Video: What is Europe like?

﻿Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Miss Harris, and I'm going to be teaching you your geography lesson today. We have got a lesson jam packed with knowledge all about Europe, because we've been learning about the seven continents. So let's jump right in. We have got our retrieval practise today. We've done that, a retrieval practise remember was our quiz. So that's when we remembered all of our knowledge, we retrieved it. We remembered it from our brain. So you should have already done that. We are now going to move on to ordering the continents in size. We're going to analyse a map of Europe, and then we're going to look at what foods you can eat, and see what landmarks are in Europe. So we've got a busy lesson. So to get started, you will need your exercise book or some paper, a pencil, and most importantly, your brain. So go and get those things if you don't have them already. Pause the video now. Well done, great. Let's get started. So we are geographers. Can you remember what your geographer is? So a geographer is a special, who studies the? Can you remember? A geographer is a special scientist who studies the earth, the land, and the people. Great, let's check. Geographers are types of scientists, so special types of scientists, who study the earth, the land, and the people. Great job, if you've got that right, because remember, we are geographers. And we are studying the seven continents. Here, we have got our 100% sheet, which is all the knowledge we are learning this term. We're going to be learning this part, these key facts today about Europe and learning about the size of the continent and how many people live there. You might want to learn the seven continents and learn all of these facts by taking a picture of the 100% sheet. Let's look at our star words. Stand behind your chair and get your hands ready like we did last time, are you ready? Star words, star words, star words. Can you have a go at doing that? Star words, star words, star words, are you ready? Currency. Currency. Currency is what we use to buy things. So currency is a system of money. It's a system of money. Great. Size, your turn. Size. Landmark, your turn. Landmark. A landmark something that you can see. So Big Ben is a landmark. Country, your turn. Country. Good. Europe. So do your earth. Europe. Population, your turn. Population. Population is how many people live there. Population is how many people? Great. Continent, your turn. Continent. Good, sit back down. Can you sit down, ready? Three, two, one. Did you sit down before I got to one? Well done. So here, we've got a picture of our map. Remember that Earth is a sphere shape like this. And we flatten it down so that we can have a map like this. So we can compare where the continents are and the countries in relation to one another. We can also look at the oceans and seas that surround the countries. So here, I'm going to say a continent. And I'd like you to see if you can remember where it is. So can you point to Europe? Good, so Europe is here. Well done. Can you point to Asia? Asia is here. Well done. Can you point to North America? Good, it's over here. Can you point to Antarctica? At the bottom, great. Can you point to Australia? So, there. Can you point to Africa? Good, that's it. And now see South America? Good, that one's over here. Well done. Now, your first job, so we've got our little head with our cogs and our brain because we need to remember what the continents look like. So here you are going to order them from largest to smallest. Can you have a look at ordering them. So here, Asia is the biggest continent. Continent. And Australia here, is the smallest. Sorry, I'm trying to put myself in a good place. There we go. Australia is this smallest place. Can you write down the numbers and put the continents in order from largest to smallest? So you're going to need to pause the video and have a go at that now. Well done. So now can you get your green pen or you can get a kind of pen, any kind of pen 'cause we're going to mark it. So you need to get your pen or your pencil. Any type of colour. And we're going to tick or fix. Tick means that you got it right. Fixing means you're going to fix it. Okay? So Asia is the largest continent. So that's number one. You can get that tick. Number two is Africa. Give yourself a tick if you got that right. Number three is North America. That's the third largest country. South America is the fourth largest country. Number five Antarctica is that third smallest country. Europe is the second smallest country. And then lastly, number seven Australia, is the smallest country. So give yourself a tick for those or fix them if you got them wrong. So make sure you pause the video if you're going to fix the now. Okay, moving on. We're learning all about Europe today. So here you can see I've got a map of Europe, and you can see all the labels for the different countries. The blue arrow is pointing to a very special country. Do you know what country it's pointing to? Can you see the label? It's pointing to the United Kingdom. My turn, your turn. United Kingdom. The United Kingdom is where we live because we live in Europe. We live in? The United Kingdom is in Europe. That's one of the really important facts we need to know, that the United Kingdom is in Europe. And it's the second smallest continent as well. So make sure you know that one too. Now, Europe, Europeans, they are people from Europe. So we are all European because we are from Europe. We conquered much of the world a long time ago. So that means we discovered a lot of the countries all the way around the world. And humans did that about 35,000 years ago. So we go back to a 100% sheet. Do you see it? Humans first travelled to Europe 35,000 years ago. So that's a really long time ago that they found Europe. So it's a really old place that they have discovered. How many people do you think live in Europe? I Shall tell you. 741 million people. How many people? 741 million people live in Europe. That's so many people, isn't it? So many people. So what we are going to do now is we're going to watch a quick video all about Europe. So what we're going to do now is now we've had a quick look around Europe from that lovely video. We are going to write down now three countries that are in Europe. I've written them at the top here. I'd like you to find the country that begins with R, the country that begins with P and the country that begins with D. There are 44 countries in Europe, 44 countries. How many? 44. How many? 44, good. I'd like to write down those three. Find the one that begins with R, find the one that begins with P and the one that begins with D. Pause the video and write down those three countries now. Okay, well done. Let's check. So we've got Russia, Poland and Denmark. Hopefully you found all three of those there. Give yourself a big tick to check that you got it right. Or fix it if you got it wrong. Okay, well done. So in Europe you can go visit some wonderful countries and have lots of delicious food. You might recognise this first one. This is a? A pizza, yeah. You can eat pizza in Italy. I know lots of us love eating pizza here in England. But when you go to Italy, you can have a lovely freshly made pizza. You could go to Germany and have something called a Currywurst, which is a sausage that's got Curry powder on the top, and it's smothered in ketchup. I've been to Germany and it was really delicious. And sometimes people eat it with chips, really awesome. In Switzerland, you can have cheese fondue, which is a big pot full of melted cheese. And you dip things like bread inside and other lovely things. And it gets covered in cheese. You can see that they've got big sticks and they dip them into the cheese. Then we've got here, this is moussaka, which is a little bit like a lasagna, but you use either aubergine or potatoes and it's got meat in it as well or tomatoes. It's a bit like a lasagna, but you use vegetables most mostly. It's really yummy. So now we're going to move on to look at what currency is. So my turn, your turn. Currency. Currency. So currency is a system of money. So when we have currency, it's what we use to buy things. So in England, we use this called a pound coin. We use the pound. We use? Pounds, good. So our currency is pounds. So we use things like 50 pence and one penguins. They're all equal to pounds. So you might say, I have 10 pounds, or I have five pounds. We buy things using pounds. But in the rest of Europe, they use something called the Euro. Called the? So in Europe they use the Euro. They use the? The Euro, great. So we've got here like a 1 cent, which is almost like a one P. We've got 20 cents, which is similar to a 20 P, it's a similar thing. And we've got two Euros and one Euro coin. So this one Euro I coin is similar to our Pound coins. In Europe, they use Euros. In the United Kingdom and England Pound coins. Great. So currency is a system of money and it's what we use to buy things. Now we're going to dive right in to some landmarks that you could visit. A landmark is a name that we use to describe where you are. So a landmark is how you recognise where you are. So if you are in London and you see Big Ben, you know that you are in London, cause you can see Big Ben. Now we are going to look through a few landmarks that you could visit and you need to remember the country that they are in 'cause I'm going to quiz you about at the end. So here we've got the Coliseum in Italy. The Coliseum is an amphitheatre made of stone and concrete. And it was built thousands of years ago, really long time ago, and it's really old. And they used it for and to build for entertainment. And gladiators used to fight inside the amphitheatre. And the Romans used to sit and watch. So it's almost like a place that you go to be entertained. And that's in Italy, the Coliseum's in Italy. And here we have got the Sagrada Familia, which is in Spain. Now this is a really important building because Antoni Gaudí is the artist that created the Sagrada Família. They started building it in 1882, which is hundreds of years ago. They started building it hundreds of years ago and it's still not finished. They still haven't finished building it. It's taken hundreds and hundreds of years to finish because it's so delicate. There's so many wonderful features to it. And sadly, because it was so long ago, Antoni Gaudí who designed it, he died. So he can't see the finished product, which is really sad. But in Spain, they are continuing to build it because it's a really important landmark in Spain. Where is it? It's in Spain. Great. Now we've got the Eiffel tower. The Eiffel tower used to be the tallest building in the world. But sadly, that got changed. There are lots of other taller buildings now. It was built as part of an exhibition. As part of an? Exhibition. That means it's like a show for the building. It was in a fun fair, a world fair, and they used it. It was built by hand. Now you can find the Eiffel tower in France. Where can you find it? You'll find it in France. What's it called? It's called the Eiffel tower. Good. You can go all the way to the top of the Eiffel tower too. Now this is the Brandenburg gate, which is in Germany. It's really famous part of German history. I'm not going to tell you too much about it because it's quite intricate history using the Brandenburg gate, but it's a really famous place that you can visit. You can see, right if you look really closely here, these little posts, that's where the cars can go through the middle. Now people used to go through it. But you could see it used to be really small. You can imagine how big is. This is huge, I've been there, and it is huge, it's so tall. You have to squint to look at it. And that is Germany. The Brandenburg gate is in Germany. And here we've got The Parthenon which is in Greece. Now this is a really famous place that you could visit in Greece. They were really proud of it. People in Greece are proud of it because it was one of the greatest architectural accomplishments. That means how they built back then, it was built almost 2000 years ago. They didn't have things like Degas and cranes to lift the heavy bricks. They didn't have those things. So it's amazing that they built these huge towers out of stone without all of the machinery that we have now. So they're really proud of that. And that's in Greece. And lastly, we have something you might have heard of before and you may have even been on it. It's called the Euro tunnel. It's called the? Now the Euro tunnel is an underground train that goes underneath the sea. And it can take you from England to France under the sea. So it doesn't go over the sea on a bridge, it goes up down to the bottom, under the sea, and then back up onto the land. Now the Euro tunnel is 31 miles long. It doesn't take very long to get from England to France. But this is quite new. It's quite a new train that you can go on. Maybe you've been on it before. So the Euro tunnel is in England and it's also in France 'cause it goes from England to France. Now, here is your job. Are you ready? This is your quiz. Let's look at this for myself here. You are going to write in your book, the name of the place. So here we've got Coliseum. So you're going to write Coliseum then the number one, and you're going to write the name of the country that the Coliseum is. So here we've got our options. We've got Spain, England or France. I'm sure you can guess which one that is. France, Italy, Greece, and Germany. So write the name of the place, the number, and then write the country. Pause the video and have a go at that now. Okay, so we've got the Coliseum, number one, is in Italy. Use you coloured pencil to tick it off or to mark it, tick or fix. Then we've got the Sagrada Família. So then we've got here number two, which is Spain. The Eiffel tower, which is in France. The Brandenburg gate, which is in Germany. The Parthenon in Greece. And the Euro tunnel lastly, which is from England to France. Tick or fix those. Pause the video and tick them or fix them. Well done, fantastic. Now, very lastly, the last part. Do you know who this is? This is Queen Elizabeth the second. This is the queen. Can you do this? The Queen. Can you put your crown on? The Queen of our country, of England. She's the queen of England, and she's the most famous queen in the whole world. The queen is a monarch. A monarch is a really important person in a country that they're in charge of the country. So the queen is in charge of our country. Now she is the sovereign of many other countries as well. We are going to read this together and you are going to answer this question. How many countries is the Queen Elizabeth, the sovereign of? So she's a really important figure, a really important person in other countries as well. And we were to find out how many countries there are. So here, let's read it together. Queen Elizabeth, the second is the queen of England. She is also the sovereign of 15 countries. I'll read the rest. A sovereign is another word for a powerful leader. She is the most famous Monarch. So the most famous queen in the whole world. There are 12 monarchs, so kings or queens in Europe. So how many countries is Queen Elizabeth the sovereign of? How many countries? Did you say 15? If you did, you're right. She's the sovereign. Remember, sovereign is a powerful leader. She's the powerful leader of 15 other countries. And we can see them here on our map. So she is the queen of our country of England, but also of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. She's the sovereign of lots of countries in the Caribbean. See them here, these little countries here like Barbados and St. Lucia. She's also a Monarch for a sovereign of Australia, a powerful leader of Australia. You have done a fantastic job today, team. It's now time to show off all the knowledge that you have learned this lesson. Complete your Google quiz. And I'm really excited to see what you have learned. Have a wonderful rest of your day.

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In this lesson we are going to be virtually flying all across Europe, learning more about this wonderful continent. We will be learning all about how many people live in Europe, what food you can eat if you visit and what places you would see. You will need a piece of paper and a pencil for this lesson. Let’s get started!

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