This document provides instructions for an activity where students classify and locate important physical and human geographical features of the United Kingdom. Students are asked to sort cards into physical and human geography categories and then use atlases to label blank maps with rivers, mountains, cities, roads, and railways of the UK. Finally, students practice describing these features to each other without looking at the maps. The goal is for students to learn to identify and place key physical and human aspects of the UK's geography.

1. What is important about the UK? What are the important features of the UK?

2. What are the important features of the UK? Learning Objectives: To classify features that relate to human or physical geography To use an atlas and a blank map to locate key features of the UK Key Words: physical geography human geography

3. Starter – UK or Not? There are some images around the classroom that may or may not be in the UK. You have to decide whether you think each one is in the ‘UK or Not’. You should also write down where you think each image is on your recording sheet.

4. UK or not?

5. UK or not?

6. UK or not?

7. UK or not?

8. UK or not?

9. UK or not? How many did you get right?

10. What types of features do we need to show on a map? Did we get any of these? Rivers Mountains Cities Roads Railways

11. Task... In pairs, cut out and read through your cards. Now sort them into 2 groups; features that relate to physical geography and those that relate to human geography. One girl in each pair should be number 1 and the other number 2

12. Task... All the number 1’s should now sit together and use the atlases to label your physical geography map All the number 2’s should sit together and use the atlases to label your human geography map

13. Task... Go back to your pairs... Number 1 should now try to describe to number 2 what is on her map. You should try to do this without showing each other the maps. When you have done as much as you can, swap over.

14. Plenary Without looking at your maps, how many of these features could you label?