The Amazon River - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

Physical Features of South America

For KS3 geography, this bundle is great for Year 8 in their first term back at school. This helps to get students familiar again with physical geographical concepts of rivers, coasts, climate. This bundle also contains a tutorial on GIS mapping for students to have a go mapping South America to see its physical features. This bundle contains 7 lessons that are fully resourced, with powerpoints and worksheets. Throughout the series of lessons, students will firstly begin by using GIS to map the physical features of South America and identify its location globally as well as its individual countries. Then students will go through the climate of South America along with creating a climate graph and manipulating and using data. Next students will recap the water cycle, transportation and erosion to learn about meander and waterfall formation, specifically in the case study of the Amazon River. Finally students learn about how headlands, bays and sea stacks formation along the South American coastline. Lesson 1: Mapping South America using GIS Lesson 2: Climate of South America Lesson 3: Amazon Rainforest Characteristics Lesson 4: Deforestation in the Amazon Lesson 5: Water in the Amazon Lesson 6: The Amazon River Lesson 7: Coasts of Brazil Students will gain a variety of skills such as data collection and manipulation along with creation of graphs and reading OS maps. This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.