How are the British Isles Divided?

Exploring Britain LO: TO DESCRIBE HOW THE BRITISH ISLES IS DIVIDED

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Will be able to identify the UK’s countries/ nations and their capital cities

Wil be able to explain countries in the British isles, UK and Great Britain

Will be able to locate areas using regions and districts.

Starter - What can you remember fromCheck last lesson?

How well did you do? your answers

Information

Glossary Trade: buying and selling goods Border: a boundary or dividing line

Building borders Today’s lesson investigates how the British Isles have been divided up 8000 years ago if you looked down at the British Isles. What do you think you would see?

Britain was one country with no borders

However over time, different tribes arrived.

They began fighting over things like land, trade and religion.

Unfortunately, people could not settle their differences and borders were built between different areas.

They still exist today.

Let’s discuss

Understanding

To summarise British Isles: The United Kingdom (UK) and Republic of Ireland

Complete the country sorting task The UK: 4 countries (nations) England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Great Britain: England, Scotland and Wales

What do all these flowers have in common?

England

Scotland

United Kingdom Union Jack

Northern Ireland

Watch this short video https://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=F59tB1yLWNQ

Wales

Challenge: Each nation has a Saint representing it, research the Saint for each nation and the date it is celebrated.

Understanding So far we have learnt that the UK is divided into 4 Countries (nations)

England is divided into regions. The government use these regions for national statistics (crime, employment and school results)

Regions are then divided into counties

We can go further still and divided the counties into districts. What district do you think The Brades lodge will be in?

So where do you live?

• Which country in the British Isles do you live in • What country or nation do you live in • Which region do you live in?

• Which county do you live in • Which district (what is your local council) • What is your nearest town?

• What are three features of your local area?

Jo Reynolds, teacher at the Brades Lodge School, which is located in: • British Isles • Great Britain • England • West Midlands • West Midlands • Sandwell • Oldbury/ Tividale • Features: residential, hilly landscape, good transport links (Motorway jnc 2, train & bus stations.