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Year 4

Europe: what is it like to live in northern Italy?

6 lessons

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  • Diversity
  • Europe and regions

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This unit explores northern Italy through its landscapes, transport, cities and villages. Pupils learn about everyday life and tourism in the region, and compare it with their own local area using maps, images and geographical vocabulary.

This unit introduces pupils to a region in a European country, as required by the National Curriculum, through a focused study of northern Italy. It builds on pupils’ understanding of the UK and wider Europe by enabling meaningful comparison between physical and human features, ways of life, and patterns of land use. Its placement follows regional study of the Lake District and a broader overview of Europe, giving pupils the knowledge and vocabulary they need to explore cultural and environmental similarities and differences at a regional scale.

  1. Location and transport
  2. Geographical features in northern Italy
  3. Village life in northern Italy
  4. A city in northern Italy
  5. Venice: A popular tourist destination
  6. Comparing northern Italy with my UK region

  • Some knowledge of global geography and the use of atlases to locate places.
  • Knowledge of the local region.
  • Some knowledge of using Google Earth, aerial photographs, maps, and other sources of geographical information to investigate places.
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