Learning Session Four: What are the countries in Europe like? Teaching points  Learning Outcome: To locate countries in Europe concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities. • Learning task- Use Google Earth and mapping / atlas skills. • Look at Map of Europe. – what do they know? How many countries can we find in five minutes? List, including Russia. How many countries are there? What is the difference between a country and a continent? Make a list of geographical/and a few cultural questions that we counld research to compare countries. eg Environmental – climate, Physical features - mountains, rivers, lakes, beaches Human – capital city; major cities; tourism Cultural – language; religion • Focus on Germany, Switzerland and Greece. • Do Round Robin of classrooms – ch learn about one country in each class. • 3W – Germany; 3B Greece’ 3MB Switzerland; What facts can we discover? Compare - similarities and differences. Give each child a research passport to complete for each country. Plenary ��� share facts and display Resources – holiday brochures for pictures Atlases:

Worksheet for the lesson: Learning Display: World Rivers Session 1 LO: To identify the rivers of the world and understand their geographical location Independent Activity Children to pick 2 rivers (LA to use fact sheets for guidance) to create a fact book on 2 rivers.