Lions for Life - Geography

Help your students to learn about physical landscapes of lion habitats, the threats they face with a specific focus on the impact of climate change on the surrounding wildlife and communities and what we can do to protect them. These resources, linking film content, PowerPoints and student activities, are suitable for KS3 and tailored to meet Geography learning objectives.

Learning objectives

1. To extend locational knowledge and deepen spatial awareness of African countries, including knowledge of key physical characteristics.
2. Understand how human and physical processes interact to influence and change landscapes, environments and the climate; and how human activity relies on effective functioning of natural systems.
3. To explain how food chains and food webs work in the African savannah, including how animals have unique adaptations and characteristics developed to survive this environment and keep a balanced ecosystem.
4. To understand how human actions are destroying and altering ecosystems.