Mountain climates

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Mountains, Rivers and Coasts Mountains - what are they?

Objectives

Geography

  • To describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including mountains and volcanoes.
  • To identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, the Equator, the northern and southern hemispheres.
  • The Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and the Arctic and Antarctic Circles.

Science

  • To find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival (air) (KS1).
  • To explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow).

Lesson Planning

Learn the correct geographical language to describe the features of mountains and find out about mountain climates.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To use geographical language to describe some features of mountain ranges and the climate experienced there.
  • To understand that we breathe oxygen from the air and that there is less oxygen in the air at high altitude.

Children will:

  • Use and understand the terms ‘snowline’ and ‘treeline’
  • Begin to understand mountain climates and how altitude affects living conditions
  • Understand that we breathe oxygen from the air and that there is less oxygen at high altitude.
  • Begin to understand the significance of the Equator and the Tropics and identify their positions.

Provided Resources

  • Mountain climates fact sheet
  • Mountain diagram
  • Mountain climates missing words game
  • Mountain climates missing words answers
  • Snowline chart
  • Mountain ranges of the world map

You Will Need

You do not need any particular resources for this session.