Year 6 Geography Wednesday 6th May 2020

Over the next few weeks you should be able to complete your Geography work independently.

You can complete this work in your homework book.

If you have any questions, write them down and we can discuss them during our weekly phone call.

Last week, we explored the physical geographical features of Japan- it’s

mountains, forests, climate and volcanoes.

Think- what is a human geographical

feature?

A human feature is something that is built by humans and would not have existed in nature without humans. Features include anything from a house to a city, and all the related infrastructure such as roads, rail, canals etc.

Today, we will be comparing the capital cities of the UK and Japan- London and Tokyo.This is how long it would take to walk between the two cities. Flying takes

around 11 hours and 50 minutes.

On the next slides are images comparing London and Tokyo.

Look at the images- can you see any similarities or differences between the two cities?

There is an eight hour time difference between the UK and

Japan.

London

Tokyo

These maps show the underground train systems.

LondonTube Tokyo Metro

London

Tokyo

London

Tokyo

Here is a drone video of London.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs-skMbz9vo

Here is a drone video of Tokyo.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKAYqzOfLjY

population(how many people live there)

average age(how old people are on average)

cost of living (how much it costs to live in a

place- price of rent/bills/shopping etc)

GDP(This mean Gross Domestic

Product- how much money the country is worth in a year)

literacy rate(percentage of people who

can read or write– the higher the better)

unemployment rate(percentage of people who do

not have jobs- the lower the better!)

Human FeaturesWe can use these features to compare different countries

Draw this table in your book (or use the headings).Use the internet to research the different human features of each place. Complete the table with your research. The definitions on the previous slide will help you.

Task Wednesday 6th May 2020 LO to explore the human geographical features of Japan.

LONDON (UK) TOKYO (JAPAN)

Population of city

Tallest building (in metres)

Size of the city (in km2)

Percentage of green space in city

Average age (of country)

GDP (of country)

Literacy rate ( of country)

Unemployment rate (of country)

There are lots of similarities between London and Tokyo-they are both major global cities after all.

The main difference is the size of the two cities. Tokyo is massive! It is often regarded as the biggest city in the world.

I found this video about Tokyo really interesting and thought you would enjoy it too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SL9KRvzVmoHere is Tokyo and London, put on a map of England for

comparison.

This means well done in Japanese. Excellent Geography

work today.

Tomorrow we will be looking at the art of origami in DT ☺