Year 4 UK region: why is the Lake District a national park? worksheet

“Our national parks” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 4 geography unit “UK region: why is the Lake District a national park?”, for children aged 8 to 9, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 12 to 17 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Our national parks

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 4 · Geography · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can read a chart of national parks and explain why they are protected.

A Look back3 min

1.
Which way is opposite to south? Circle it.
northeastwest
2.
Look at square B2 on the map. Circle what is in it.
treechurchpond
3.
What is in square C3 on this map? Circle it.
shopschoolpark

B Watch me, then you4 min

Great Britain has 15 national parks. This chart shows how many are in each country.

Watch me

Read the bars: England has 10 and Wales has 3.

10 − 3 = 7

England has 7 more national parks than Wales.

Now you

1.
How many more national parks does England have than Scotland?

C Your turn6 min

Use the chart. Read the bars for the countries named in each question.

1.
How many national parks are there in England and Scotland together?
2.
How many national parks are there in England and Wales together?
3.
How many national parks are there in Great Britain altogether?
4.
How many more national parks does Wales have than Scotland?

Say it out loud: Which countries did you put together each time? What changed in the question?

D Spot the mistake3 min

Kit says: “Wales has 10 national parks.”

1.
How many national parks does Wales really have?

E Think deeper4 min

A national park is a large area of countryside protected by law. Its rules keep the hills, wildlife, farms and villages safe from harm.

A wide green hillside with stone walls and grazing sheep, no people

1.
The rules in a national park would stop a big factory being built on this hillside. Explain why in two or three sentences.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Our national parks · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. north If your child picks east or west, they may be thinking of sideways. North and south are opposite each other on a compass.

2. church If your child picks tree, they may have gone along the bottom to the wrong letter. Go along to B first, then up to row 2.

3. school If your child picks shop or park, they have guessed. Go along the bottom to C, then up to row 3, and name the symbol.

B

1. 8 If your child writes 12, they have added 10 and 2. Ask whether the answer should be bigger or smaller than England's 10.

C

1. 12

2. 13

3. 15

4. 1

D

1. 3 If your child writes 10, they have copied England's number onto Wales. Ask which bar belongs to which country.

E

1. Look for: A reason such as a factory spoiling the landscape or views, or harming wildlife, farms or the people who live there.

Words to use

Say“Which country's bar do you need? Find that bar first, then decide whether to add or take away.”

Instead of“Just add up every number you can see on the chart.”

After the sheet

Put 15 pens or coins on the table in three piles of 10, 3 and 2. Ask which pile is biggest and how many more it has than another pile.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Finding the Lake District(with a plan)
Shaping the Lake District(with a plan)
Why the Lake District is wet(with a plan)
Working in the Lake District(with a plan)
Pressure on the park(with a plan)

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