Now, ooh, we've put my coat and my hat on just in time for the snow.

Always snows when Miss Harris gets to Antarctica doesn't it? Now, are you ready to learn about Sir Ranulph Fiennes? You are? Okay, let's get started.

So, can you remember what a historian is? So a historian is a person who studies, well done, and writes about the past, well done.

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past.

Well done.

Now today, we will be recapping the Southern continents, because it's really important.

We remember where the seven continents are on earth, because Sir Ranulph Fiennes is doing something very special on each of the continents.

But I'll talk about that later.

We're going to then have an introduction to Sir Ranulph Fiennes, then we're going to listen to the story of his life, look at the story of his life, and then draw the story of his life.

Today, you will need your exercise book or a sheet of paper, a pencil, and your teddy bear so that your teddy can sit with you and listen to the story of Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

Let's do our star words.

Our star words are the important words you're going to be hearing a lot this lesson.

So it's important we practise them.

So that's going to be my turn, your turn.

You ready? So copying me.

Star words, star words, star words! Your turn.

Explorer, continent, expedition, polar regions.

Can you remember what the polar regions are? So the Antarctic, sorry Antarctic and Arctic.

Antarctic, Arctic.

Well done.

Sir Ranulph Fiennes, climbing.

Good, well done.

So, Sir Ranulph Fiennes is the explorer we're going to be learning about today.

He has been called the world's greatest living explorer, because he's still alive.

He's a British explorer who is attempting a new world record to raise money for charity.

And if he succeeds, he will be the first person to cross the North and South Pole and climb the highest mountain on each of the world's continents.

So, there's seven continents He only has three more mountains to climb.

So let's recap the seven continents.

Can you remember where they are? Let's take a closer look.

Are you ready? So, what is the light green one? North America, well done.

What is the one below it, the dark green continent? South America, well done.

What's the red continent? Europe, well done, that's the location of Europe.

Now remember, these continents aren't these colours.

Africa is not yellow.

It's just the map.

What about the orange one? Asia, well done.

And the purple one? Well done, Australia but it's also known as Australasia or Oceania.

And then, at the bottom we have Antarctica.

Great job.

Now, can you remember, why is the Arctic not on the map? Can you remember? So, Antarctica is a continent, because underneath all that ice, because it's almost all covered in ice, under the ice is land.

But in the Arctic it's just a huge sheet of ice.

So, it hasn't got any land there so we don't class it as a continent, okay? That's why it's not on our map.

Sir Ranulph Fiennes wants to climb all of the mountains.

Oh, sorry, the highest mountain on each continent.

Let's have a look at those mountains.

So we have got The North Pole, sorry, not the mountains.

So he has been to the North Pole.

He has crossed the South Pole as well.

That's why it's got a tick.

He has climbed Mount Elbrus in Europe.

He has climbed Mount Everest in Asia.

He has climbed Kilimanjaro in Africa.

He has recently in 2016, climbed Vinson in Antarctica.

But he's got three more to go.

He's got Denali in North America, Aconcagua in South America and Carstensz in Australia or Oceania.

Okay, so they are the ones that he has got left to do.

He's got three more to go.

So he's crossed both of the polar regions, so North and South, the South Pole also known as the Arctic and Antarctica.

So he's got three more mountains to climb and then he will have set a new world record, because no one has crossed both polar regions and climbed the highest mountain on each continent.

No one has done it yet.

So here we are recapping the Antarctic.

So we've got the Antarctic, which is the South Pole.

It almost all, is 99% of it is covered in ice, almost all of it.

It's at the Southernmost part of earth.

It's windy and extremely cold.

There is land under the ice, so beneath the ice.

And nobody lives there.

Then we've got the Arctic, which is the North Pole.

It's a huge floating sheet of ice.

It's in the Northernmost part of earth, it's windy and extremely cold.

Now, I'm going to tell you the story of Sir Ranulph Fiennes' life so far.

So remember, he's still alive.

So, I'm sure that this story is going to change when he climbs more mountains.

So I'm going to be telling you a biography.

A biography is a piece of writing that tells true facts and information about someone's life.

So, sit comfortably, get your teddy ready to listen.

So, I'm going to be telling you the story three times.

The first time I'm going to read it.

Then we're going to look at pictures with the story again, and then we're going to map the stories, so we're going to draw some pictures.

So, Ranulph was born in the United Kingdom.

When he was a young man, he joined the army for eight years.

While he was in the army he taught soldiers how to ski and canoe.

When he left the army, Ranulph and his wife decided to raise money for charities by leading expeditions all over the world.

In 1979, Ranulph, his wife and some friends were the first ever people to travel around the globe from the North Pole to the South Pole it was called the Transglobe Expedition.

It took nearly three years to complete.

For a year, Ranulph led the world's first ever hovercraft expedition along the world's longest river, the Nile in Egypt.

Ranulph and his friend, Mike were then the first people to cross Antarctica in an unsupported expedition.

It was the longest unsupported journey in history.

And that means that nobody helped them along the way.

No one gave them any food or support.

They did it all by themselves.

In 2003, Ranulph had a huge heart attack and had major heart surgery.

But only three months later, he ran seven marathons in seven days.

So remember, a marathon is a really long running race, and he did one every day for a week.

He raised 2 million pounds for the British Heart Foundation by climbing Mount Everest in Southern China.

Ranulph is attempting to complete a challenge where he climbs the highest mountain on each of the world's seven continents and cross both polar ice caps.

He has three more mountains left to climb even though he's 76 years old.

This is called The Global Reach Challenge.

Bad sadly, his wife Ginny, died of cancer a few years ago.

And since then, Ranulph has been fundraising in support of the charity called Marie Curie, which is a charity that supports families who have been affected by cancer.

Wow, so he's 76 years old.

He's done all of those things.

Very busy.

Now let's look at some pictures while I read you this story again.

Ranulph was born in the United Kingdom.

When he was a young man, he joined the army for eight years.

While he was in the army, he taught soldiers how to ski and canoe.

When he left the army, Ranulph and his wife decided to raise money for charities by leading expeditions all over the world.

In 1979, Ranulph, his wife and some friends, were the first ever people to travel around the globe from the North Pole to the South Pole.

It took almost three years and it was called the Transglobe Expedition.

For a year, Ranulph led the world's first ever hovercraft expedition along the River Nile in Egypt.

So you can see, this is a picture of what a hovercraft looks like.

Ranulph and his friend Mike were the first people to cross Antarctica in an unsupported expedition.

It was the longest unsupported polar journey in history.

That means that nobody helped them along the way.

In 2003, he had a huge heart attack and had major heart surgery.

But only three months later, he ran seven marathons in seven days and he raised 2 million pounds by climbing Mount Everest in Southern China.

Ranulph is attempting to complete a challenge where he climbs the highest mountain on each of the world's seven continents and cross both polar ice caps.

He has three more mountains left to climb, even though he's 76 years old.

This is called the Global Reach Challenge.

But sadly, his wife Ginny died of cancer.

And since then, Ranulph has been fundraising in support of the Marie Curie charity, which is a charity that supports those families affected by cancer.

And you can see, this as a picture of their logo, which helps you recognise the charity.

So, we're now going to map the story of his life.

So we're going to draw some pictures.

So to make our story map, we are going to need nine boxes.

So first, we are going to fold the sheet across and we're going to try and make these two sides roughly the same size.

Make a crease in the paper and then fold it over again, making the fold.

Once you open it up, you should have three columns, then you're going to turn it to portrait and you're going to do the same thing again folding inwards, making them roughly the same, and then folding again.

Making a crease.

Once you open it you should have nine boxes.

So we are going to map the story of Ranulph Fiennes' life.

So first, I'm going to read you the first three boxes and we're going to map them, then I'm going to give you a chance to pause the video and draw the first three boxes.

And then we're going to continue doing the next three and the last three.

So, I'm going to start by drawing a number 1.

So, Ranulph was born in the United Kingdom when he was a young man.

He joined the army for eight years.

While he was in the army, he taught soldiers how to ski and how to canoe.

So, I'm going to draw Ranulph canoeing.

So, I need to draw a little boat and then, a little point in the middle that you sit in like this.

Draw a little stick man in his boat with his canoe.

There you go.

And he taught them how to ski.

So there is Ranulph with his skis too.

Number 2.

When he left the army, Ranulph and his wife decided to raise money for charities leading expeditions all around the world.

So he wanted to raise lots of money.

So I'm going to draw a little coin purse here to show he wanted to raise lots of money.

So, we're just going to draw some money here, coins.

Great.

Number 3, in 1979, in 1979, Ranulph, his wife and some friends were the first ever people to travel around the globe from the North Pole to the South Pole.

It was called the Transglobe Expedition.

It took almost three years to complete.

I'm going to draw that world.

I'm going to draw a little mark to show the North Pole and the South Pole.

And I'm going to draw some land on here as well to show that he went from here, North Pole to the South Pole, all around the world.

And it took three years to complete.

Okay, it's your turn to draw boxes 1, 2, and 3.

Pause the video, have a go at that now.

Now we're going to do boxes 4, 5, and 6.

Again, I'm going to draw them first, then you're going to have a chance to draw them.

So, for one year, Ranulph led the world's first ever hovercraft expedition along the world's longest river, the Nile in Egypt.

So, the Nile, just going to draw the river.

The River Nile.

I'm going to draw a little pyramid to help me remember that it's in Egypt.

And then, if you want to, you can draw a hovercraft.

I'm going to try and draw one.

But remember, Miss Harris is not the best at drawing.

So it goes really fast across the river like this.

Number 5.

Ranulph and his friend Mike, were then the first people to cross Antarctica in an unsupported expedition.

It was the longest unsupported polar journey in history.

That means that nobody helped them or gave them food along the way.

So I'm going to draw some clouds.

I'm going to write the word Antarctica, I'm going to draw a stick man which is going to pretend to be Ranulph walking with a rucksack on his back, travelling across Antarctica.

I'm going to draw some snowflakes.

And then, I'm going to draw a little person I'm going to put cross through it, because he didn't want any help, didn't get any help from anyone.

Number 6.

In 2003, Ranulph had a massive heart attack and had major heart surgery.

Only three months later he ran seven marathons in seven days.

He raised 2 million pounds for the British Heart Foundation by climbing Mount Everest in Southern China.

So first, I'm going to draw a heart to show that he had a heart attack.

Then I'm going to draw him again to try and draw him running seven marathons, seven days.

And he climbed Mount Everest and raised 2 million pounds.

Lots of pounds for charity.

So, your turn.

Draw box 4, 5 and 6.

Okay, number 7.

So, Ranulph is attempting to complete a challenge where he climbs the highest mountain on each of the world's seven continents and cross both polar ice caps.

So, I'm going to draw a picture of the earth.

Oh, number 7, sorry.

So, he wants to climb all the mountains on all seven continents.

So, we know already, he's gone from the North Pole to the South Pole.

We know he's done that.

But he wants to climb mountains as well, and then draw little mountains on each piece of land that we draw.

So that's 4, 5, 6, 7.

So that doesn't look quite like the earth, but you can see there are seven mountains for the seven continents.

Number 8, he has three more mountains left to climb even though he's 76 years old.

So he's very inspiring.

So he's got.

Sorry, he's got three more to climb.

So I'm going to draw three mountains.

Number 9.

Sadly, his wife Ginny died of cancer.

And since then, Ranulph has been fundraising to support the Mary Curie charity, which is a charity that supports those families who have been affected by cancer.

So Marie Curie is a really, really important charity.

And often what people wear is they might wear a daffodil to represent this charity.

So I'm going to write Marie Curie and I'm going to draw a little daffodil to show the charity.

There we go.

Okay, your turn to draw boxes 7, 8 and 9.

Off you go.

Now, it's quiz time.

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And I will see you next time.

Bye!.