My Place

Lesson 1: Introducing Geography

•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

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.

Global Bingo
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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.

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.

Cover page example

Lesson 2: Geographical facts

To practice finding geographical facts.
To explore different parts of the world.
To be able to follow 'hints' and discover answers.

Watch the following video and see if you can answer the questions? What is your Geographical knowledge like?

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.

Geographical knowledge race
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Game: Can you name a country that begins with every letter of the alphabet?

Lesson 3: Introduction to Maps

To know what a map is and how it can show your place
To understand what is meant by STACK
To be able to create a simple map and be able to STACK it

Place is very important to our identity…

Why?
How about where you live?
How about your school?
So how could you show your route to school?
Try drawing it WITHOUT using any full words
Now swap with someone else – could they understand how to travel that route without you explaining it?

Introducing maps - Year 6 from Steven Heath

Introducing maps
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Hand outline for STACK
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Short question and answer session on the knowledge that we have learnt today.

Lesson 4: Our globe - Oceans and Continents

To understand the differences between maps and globes; continents and oceans.
To be able to complete an atlas map using the principles of STACK.
To be able to use the new vocabulary in sentences about our globe.

How good is your knowledge of the country that you live in? Can you identify places? Using Geoguessr Challenge the class to see how good they are.

Geoguessr

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.

Oceans and Continents Worksheet
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China's location in the world
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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

Oceans of the world

Review the Oceans and continets of our world by playing the following game.

Oceans and continets game

Lesson 5 & 6: Extreme world Geography

To know the most extreme/biggest physical and human features of the world
To recognise the locations of these places
To be able to construct a map of these using the principles of STACK
To use simple sentences to describe locations

See if you can identify these famous places around the world?

Geoguessr

Using the information on the slide share complete the tasks

The world's largest and biggest from Steven Heath

The world
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World Map Outline
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Review knowledge for a brief test at the end of the two lessons

Largest and biggest

Longest rivers

Most populated cities

Lesson 7: Representing my place: Field Sketches

To know the main features of my place
To understand how to represent them on a field sketch
To be able to create my own field sketches

Look carefully at the images below and try to identify what the important Geographical features are of each photo.

Go through the activities on the PowerPoint and practice drawing your own field sketch.

Field sketches and how to draw them from Steven Heath

Field Sketches and how to draw them
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Peer assess each others field sketches:

Lesson 8: The country we live in, how is it represented?

To know what is meant by ‘representations’
To understand how China might be represented
To be able to reflect on what represents China for me

Using Plickers - conduct a short quiz (poll) to determine how 'Chinese' the class feels.

Button Text

Follow the instructions on the NearPod presentation - to be done as an interactive exercise on students' laptops.

Lesson 9: Why is Beijing amazing?

To recognize some of the attributes that people find good about Beijing.
To learn how to use persuasive writing to support your ideas.

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.

FlipGrid

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.

Where should they live?
Why should they come here?
What benefits are there?
Why will they like it?
You should talk about all the things that you think are positive about the city that we live in.