The United Kingdom

Welcome to year 4 Geography. This term the children will be studying The United Kingdom.

Here is their journey and their new vocabulary mat for the term. 

During the first lesson the children looked at how the Equator splits the Earth into two hemispheres: Northern and Southern Hemispheres. In the lesson today, they were introduced to the Prime Meridian (vertical lines of longitude) which splits the Earth into two other hemispheres: Eastern and Western Hemispheres. 

They were also introduced to two lines of latitude, Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer. The two lines of latitude are north and south of the Equator and the Tropics can be located  between these two lines. Once the children identified these lines, they then compared the climate of the tropics to that of the United Kingdom.