Lesson 1: Introducing Geography
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•To know what the study of geography involves.
•To understand the difference between physical and human geography and where they overlap, environmental geography. •To be able to classify different topics into these categories |
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Using the handout below, play a game of 'Global Bingo'. There will be a credit for the person who finishes first! You are not allowed to use information from the same person.
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Watch the video below - why do you think Geography is important? Leave one blank space in your notebook. Discuss why geography is important and create a spider diagram of reasons that you can think of.
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Create a cover page to introduce geography. It needs to be colourful, well designed and contain many aspects of what we will study in geography this year.
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Lesson 2: Geographical facts
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Watch the following video and see if you can answer the questions? What is your Geographical knowledge like?
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Create small teams (maximum 4 people). Using the worksheet below, see if you can follow the hints to find answers to the questions. You may use 2 laptops per group.
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Game: Can you name a country that begins with every letter of the alphabet?
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Lesson 3: Introduction to Maps
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Place is very important to our identity…
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Short question and answer session on the knowledge that we have learnt today. |
Lesson 4: Our globe - Oceans and Continents
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Using the worksheets below label the continents and oceans of the world. Also place your country in context of where it is on our planet. Add the important lines and define the key new terms.
Map: A map is a 2-dimensional (flat), diagrammatical (picture) representation of an area. They are drawn to scale.
Globe: A sphere shaped model which represents the Earth Continent: These are the 7 large land masses that make up the Earth e.g. Asia. They include countries. Ocean: A large body of water e.g. the Pacific. Equator: An imaginary line that divides our planet into two hemispheres Border: An boundary that divides one country from another. | ||||||
Continents of the world
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Oceans of the world
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Lesson 5 & 6: Extreme world Geography
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Using the information on the slide share complete the tasks
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Lesson 7: Representing my place: Field Sketches
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Look carefully at the images below and try to identify what the important Geographical features are of each photo.
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Go through the activities on the PowerPoint and practice drawing your own field sketch.
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Peer assess each others field sketches:
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Lesson 8: The country we live in, how is it represented?
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Follow the instructions on the NearPod presentation - to be done as an interactive exercise on students' laptops.
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Lesson 9: Why is Beijing amazing?
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Watch the stimulus video for ideas about why Beijing is considered such a desirable city to visit. You will need to consider what also makes it desirable to live in.
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Create a 1 min 30 second persuasive video encouraging someone to come and live in Beijing. You will need to structure this correctly and before you record the video you will need to write down your ideas in your notebook.
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Lesson 10: People around the world - Questionnaire
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How could you find out more about people’s connections to the world? Brainstorm ideas. |
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Using Microsoft 365 Forms:
Design a questionnaire to find out where people are from and how they are connected to other places
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Send out the form to one person in the class and complete their questionnaire. Feedback on experience of answering questions.
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