Blog by Tag: Geography

In geography, our topic is all about mountains. This week, we have learned all about the Andes mountain range in South America. We have identified that the Andes is the longest mountain range in the world, whilst the Himalayas is the highest mountain range in the world. Team Badgers have learned…

This week in geography, we have been learning about multi-cultural Cardiff. We have learnt about the yearly Mela Festival they have and how it celebrates different cultures and ethnicities, to bring everyone together. As our task, we designed a poster to advertise next year's…

In Geography, Rabbits have learnt what it is like to live in a city. We have explored our local environment and have distinguished between physical and human features of Lichfield and Birmingham.

This week in Geography, we have been looking at the climate in the Gobi Desert, including how much rainfall there is across the year, as well as how much the temperature varies. We were very surprised by our research and enjoyed plotting our data onto this graph! 

Orchard have begun their new unit in Geography this week all about deserts. They have been learning how to identify a desert and what the climate is like there.

In Geography, we have been learning all about Keswick. The children looked at the reasons as to why people visit Keswick. 

Our topic this term in geography is rivers and the children are enjoying learning all about the formation of rivers and the cycle of water around the world. With a focus on the river Indus, the children have began to look at the upper course of a river, where the source of a river starts and…

Our Geography unit this half term is all about earthquakes!

This week we were understanding why earthquakes happen. We looked at the parts of the Earth's crust which are visible and which are not, what tectonic plates are, and why New Zealand may have earthquakes.

This is such an exciting…

In Geography, we have been learning all about the tourism industry and thinking about what makes someone a 'tourist.' We have been looking at different places that people like to go on holiday, such as the mountains, a seaside, or a city, and what kids of things tourists like to do in these…

This week we have been learning all about Coastal Landforms, including beaches, bays, headlands and cliffs. We have enjoyed hearing about how these different coastal landforms are caused by erosion, and have drawn beautiful pictures to demonstrate our learning! Next week, we are going to be…

Sunflowers have created a map of the classroom and worked in partners to follow their maps to find hidden objects around the classroom. 

This week in Geography, we have been learning about migration; what is is, why people migrate, and how this can affect a population. We have been looking at 'dense' and 'sparse' populations, and the many reasons why people might migrate from dense to sparse, or vice versa. We have been so…