lo: to recognise the basic layout of the earth and begin to use an atlas to locate places

LO: to recognise the basic layout of the Earth and begin to use an atlas to locate places.

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Continents

Let’s see what we remember

Task...On your blank map of the world carefully

colour each continent a different colour.Draw a key with a ruler to show what

continent each colour represents (example shown below)

South America

How many oceans?Are there more oceans than continents? Stand up if you think yes. Heads on the table if you think no.

Task...Add the oceans neatly to your map of the

world.

Using the AtlasAt the back of the atlas is an index. Use this to

find the following places. You need to find the country listed alphabetically and turn to the page number given. If it is small you may need to also use the grid reference given (B1,) to help find it.

Add the following to your map:New Zealand Tasmania Indonesia Taiwan,China Pakistan Iraq ItalyAfghanistan Germany Kenya

GreenlandIceland Chile Argentina Cuba.

EXT: Try to find 5 countries for all the continents except two.

Round the world- All stand upIn turn you will be given a letter- I

want a continent, country or ocean beginning with that letter. If you don’t know one sit down and we move on to find the Geography Brain