The most northerly major line of latitude.

The smallest of the world’s main oceans, much of it is frozen during its winter months.

This is ice which never thaws, even in summer time.

The 24 consecutive hours of sunlight during the Arctic or Antarctic summer.

The North Pole and the Arctic

Geography

The world's cold places

Locating the North and South Poles

The South Pole and the Antarctic

Arctic wildlife

Antarctic wildlife

Living in the Arctic

Living in the Antarctic

It then leads on to examine this same scale but by investigating hot places in 'Hot places: What is it like near the Equator?'. This unit also links to future understanding of land use and settlement, and builds on Earth Geometry by establishing familiarity with the Polar Circles here and with the Equator in 'Hot places: What is it like near the Equator?'.

links to work done in and around the school ground on weather and develops the idea of temperature variations and extreme cold on a global scale. 

This unit explores the North and South Poles through their locations, climates, landscapes, wildlife and ways of life. Pupils learn to compare the Arctic and Antarctic using maps, images and geographical vocabulary to describe features of cold environments.

Cold places: what is it like at the North and South Poles?

An imaginary line around the middle of Earth

An imagined circle around the North Pole that surrounds the Arctic

parts of the sea which used to come from a glacier

What is the key word for the definition 'this is ice which never thaws, even in summer time'?

the 24 consecutive hours of sunlight during the Arctic or Antarctic summer

when the moon is so bright, it looks like the sun

What is the Earth tilted on which creates the seasons?

Which hemisphere is the North Pole located in?

Which of these continents are not in the Northern hemisphere? 

The North Pole and the Arctic

Lesson outcome