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title: "Year 3 Geography: Where is North America and what is it like?"
url: "https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2023-02-23-year-3-geography-where-is-north-america-and-what-is-it-like"
school: "St Barnabas Primary School, A Church of England Academy"
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# Year 3 Geography: Where is North America and what is it like?

  ![](https://files.schudio.com/st-barnabas-primary-school/images/news/DC1A1971-2B4E-4F9A-942E-806A5E86DE61.jpeg)   23 February 2023

This afternoon in Geography, we started our new unit on North America. We began by recapping our knowledge and understanding of the 7 continents and 5 oceans around the world, before discussing what we already know about North America. The class then carried out their own research, to find out about North America’s Top 8.

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