Something that is natural has not been changed by humans.

An aerial photograph is a picture of an object or place that has been taken from above.

A satellite is an object in space that orbits or circles around a bigger object in space. These an be natural like the moon or artificial ones like the International Space Station.

Local means an area which the people who live there are familiar with, and encounter in their everyday lives.

Key physical and human features of Jamaica

Geography

The Caribbean location and UK connections

Jamaica's location and climate

Similarities and differences: Kingston in Jamaica

Farming in Jamaica

Going on holiday to Jamaica

This unit provides a foundation for 'Europe: How diverse are its landscapes and places' and 'Europe: What is it like to live in northern Italy', which further extend pupils’ knowledge and understanding of distant places and how to investigate them at continental and regional scales.

This unit builds on 'The UK: What kind of place is is?' and 'Local area: Why is (our place) special', extending and deepening pupils’ place knowledge and understanding through the study of Jamaica and a specific small Jamaican locality. It develops geographical vocabulary and skills, enabling pupils to identify similarities and differences.

This unit explores what it is like to live in a contrasting locality by studying Jamaica and Tanzania. Pupils investigate location, climate, and key physical and human features, and compare each place with their own through maps, images and geographical vocabulary.

Contrasting locality: what is it like to live in Jamaica/Tanzania?

Which of the following are physical features and which are human features?

Which of these is not a physical feature?

What could you see on a satellite image that you could not see on a globe?

Which two physical features are shown in this aerial photograph?

Which of the following is a human feature that you would not find in Jamaica?

Which of these features would you not find in Jamaica?

something that has not been changed by humans

something that has been changed by humans

something that has been changed by animals

Order these from closest to furthest away

Which continents can you identify on this map?

Key physical and human features of Jamaica

Lesson outcome