A specialist documentary resource shop featuring worksheets and challenge activities to support learning and thinking around educational documentaries. Resources are created by an experienced geography teacher and subject leader.
A specialist documentary resource shop featuring worksheets and challenge activities to support learning and thinking around educational documentaries. Resources are created by an experienced geography teacher and subject leader.
Help your students get the most from the stunning BBC documentary exploring frozen worlds from pole to pole, using a 23 question and answer worksheet.
David Attenborough narrates explores frozen landscapes from pole to pole, revealing the surprising frozen worlds that exist across the planet and the remarkable animals that make them their home.
How to use this sheet
The worksheet has 23 questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet with timings for teachers.
Questions on the worksheet explore the following environments and topics:
• Antarctica
• Himalayas
• Animal adaptation
• Boreal Forests
• Arctic Circle
• Extreme weather events
• Climate change
7 Worlds, 1 Planet: Antarctica
BBC documentary, currently playing on iPlayer.
A lesson based around the 59 minute documentary Seven Worlds, One Planet, episode 1. This documentary is all about Antarctica and the hostile conditions it presents to wildlife.
Lesson Plan:
5-10 mins Do Now - using evidence to predict environmental features
5 mins Location - Map and place specific detail
59 mins Documentary
10-15 mins Final task: Share views based on worksheet - explanation
Content:
It could be used to support learning around polar ecosystems, animal habitats and adaptations or place specific study of Polar and Arctic regions. A good amount of discussion on climate change in Antarctica. Can cover a lesson or used as a stand-alone homework.
Topics include:
animal habitat
climate change
southern ocean
winter / spring seasons
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Documentary exploring forest ecosystems.
This is a question and answer sheet to accompany the documentary Planet Earth 3: Forests on BBC.
This worksheet explore the unexpected connections and communications across forest environments and includes the following topics:
*Ecosystems ecosystems
Symbiotic relationships
Animal adaptations
Deforestation
Plantations
Key plants e.g. kapok tress
Animal and human interactions*
This worksheet covers the full 45 minutes of the documentary. There are a variety of question types used to keep kids engaged and comes with a handy teacher answer sheet with guide times to support lesson planning.
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A 29 question worksheet and follow on sheet to support A Perfect Planet - Humans (BBC Documentary). The programme looks at how humans are changing our planet so rapidly, that it is affecting earth’s life support systems: our weather, our oceans and the living world.
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The worksheet has 29 questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet for teachers. There is a differentiated follow on worksheet for students to complete to think further around this topic.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Extinction
Energy use
Oceans currents
Extreme weather events - droughts
Climate change
Deforestation
Desertification
Human solutions
Ecosystems: Sahara Desert, Amazon Rainforest & Ocean ecosystems
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Documentary: River Yukon, River Study.
A question and answer worksheet based around BBC documentary Earth’s Great Rivers, episode 3, Yukon River. A helpful teacher sheet with answers and timings is included. There are some follow on tasks include describe and explain questions and a mapping task. Could be used to support learning around river ecosystems, river basin animal habitats and adaptations. Good examples of low impact human use of a river. Can be used as a full lesson or used as a stand-alone homework.
Download includes all worksheets in both Word and PDF formats.
Documentary on Woodland Ecosystems
A comprehensive 21 question worksheet for Woodlands, Wild Isles (BBC Documentary).
Sir David Attenborough explores the incredible diversity of Britain’s woodlands, taking us on a seasonal journey through our forests, and revealing a host of spectacular animals and the hidden dramas that rule their lives.
The worksheet includes 21 different styled questions that cover the full 45 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet, with timings for teachers.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Habitats
Food chains
Plant and animal interactions
Human impacts
If you like this resource, please leave a review. Worksheets have been made for other episodes of this series and many other science and nature documentaries for BBC and Netflix, please view them here.
7 Worlds, 1 Planet: Antarctica
BBC documentary, currently playing on iPlayer.
A question and answer worksheet based around the 59 minute documentary seven worlds, one planet, episode 1. This documentary is all about Antarctica and the hostile conditions it presents to wildlife.
It could be used to support learning around polar ecosystems, animal habitats and adaptations or place specific study of Polar and Arctic regions. A good amount of discussion on climate change in Antarctica. Can cover a lesson or used as a stand-alone homework.
Topics include:
animal habitat
climate change
southern ocean
winter / spring seasons
Find documentary worksheets to a full lesson on this topic or for other geography documentaries in my shop.
A question and answer worksheet based around Netflix documentary our planet, episode 7, Fresh Water. A teacher sheet with answers is included. Could be used to support learning around river ecosystems, river basin animal habitats and adaptations. Some detail here on resource management and how humans impact fluvial processes and ecosystems. Can be used as a full lesson or used as a stand-alone homework.
Download includes all worksheets in both Word and PDF formats.
Used to support learning around BBC documentary Earth From Space, Changing Earth Episode 4.
A worksheet to support learning about satellite images and how satellite imagery is used around the world. Focuses on changing landscapes and includes commentary and images on deforestation, climate change, retreating glaciers hurricane formation and wildfires. Excellent round up of learning for GCSE geography curriculum. Could be used in lesson or as a homework task. A teacher answer sheet is included.
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A comprehensive 25 question worksheet and follow on activity for Green Planet, Tropical World (BBC Documentary). David Attenborough explores new filming techniques which allow us to enter the plants’ world and see it from their perspective and on their timescale. From fast-growing trees to flowers that mimic dead animals, this is a journey into a magical world that operates on a different timescale to our own.
The worksheet includes 25 different styled questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet, with timings for teachers. There is a differentiated follow on activity for students to complete to think further around this topic.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Rainforest vegetation
Tropical plants
Photosynthesis
plant and animal interactions
Climate change
Deforestation
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A question and answer worksheet to support David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet (Netflix). This film introduces students to the threats to biodiversity and loss of wilderness facing our planet, caused by human activity. David Attenborough outlines the threats that our planet are facing in different biomes before sharing key solutions, linked to case studies around the world.
The documentary sheet has a variety of question types that covers the full 1.32 hour documentary. To support staff the worksheet includes timings for each question and a short guidance to help teachers provide breaking down the questions across different timed lessons.
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Worksheet includes the following topics:
Holocene
Biodiversity
Ecosystem
Habitat
Symbiosis
Variety of marine and land ecosystems
Climate change
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A 20 question worksheet to support Earth: The Power of the Planet documentary. The first episode focused on the physical processes surrounding volcanoes and tectonic processes. Dr Iain Stewart reveals the role natural forces have played in the creation of the planet Earth. Although volcanoes appear to be destructive, volcanoes have been crucial to the development of life. Iain’s journey takes him to Ethiopia to discover lava lakes, to Iceland to scuba dive between continents and to New Zealand to sample some hot springs.
The worksheet has 20 questions, in varying styles that covers the full 1 hour documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet for teachers.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Active volcanoes
Earth’s core
Plate boundaries
Earthquakes
Erosion and transportation
Climate Change
C02 storage
Subduction
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Netflix documentary: Night on Earth - Frozen Nights
Great for geography lessons at Christmas!
Question worksheet to accompany the Netflix documentary Night on Earth: Frozen Nights, episode 2. Planned with a KS3 group in mind who are studying polar environments or adaptation in different ecosystems, but equally could be used for students as part of a place based study such as the Arctic. A teacher answer sheet is provided and there are optional extension / homework tasks to round up ideas from this documentary.
Locations include: Arctic, Alaska, northern forests, Japan
Documentary length: 44 minutes
Topics include:
Adaptation to different environments
Characteristics of hunters in Arctic environments
Animal adaptation for darkness and colder climates
Survival techniques of prey / hunting techniques of predators
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A question and answer worksheet based around Netflix / BBC documentary Life, episode 1. Focuses on the challenges experienced by different animals in a range of ecosystems around the world. Could be used to support learning around ecosystems, animal habitats and adaptations. Can be used as a full lesson or used as a stand-alone homework. A teacher sheet with answers is included.
Help your students get to grips with the tropical rainforest environment of the Congo using this sheet to explore episode 1 of Wilderness with Simon Reeves - The Congo (BBC documentary).
Students gain a greater understanding of the environment and the people who live within the Congo, watching while completing this ready to use question and answer sheet.
Details on the programme
Simon Reeve travels through the Congo, the second-greatest rainforest on earth. In one of the toughest journeys he’s ever undertaken, Simon travels five hundred miles across dense tropical jungle, heading for the region of Salonga, where he searches for one of the rarest and most iconic creatures on the continent - the bonobo
**How to use this sheet
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The worksheet has 19 questions that cover the full 60 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet with timings for teachers.
Questions on the worksheet explore the following environments and topics:
• Tropical rainforest
• Congo, East Africa
• Ecosystems - plants, animals, climate
• Animal adaptation
• Deforestation
This sheet comes ready to use and in both PDF and Word formats.
A 18 question worksheet and fact collection to support H20: The Molecule That Made Us (BBC Documentary), episode 1. This episode investigates the inseparable bond between water and life. It looks at water in the sky, animal migrations and how the impacts of drought.
The worksheet has a range of question types that cover the full 50 minute documentary. To support staff, an answer sheet, with timings, is included for teachers.
Questions on the worksheet cover the following topics, among others:
Hadean Era
Water Cycle
Animal adaptation
Atmospheric circulation
Drought
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A planned lesson on PowerPoint with a 24 question worksheet to accompany BBC documentary series Climate Change - The Facts. Designed for use with a year 9 group studying climate change. This pack includes Powerpoint, lesson objectives, starter task and final task included to fully make use of the worksheet provided. A teacher answer sheet is provided and there is an optional extension exam task.
24 question worksheet with short follow on task to accompany BBC documentary series Climate Change - The Facts. Designed for use with a year 9 group studying climate change. A teacher answer sheet is provided and there is an optional extension exam task. Can also be used as a stand alone sheet or homework task.
Key themes:
global warming
Climate change
Fossil fuels
Impacts (economic, social, environmental)
Ways forward (international cooperation, renewables)
A question and answer worksheet based around Netflix documentary our planet, episode 8, Forests. Could be used to support learning around forest ecosystems, animal habitats and adaptations. Can be used as a full lesson or used as a stand-alone homework. A teacher sheet with answers is included.
Question and answer worksheet to accompany BBC documentary series Africa, episode 5 - Sahara Desert. Designed for use with a year 8 group studying desert environments, but equally could be used for students as part of a place based study of Africa or ecosystems as questions focus on animal adaptations and climate. A teacher answer sheet is provided and there are optional challenge tasks on teacher sheet to round up ideas on animal adaptation and some short exam based questions. Could be used as a homework activity to round up ecosystems or Africa units.