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The Seven Continents YEAR 1: The Seven Continents Contents Include: Europe Antarctica Asia Africa North and South America Australia Please Note: The activities included in this pack are suggestions only. Teachers should adapt the lessons to ensure they are pitched correctly for their pupils. For an outline of the content included in Year 1 Geography please see: History and Geography Sequence Lesson 1: The Seven Continents This lesson is the first in a series of lessons that introduce children to the Seven Continents. During this lesson children should begin to understand that continents are very large areas of land. This may be a difficult concept for young children to grasp, but foundations can be laid for future understanding. The lesson should include lots of images, models and video where appropriate. Children should have some experience of simple maps from previous units of work. A globe can be introduced at this stage as a map made into the shape of Earth. There are seven continents on Earth: Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Antarctica. There are five oceans on Earth: The Pacific Ocean, The Atlantic Ocean, The Indian Ocean, The Southern Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. See page 120 of What Your Year 1 Child Needs to Know Learning Objective Core Knowledge Activities for Learning Related Assessment Vocabulary Questions Prior learning assessment: Ask children to label a blank map of the Earth What can you tell me To begin to recognise A globe shows where world with the names of continents or any other information they Globe about this globe? already know. Ensure children know it is just a check on what they continents and oceans. there is land and sea on already know and that it is fine to leave the page blank if they don’t Asia Earth. know anything yet. Europe What can you tell me Africa about this world map? Using a globe, show children the land masses and the seas. Label a A continent is a large large map of the world on the whiteboard asking children to repeat North America area of land. the names of the continents. Explain that a continent is a large area of South America What is a continent? land. Show children images of animals, people and places from each Australia continent. There are seven Antarctica Do you know the continents on Earth. Create a ‘passport’ or information book that children will add to Pacific names of any of the during each lesson of this unit. A labelled outline of the continents Atlantic world’s oceans? could be used as a front cover. This could be drawn by the children, Indian traced or an outline could be provided for labelling. Southern Children could write letters to relevant embassies or organisations to Arctic ask questions about specific countries. They may receive some interesting responses. Resources: Video of children singing the names of the continents to the tune of Frère Jacques. BBC Class Clip - Climate zones across the world Interactive Map - National Geographic Google Earth is a fantastic interactive resource to show children the Earth 1 2 Lesson 2: Europe In this lesson children will learn about the continent of Europe. The most important thing for children to understand is that we live in Europe. The continent of Europe is one of the smaller continents on Earth. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and north. A border with Asia lies to the east of Europe. Within the continent of Europe there are many cities such as Paris, Rome and London. In some parts of Europe the weather can be warm and sunny in the summer, particularly along the Mediterranean coast. In other more northern parts of Europe, the climate is cooler and winters can be cold and snowy. Animal habitats in Europe have largely been influenced by humans and there are few areas of natural wilderness compared to some of the larger continents. See page 125 of What Your Year 1 Child Needs to Know Learning Objective Core Knowledge Activities for Learning Related Assessment Questions Vocabulary Recap previous learning asking children to explain what Where is Europe on this map/globe? To recognise the We live in the continent of they know so far about continents. continent continent of Europe. Europe. Europe What can you tell me about Europe? Explain that we live in the continent of Europe. Identify Antarctica Europe on a globe and on a map of the world. Identify the Europe is one of the world’s climate How is northern Europe different to Atlantic Ocean. Discuss why the northern areas of Europe smaller continents. are cooler than the southern areas. Identify some of the ocean southern Europe? countries located within Europe, particularly those with border In southern Europe the specific relevance to the members of your class. North What animals can be found in climate can be warm and South Europe? sunny, but in northern Europe Identify some key physical and human features of Europe East the climate is cooler. such as the shape of Italy, a peninsula that forms the West Can you describe a European animal shape of a boot. Identify different landscape in Europe mountain and the habitat within which it lives? Extension: Mammals that live such as the Alpine Mountains and the flat Northern plain European plains. Label a map of Europe with relevant in Europe include badgers, place names or illustrations. Find out about European bats and hedgehogs. animals and their habitats. Resources: European Wildlife - A Pan-European non-profit organization dedicated to nature conservation and landscape protection. Teacher subject knowledge: European Physical Geography from National Geographic Education. Rewilding Europe – A movement to re-establish areas of wilderness in Europe – gallery contains some beautiful images. 3 Europe 4 European Animals Badger Bat Hedgehog Meles meles Common Noctule - Nyctalus noctula Erinaceus europaeus Hedgehogs are nocturnal. They live in Badgers live underground in setts. Bats are the only mammals that can hedgerows and gardens. They eat They eat small animals, plant roots fly for a long time. They mostly live slugs, worms, beetles and other and fruit. Badgers are nocturnal. in forests. They eat insects. insects. Mallard Adder Toad Anas platyrhynchos Vipera berus Bufo bufo Mallards, or wild ducks, live in Adders live in different habitats Toads often live in forests or fields, wetlands and eat plants and small including meadows and hedgerows. not always near water. They walk animals. Male mallards have glossy They eat small animals. They are slowly or jump using all four legs. green heads but females are mainly venomous snakes, but their bites Toads eat woodlice, slugs, beetles brown. would not normally kill a human. and swallow their food whole. 5 Human and Physical Features of Europe Eiffel Tower Eurotunnel Leaning Tower of Pisa The Eurotunnel runs The Leaning Tower of Pisa The Eiffel Tower is in between France and is in Italy. France. England. Alpine Mountains The Rhine Woodland The Rhine is a river that A long time ago Europe The Alpine mountain range runs through Germany and was covered in woodland. stretches across eight two other countries in A quarter of Europe is countries in Europe. Europe. now woodland. 6 Lesson 3: Antarctica Antarctica is the world’s southernmost continent. The word ‘Antarctica’ comes from a Greek word meaning ‘opposite the north’. Antarctica is a very cold continent and although there are some people temporarily living there for research, nobody lives there permanently. There is a post office on Antarctica, but letters can take up to six weeks to be delivered. Antarctica is home to penguins, seals and other animals that are suited to very cold climates. The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was in Antarctica and was recorded by a satellite at -93.2 degrees Celsius. The geographic South Pole is located in Antarctica. The explorer, Roald Amundsen, was the first person to reach the South Pole in 1911. See page 133 of What Your Year 1 Child Needs to Know Learning Objective Core Knowledge Activities for Learning Related Assessment Vocabulary Questions Recap previous learning and ensure children understand that Can you locate Antarctica To recognise the Antarctica is the southernmost a continent is a large area of land. Ensure children are able to North Pole on this map/globe? identify the North and South Poles. continent of Antarctica. continent on Earth. South Pole Explain that the most southern continent is called Antarctica. What can you tell me Locate Antarctica on a globe and a world map and discuss how Antarctica The continent of Antarctica is very about Antarctica? its location is the reason why it is so cold. Show children tilt cold and icy. images or video clips of Antarctica. Discuss what children orbit would see/feel/hear if they went there. What can you tell me There are very few plants and summer about the seasons in animals living in Antarctica because Using a globe, show children that the Earth’s tilt results in winter Antarctica? it is so cold. Antarctica having a sunny summertime for half of the year, minus (in relation but then a dark winter for the other half of the year. Even to degrees) What can you tell me though the Earth is orbiting the sun and revolving, its tilt about plants and animals remains the same. This causes Antarctica to face the sun for in Antarctica? half of the year, but face away during the other half of the year. Find out about animals that can be found in Antarctica. The land is often colder than the sea, so more life can be found in the icy waters surrounding the continent.
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