The Lake District
Year 4 - Geography - Summer 2
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Core Learning
Core Learning
The UK
Name and locate counties and cities of the UK.
Name and locate national parks within the UK and define what this term means with a focus on the Lake District.
Name and locate the topographical features of the Lake District including hills, mountains, coasts and rivers using the eight points of a compass, four figure grid references, map symbols and keys.
Define the term tourism and understand where people like to go for their holidays and why.
Explore what makes the Lake District a popular tourist destination.
Describe and understand key aspects of mountain formation.
Create a physical model to represent contour lines on a map. Understand that contour lines represent the topography of the land surface in a particular region.
Make reference to valleys in the Lake District and understand the difference between a dry valley (Findon) and one with a river running through.
Use the 8 points of a compass, 4 and 6 figure grid references, map symbols and keys to interpret an OS map. Apply this to an OS map of the Lake District to locate key human and physical features.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
county
city
national park
compass points
grid references
map symbols
keys
tourism
contour lines
What came before?
What came before?
In Year 3, children develop an understanding of how political, topographic and relief maps shows different human and physical features e.g rivers, mountains and lakes.
What comes after?
What comes after?
In Year 6, children compare the valleys studied in the UK with Yosemite in the USA.
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