This document provides information about mountain environments and includes several learning activities. It begins with an introduction to the key characteristics of mountain environments and includes a virtual field trip. Students are then assigned a mini research project on a particular mountain. The rest of the document outlines several challenge activities for students to complete, including identifying mountain ranges on a map, learning fun facts about mountains, watching a video to describe feelings, and reading an extract about being stranded on a mountain. The overall purpose is to broaden students' knowledge of mountain environments through various learning exercises.

1. Mountain Environments

2. What is today’s lesson about?
Learning: What are the characteristics of a mountain
environment?
Doing: Complete a virtual fieldtrip to a mountainous
environment
Extending: What processes are acting on this
environment?
Key words: mountain, snow, ice, altitude.

3. Module Assessment
• To monitor your
progress
throughout this
module, stick the
assessment sheet
as a title page for
this section and
use throughout
this half-term.

4. Homework
• Mountain Environments Mini Research Project
• You are going to carry out a mini research project of a
particular mountain.
• Your research should include:
• Location – continent, country, mountain range
• Height/size
• Other interesting facts
• A description of the landscape
• Changes in temperature and weather conditions
• Reference list of sources used

5. What do I already know about
mountain environments?
‘High 5’ things
you already
know….

6. Mountain Challenge
• Today we will be looking at the four key
areas below.
• You will need to collect information to
broaden your knowledge of mountain
environments.
• 1. Highest point
• 2. Fun Fact Find
• 3. Magical Mountain Tour, with feeling!
• 4. Why Me!

7. 1. Where are the Mountain Ranges of the World
–(use the map at the back of you planner or share an Atlas)
• Mountain Location
Don’t forget to
label the
highest point
onto your map….

8. 2. Fun Fact Find – learn and test
Use the mini white boards to help you revise and test each other
Mountains make up about one-fifth of the world's landscape, and provide homes
to at least one-tenth of the world's people.
Heights of mountains are generally given as heights above sea level.
The world's highest peak on land is Mount Everest in the Himalayas. It is
8,850.1728 m (29,036 ft.) tall.
Ben Nevis is also the highest mountain in Great Britain.
The tallest known mountain in the solar system is Olympus Mons, located on Mars.
There are mountains under the surface of the sea!
Mountains occur more often in oceans than on land; some islands are the peaks of
mountains coming out of the water.
About 80 per cent of our planet's fresh water originates in the mountains.
All mountain ecosystems have one major characteristic in common - rapid changes
in altitude, climate, soil, and vegetation over very short distances.
Plants that may be found on mountains include conifers, oak, chestnut, maple,
junipers, stonecrops, campions, mosses, ferns and climbers.
The highest 14 mountains in the world are all found in the Himalayas.
In some mountainous areas the rivers are permanently frozen. These are called
glaciers.

9. 3. Magical Mountain Tour
• Watch the clip and write down your feelings
on the Mountains in Motion - silent movie

10. 4. Why Me!
• Stranded on top of a mountain - want
to get down, feeling scared, read the
extract from ‘The Climb’, and then climb
down!!

11. Round UP