1. Odd one out! From the pictures below which one isn’t Russia! Justify your choice!

2. Learning Objectives ALL: must identify the physical geographical features of Russia MOST: should describe and explain the physical and human geographical features SOME: could explain how physical geographical features could determine human geographical features

3. Your task! You are going to be given a map of Russia, using an Atlas, your task is to locate and map the following features: Rivers: Don River Ob’ River Pechora River Kama River Volga River Seas & Lakes: White Sea Baltic Sea Black Sea Barrents Sea Ladoga Lake Lake Onega Countries Lithuania Azerbaijan Finland Estonia Norway Belarus Latvia Ukraine Mountains: Ural Mountains

4. Using Tracing paper! Place your tracing paper over your physical geography map. You are now going to plot the following cities. 1.Moscow 2.St. Petersburg 3.Volgograd 4.Rostov 5.Nizhnivy Novgorod

5. Your Task You are going to be writing a descriptive piece explaining the links between the locations of the cities you have plotted and the geographical features.

6. To finish off How do you think the physical features of Russia link to their way of life? i.e. what do you think it would be like to live in the city of Rostov or St. Petersburg!