Lesson 1: Where are the Alps?
Locating the continents, various European countries and the Alps on the world map; finding out which countries the Alps span.
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Before starting this unit you might want to check that children can recall:
Mountains are found mainly at plate boundaries.
Mountains are formed when plate boundaries move.
Some names of famous mountain ranges and their continent (e.g. the Andes in South America; the Himalayas in Asia; the Rockies in North America; the Alps in Europe).
The different types of mountains and how they are formed (fold mountains — plates come together and push up; fault-block mountains — plates come together, crack along weaknesses and sink; volcanic mountains — plates move apart, lava erupts and hardens).
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