Last week was spent immersing ourselves into our new Autumn expedition. We started off the week engaging in an Amazon virtual reality experience! We were not keen on the tarantulas but loved flying above the canopy layer and delving deeper into the forest! We worked as geographers exploring the world map focusing on geographical zones of the world. We used resources to help us such as an atlas and a globe whereby we recapped continents, tropics, lines of latitude and longitude, hemispheres and time zones. Did you know we are in the Greenwich meridian? We found it really interesting exploring time zones at the opposite side of the Earth to us!
We then zoomed in on South America looking at the 12 sovereign states (countries that rule themselves). A couple of us even knew the British overseas territories that are part of South America. Next up, we learnt about human and physical features with a focus in Colombia, When exploring on Google Earth we particularly noticed Colombia had a vast range of physical features from emerald green mountains to Caribbean white sandy beaches. We have asked miss to visit Colombia on our next school trip… we can dream!
Hope you have enjoyed reading all about our geography learning,
~Crew Mcloughlin Bloggers
