Is it possible to climb a mountain in a polar region?

EASTERSIDE ACADEMY Year 3 and 4 – Is it possible to climb a mountain in a polar region? (4) Memorable Experience  Climbing Wall National Curriculum PoS – Geography Location Knowledge  Identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle, the Prime/Greenwich Meridian and time zones (including day and night).

Human and physical geography  Describe and understand key aspects of: physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle.  Human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water.

National Curriculum PoS – Science  ECO - Climate change Working scientifically  Asking relevant questions and using different types of scientific enquiries to answer them.  Setting up simple practical enquiries, comparative and fair tests.  Making systematic and careful observations and, where appropriate, taking accurate measurements using standard units, using a range of equipment, including thermometers and data loggers.  Gathering, recording, classifying and presenting data in a variety of ways to help in answering questions.  Recording findings using simple scientific language, drawings, labelled diagrams, keys, bar charts, and tables.

Water Cycle  Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature.

Connect Explicitly connect to key concept revisited.

KS1 - What makes a habitat a home?

Key Concepts Investigate patterns (Geography) / Work Scientifically (Science) Declarative Knowledge – Geography

Declarative Knowledge – Science

To know that most mountains are formed from earth’s tectonic plates colliding together. (Revisit Tectonic plates from Pompeii)

To know that the water cycle describes how water evaporates from the surface of the earth, rises into the atmosphere, cools and condenses into rain or snow in clouds, and falls again to the surface as precipitation.

There are five basic kinds of mountains: Fold Mountains (Folded Mountains) Fault-block Mountains (Block Mountains) Dome Mountains.

Volcanic Mountains.

Plateau Mountains.

To know that there are 3 key features of a mountain Summit (Top) Slope (side) Valley (Bottom)

Outcome: Diary entries/Race programme. Upper KS2. Assembly for the school- links to Eco Warriors (audience)

EASTERSIDE ACADEMY Year 3 and 4 – Is it possible to climb a mountain in a polar region? (4) Cross curricular- See Geog Vocabulary Subject Specific (This may include some Tier 3) Evaporation Precipitation Condensation

To know that a mountain range is a series of hills in a line and connected by high ground.

To know that Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world and the Himalayas are a mountain range which are the boundary between Nepal and China.

Sir Edmund Hillary was the first mountaineer to climb Mount Everest in 1953.

To know that climate change is a long term change to a climate pattern. (Human contribution- gases link to eco) To know that global temperatures are rising- Impact upon snow/ice. (Link to Power of reading book- Frozen North) To know that climate change is when there is a big difference to climate patterns over a long period of timenot happened since end of the ice age over 10, 0000 years ago.

To know that land use is an important driver of climate change.

Land use- The most northern mountain range in the world, the Challenger Mountains, is located in the northwest region of the island. ... Auyuittuq National Park, located on Baffin Island's Cumberland Peninsula, features the many terrains of Arctic wilderness such as fjords, glaciers, and ice fields.

To know that the land use has changed locally- school grounds and compare it to a mountain rangeHimalayas.

Vocabulary Subject Specific (This may include some Tier 3) Fold Mountains (Folded Mountains) Fault-block Mountains (Block Mountains) Dome Mountains.

Volcanic Mountains.

Plateau Mountains.

Summit (Top) Slope (side)

Outcome: Diary entries/Race programme. Upper KS2. Assembly for the school- links to Eco Warriors (audience)

EASTERSIDE ACADEMY Valley (Bottom) Climate Region

Year 3 and 4 – Is it possible to climb a mountain in a polar region? (4)

Tier 2 Observe, record, remember, predict, relate, summarise, transfer, discover, locate, compare, debate, justify (land uses).

Procedural Knowledge (Skills) Geography    

Name and locate the Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle and date time zones.

Describe some of the characteristics of these geographical areas.

Explain own views about locations, giving reasons.

Describe key aspects of, physical geography, including: rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes and the water cycle.

Human geography, including: settlements and land use.

 Revisit Includes on-going retrieval of what is not currently being taught.

Continents (KS1 / Year 3/4) Other Cross-Curricular Links History- Edmund Hillary / Land uses.

Outdoor Learning Opportunities

School environment- Plans of school grounds. Puddles in the playground etc.

Power of Reading Text Pugs of the Frozen North by Philip Reeve ( Made own sequence)

Outcome: Diary entries/Race programme. Upper KS2. Assembly for the school- links to Eco Warriors (audience)