tourism in mountains ks2

Mountains can be places for leisure activities. Many people like to ski on mountains. Other people like to climb mountains. Some people like to just visit mountains to take photos and admire their beauty.

Tourists are attracted to mountains for many reasons:

• varied topography,
• beautiful scenery,
• local traditions,
• simple life styles,
• sports that require steep slopes or winter snow

Sport-based tourism has boomed over the past 30 years

Typical mountain activities

• Mountaineering,
• Paragliding,

Summer Activities

• bird watching
• Mountain Biking

Winter Activities

• snow boarding,
• Sledging / Tobboganing
• Icefall climbing
• Snow-Shoe Trekking
• Winter walking
• Ice skating

Impact of Tourism on the Environment

Advantages of Tourism

• Creates jobs
• Encourages local crafts
• Improved living standards

Disadvantages of Tourism

• Higher prices of land and food
• Pollution from traffic
• More crowded
• Trees felled to supply timber and fuel wood
• Lost of cultural identity among the mountain people

Further information

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Become an enthusiastic mountain expert! Locate the highest peaks, identify mountain ranges, and research key facts about these. Create 3D mountain models and create presentations to share expertise.

Session 1 The 7 summits

• To use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied.
• To name and locate the world’s seven continents (KS1).
• To study an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066.

Lesson Planning

Using an atlas, locate the highest peaks in each of the 7 continents, identify to which mountain ranges they belong and in which countries the ranges are.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To locate, using an atlas, the highest peaks in each of the 7 continents
• To identify to which mountain range they belong and which countries the ranges are in.
• To consider the achievements of mountaineers such as Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.

Children will:

• Identify the different continents of the world.
• Use an atlas to locate large mountain ranges and the highest peaks in each continent.
• Begin to consider dangerous challenge of mountain climbing, what some people have achieved and why they might have chosen to undertake such a challenge.

Provided Resources

• World Map Outline
• The World’s Highest Peaks
• Unit Resources

You Will Need

• Coloured pens

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Session 2 How are mountains formed?

• To describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including mountains and volcanoes.

Discover how mountain ranges are formed and begin to understand the composition of the earth.

• To begin to understand how the mountain ranges of the world were formed
• To understand the composition of the earth: crust, mantle and core.
• Understand that mountains are formed in a number of ways.
• Know that the Earth’s crust is made of plates.
• Begin to consider how the land on the Earth has changed over time.
• Understand that volcanoes are a type of mountain & study how they are formed.
• Begin to understand the composition of the earth – crust, mantle & core..
• How are mountains formed?
• Earth cross-section
• A globe or atlas
• 5 hard-boiled eggs (with the shells still on)

There are no weblinks needed for this session.

Session 3 Mountain climates

• To identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, the Equator, the northern and southern hemispheres.
• The Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and the Arctic and Antarctic Circles.
• To find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival (air) (KS1).
• To explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow).

Learn the correct geographical language to describe the features of mountains and find out about mountain climates.

• To use geographical language to describe some features of mountain ranges and the climate experienced there.
• To understand that we breathe oxygen from the air and that there is less oxygen in the air at high altitude.
• Use and understand the terms ‘snowline’ and ‘treeline’
• Begin to understand mountain climates and how altitude affects living conditions
• Understand that we breathe oxygen from the air and that there is less oxygen at high altitude.
• Begin to understand the significance of the Equator and the Tropics and identify their positions.
• Mountain climates fact sheet
• Mountain diagram
• Mountain climates missing words game
• Mountain climates missing words answers
• Snowline chart
• Mountain ranges of the world map

You do not need any particular resources for this session.

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Session 4 The Andes or the Alps

• To locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities.
• To identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, the Equator, the northern and southern hemispheres, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and the Arctic and Antarctic Circle.
• Use search technologies effectively, appreciate how results are selected and ranked, and be discerning in evaluating digital content.

Research and understand the key physical features of the Alps or the Andes.

• To use maps, atlases, non-fiction books and the internet to research and understand key physical features of the Alps or the Andes.
• To safely use the internet to research facts about their mountain range.
• Use the internet and non-fiction books to research the Andes or the Alps mountain ranges.
• Name and locate the countries in which the mountain ranges are found.
• Describe some key features of both mountain ranges (including the highest peak)
• Decide how best to present their information.
• Mountain research questions
• Information books about mountain ranges

Information about mountain ranges from ducksters.com Facts and quiz about the Andes from study.com Information about The Alps from bbc.co.uk

Session 5 Making a mountain range

Design and Technology

• To select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks.
• To select from and use a wider range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their functional properties and aesthetic qualities.
• To apply their understanding of how to strengthen, stiffen and reinforce more complex structures.

Recreate an area of either the Andes or the Alps mountain ranges in a 3D model.

• To select materials to create a 3D mountain range and to begin to consider how best to strengthen the structure.
• To demonstrate an understanding of the key aspects and details of mountain ranges when creating and describing a model mountain range.
• Choose an area of either the Andes or the Alps mountain ranges to recreate in a 3D model.
• Plan how best to build the model, and which resources would best suit the task.
• Consider key features that need to be included in their model, including snowline and vegetation.
• How to build a mountain

Session 6 Presenting your findings

• To understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of physical geography of a region in Europe and a region within North or South America.
• To write for a range of real purposes and audiences as part of their work across the curriculum.

Use your model to present an instructional presentation that showcases your expert knowledge of the Alps or the Andes mountain ranges.

• To demonstrate an understanding of the key aspects of mountains and mountain ranges and to begin to consider the similarities and differences between the Alps and the Andes.
• To create a presentation for an audience about their mountain range.
• Present information about a mountain range.
• Consider the similarities and differences between the two mountain ranges.
• Demonstrate an ability to name and locate the countries within which the mountain ranges fall.
• Use geographical language to describe some of the key features of mountains.

This session does not need any provided resources.

• A projector for presentations (optional)

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Geography KS2 – help kids become a mountaineer for a day!

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By the time they hit KS2 geography, most children can name a mountain or two, and many could describe what a mountain is like.

KS1 equips them with this kind of knowledge, but in Year 3 or 4 children can build on that foundation by diving deeper. In this lesson, they can learn about this most imposing and impressive topological feature.

KS2 is the time for children to learn how mountains are formed; the characteristics of a mountain; how animals, plants and humans survive on mountains; and, the subject of this lesson, where the world’s mountainous regions are located.

National curriculum geography KS2

Mountains are a key part of the geography KS2 curriculum, which states that children should be able to: ‘ name and locate counties and cities of the United Kingdom; geographical regions and their identifying human and physical characteristics; key topographical features (including hills, mountains, coasts and rivers), and land-use patterns; and understand how some of these aspects have changed over time . ‘

What they’ll learn

• How to read maps , atlases and globes
• To identify mountainous regions on a map
• How to describe locations on maps using positional language
• To cross-reference maps to find out more about mountains

Mountains KS2 – starter activity

Beginning a lesson by asking questions makes learning more meaningful and models to children how they can interact curiously with the world around them.

Start by asking pupils, “Where would we find mountains?”, then continue by asking questions such as, “Are there mountains in the UK?” and, “Which other countries have mountains?”.

Encourage children to ask their own questions about the location of mountains.

Let them share facts they know about where particular mountains are, drawing out information about their location, including which continent, country and hemisphere they are in, using a globe to locate these places.

Aidan Severs is an education consultant and former primary teacher and leader. He now supports schools with curriculum and pedagogy. Follow Aidan on Twitter @aidansevers and see more of his work at aidansevers.com

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Mountain Environments - KS2 - Planning Overview

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This is the free planning overview for Mountain Environments , a comprehensive topic about mountains. A vocabulary page and topic title page are also included.

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This is the free planning overview for Mountain Environments , a comprehensive topic about mountains. A vocabulary page and topic title page are also included.

This Geography unit is designed for KS2 students from Y4 to Y6 and includes seven fully-planned lessons complete with differentiated activities/worksheets.

All the resources described in this unit plan are available on Teach It Forward, either as individual lessons or as a bundle . Two of the lessons are also free:

L1 – Identifying the key features of mountains

L2 – Identifying the world’s major mountain ranges

L3 – Locating the world’s famous mountains using latitude and longitude

L4 – Understanding how fold mountains are formed

L5 – Investigating the structure of a volcano (FREE)

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