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Year 6

Geography in the news

I can reflect on and discuss how geography helps us to understand the world and how it works.

New
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Year 6

Geography in the news

I can reflect on and discuss how geography helps us to understand the world and how it works.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Geography is happening all around us every day.
  2. News stories often have geographical causes and geographical impacts.
  3. Geographical knowledge and skills can help us to understand the news.

Keywords

  • Supply chain - A supply chain is all of the stages involved in producing goods, transporting them and selling them to customers.

  • Migration - Migration means moving from one place to another with the intention of staying there.

  • Conflict - A conflict is a strong disagreement between people or countries which may lead to fighting.

  • Climate change - Climate change is a large-scale and long-term change in the planet’s climate, including weather patterns and average temperatures.

Common misconception

Geography is something that happens in other parts of the world not in the place where we live.

Investigate the geography in local news stories as well as stories from elsewhere in the UK and other countries.

Print off and display examples of news stories with links to geography.
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Lesson video

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6 Questions

Q1.
Which of these is not an example of precipitation?
hail
rain
snow
Correct answer: wind
Q2.
Climate change is ...
a short-term change in daily weather patterns.
Correct answer: a large-scale change in climate affecting the whole planet.
Correct answer: a long-term change in Earth's climate and average temperatures.
a small-scale local change in climate affecting one or two countries.
Q3.
A strong disagreement between people or countries that may lead to fighting is called a ...
concord.
condition.
Correct answer: conflict.
conversation.
Q4.
is moving from one place to another with the intention of staying there.
Correct Answer: migration, migrate
Q5.
Match each key term to the correct definition.
Correct Answer:climate,the average of weather conditions of a place over a period 30 years

the average of weather conditions of a place over a period 30 years

Correct Answer:greenhouse gases,heat-trapping gases that from a layer around the Earth

heat-trapping gases that from a layer around the Earth

Correct Answer:weather,day to day changes in the atmosphere

day to day changes in the atmosphere

Q6.
Which of these are possible push factors for migration?
Correct answer: being evacuated from your home because of flooding
Correct answer: fleeing your home to escape a conflict
moving to be near friends and family
starting a university course

6 Questions

Q1.
Migration means ...
Correct answer: moving from one place to another with the intention of staying there.
moving house in the same city.
going on holiday.
moving to a new country for two months.
Q2.
All of the stages involved in producing goods, transporting them and selling them to customers are called ...
Correct answer: a supply chain.
a daisy chain.
food production.
a transport network.
Q3.
Put the letters below in the right order to complete the following sentence: Geography is the study of the .
1 - w
2 - o
3 - r
4 - l
5 - d
Q4.
Which of these are geographical skills?
using maps and atlases
organising information
interpreting data
asking questions
Correct answer: all of the above
Q5.
Put the letters below in the right order to complete the following sentence: Geographical knowledge and skills can help us understand the .
1 - n
2 - e
3 - w
4 - s
Q6.
What is an atlas?
a collection of stories
Correct answer: a collection of maps in a book
a large map of the world
a globe