Year 6 Around the world in 80 days: what have we learnt about our world? worksheet

“Geography all around you” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 6 geography unit “Around the world in 80 days: what have we learnt about our world?”, for children aged 10 to 11, and takes about 21 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 29 to 36 of the year, 8 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Geography all around you

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 6 · Geography · about 21 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can sort everyday features into physical, human and environmental geography.

A Look back3 min

1.
Which direction is opposite to north?
EastSouthWest
2.
Find the church on this map. Circle its square, letter first.
A3C2B1D1
3.
Which month has the most rain in this made-up town?
JanMarMayJun

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ella goes for a walk up a valley. She sees a river, a stone bridge and some fields. Which parts are physical and which are human?

A green valley with a river running through it, a stone bridge and small fields

Watch me

The river wore away the valley over thousands of years. Nobody made it.

So the river is a physical feature.

The bridge and the fields were made by people, so they are human features.

Now you

1.
A hill was made when rock folded over millions of years. Is it physical or human?
physicalhuman

C Your turn6 min

Circle one lens for each sentence. Physical means nature made it. Human means people made it. Environmental means people and nature affect each other.

A rocky coast with cliffs, a small harbour and a grassy hill above the sea

1.
A river has cut a deep gorge through rock over thousands of years.
physicalhumanenvironmental
2.
A new supermarket is built beside a main road in a town.
physicalhumanenvironmental
3.
Smoke from a factory makes the air dirty, so people in the town cough more.
physicalhumanenvironmental
4.
People plant trees on bare hillsides so the soil stops washing away.
physicalhumanenvironmental

Say it out loud: Which words in each sentence told you the lens? Tell your grown-up.

D Spot the mistake3 min

A river flowing past the back of a small town with bridges and trees

Ravi says: “The river near my house is not geography, because geography only happens at school.”

1.
What is wrong with Ravi's idea? Write one or two sentences.

E Think deeper4 min

A town street with a row of shop fronts, round trees on the pavement and a grey road, with no people.

1.
Think about a town street like this one. Write one physical, one human and one environmental feature you might find there.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Geography all around you · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. South

2. D1 They may have given the square of a different symbol. Find the church first, then go along the bottom to the letter and up the side to the number.

3. Mar They may have stopped at the first tall bar, January. Ask them to look along every bar, find the tallest and read its label.

B

1. physical They may think a hill was built by people. Ask who or what made it: rock and time, or people?

C

1. physical They may have chosen environmental because water changed the rock. Ask: did people cause this, or did water and time?

2. human

3. environmental They may have chosen human because people are in the sentence. Ask: is this about people changing the environment around them?

4. environmental

D

1. Look for: Says geography happens everywhere, not just at school, and that the river is a physical feature. If they only say he is wrong, ask: where did this river come from, and who can notice it? Help them name the physical feature.

E

1. Look for: Names one feature made by nature, one built by people, and one showing people and nature affecting each other, such as street trees planted to clean the air.

Words to use

Say“Which lens is this: is nature doing it, people, or both? Where did you notice geography today?”

Instead of“Geography is just facts from a book, so there is nothing to notice at home.”

After the sheet

Walk round the house or garden together. Name one physical, one human and one environmental thing you see, and say why each one fits.

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

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

Geography in the news(with a plan)
Reading maps and graphs(with a plan)
Looking Beyond One Photo(with a plan)
Wild places and people(with a plan)
Hot, cold and very big(with a plan)
Tourism in Oceania(with a plan)
Africa's resources and phones(with a plan)

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