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Year 4

UK region: why is the Lake District a national park?

6 lessons

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  • Diversity
  • Economic activity
  • Land use and settlement
  • Mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes
  • Natural resources
  • Sustainability and climate change
  • The UK and regions
  • Water and rivers

Description

This unit explores the Lake District as a UK National Park. Pupils learn about its landscape, weather and climate, how people live and work there, and the pressures on the environment caused by visitors and land use.

This unit deepens pupils’ understanding of how people live, work and interact with distinctive UK landscapes through the study of the Lake District. Its placement supports progression from land use and physical geography, and meets the National Curriculum’s expectation to study a UK region.

  1. Our National Parks
  2. Introducing the Lake District
  3. The landscape of the Lake District
  4. Lake District weather and climate
  5. Working in the Lake District
  6. Pressure on the National Park

  • Knowledge of what a mountain is and what a lake is.
  • Familiarity with the physical and human landscape of the UK.
  • Some experience of using and annotating OS maps.
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