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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.
Green Planet Water World
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Green Planet Water World

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Environments covered: fresh water, coastal zone A comprehensive 20 question worksheet for Green Planet, Water World (BBC Documentary). David Attenborough explores new filming techniques which allow us to enter the plants’ world and see adaptations fresh water plants use to survive in their under water environments. The worksheet includes 20 different styled questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet, with timings for teachers. Please consider leaving a review for this resource. Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics: Fresh water vegetation Aquatic plants Photosynthesis Plant and animal interactions Climate change Salt water ecosytem - seagrass 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.
Frozen Planet 2
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Frozen Planet 2

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Help your students get the most from episode 3 of the BBC documentary exploring mountain environments, using a comprehensive 21 question and answer worksheet. David Attenborough explores frozen mountain habitats, found on every continent on Earth, and looks at the unique challenges for its surprising and remarkable life. How to use this sheet The worksheet has 21 questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet with timings for teachers. A favour to ask, please consider leaving a review of this resource. Questions on the worksheet explore the following environments and topics: • Mountain environments • Animal adaptation • Avalanches • Extreme weather • Climate change See my shop for other sheets to this documentary series.
Snow Animals
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Snow Animals

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BBC Documentary: Snow Animals A question and answer worksheet based around the 59 minute documentary Snow Animals. This documentary is all about how animals cope with the hostile conditions it presents to wildlife and the strategies they use. Great for a Christmas themed Geography It could be used to support learning around polar or northern ecosystems, animal habitats and adaptations in winter conditions. A good amount of discussion on animal adapatation. Can cover a lesson or used as a stand-alone homework. Find documentary worksheets to a full lesson on this topic or for other geography documentaries in my shop.
Earth: The Power of the Planet
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Earth: The Power of the Planet

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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 For worksheets to support other science and nature documentaries please see my shop.
Asia - The Frozen North
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Asia - The Frozen North

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BBC documentary: Asia - The Frozen North BBC documentary, currently on iPlayer. Content: Every year the northern half of Asia is transformed by snow and ice. This documentary explores how some remarkable creatures defy and thrive in some of the harshest conditions on Earth. How to use this resource: Ready to use worksheet, no prep required 20 questions to cover the full 48 minutes Helpful teacher sheet with answers and timings Short extension mapping task for independent work (with atlas provision) PDF and Word format files included. I specialise in worksheets to support science and nature documentaries across BBC iPlayer and Netflix. Check my shop to view materials to support other episodes in this series.
Asia - Above the Clouds
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Asia - Above the Clouds

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BBC documentary: Asia - Above the Clouds BBC documentary, currently on iPlayer. Content: Asia is the most mountainous continent on earth. From the forested slopes of the tropics to the hostile heights of the Himalaya, Asia’s mountains are home to an astonishing abundance of specialised plants and wildlife. Explore how plants and animals thrive in these mountainous environments. How to use this resource: Ready to use worksheet, no prep required 21 questions to cover the full 50 minutes Helpful teacher sheet with answers and timings Short extension mapping task for independent work (with atlas provision) PDF and Word format files included. Please note, there is a 10 minute section at the end of the documentary exploring the filming of this episode. The worksheet does not include questions on this section. I specialise in worksheets to support science and nature documentaries across BBC iPlayer and Netflix. Check my shop to view materials to support other episodes in this series.
Asia Documentary
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Asia Documentary

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BBC documentary: Asia BBC documentary, currently on iPlayer. Content: Asia has the longest coastline of any continent and the richest coral reefs on earth. Its seas are connected by some of the world’s most powerful currents and are home to over 60 per cent of all marine species. This groundbreaking film features the charismatic creatures of Asia’s oceans, from ocean giants in the big blue to tiny fish that climb trees. How to use this resource: This worksheet is ready to use and has 23 questions covering 2 A4 sheets. The worksheet is set out to capture students attention for the full 45 minutes with a variety of question styles. There is a helpful teacher sheet included with timings and answers to each question to support non-subject specialists. Additionally, there is a follow on task to help orientate the south east of Asia (coral triangle). I specialise in worksheets to support science and nature documentaries across BBC iPlayer and Netflix. Check my shop to view materials to support other episodes in this series.
Green Planet - Tropical World
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Green Planet - Tropical World

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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 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.
Wilderness with Simon Reeves - Kalahari
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Wilderness with Simon Reeves - Kalahari

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Help your students get to grips with the desert environment of the Kalahari using this sheet to explore episode 4 of Wilderness with Simon Reeves - The Kalahari (BBC documentary). Students gain a greater understanding of the environment and the people who live within the Kalahari, completing this ready to use question and answer sheet while watching the documentary. Details on the programme Simon Reeve travels across the Kalahari in southern Africa. Simon tracks wildebeest with a group of one of the region’s indigenous inhabitants, the San, who are renowned for their hunting and tracking techniques. He visits the Okavango Delta, which is transformed each year by seasonal rains from a desert to an oasis of greenery. **How to use this sheet ** The worksheet has 18 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: • Desert ecosystems • Southern Africa • Ecosystems - plants, animals, climate • Animal adaptation • Human settlements - tourism and traditional communities This sheet comes ready to use and in both PDF and Word formats.
Restoring Our Reefs
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Restoring Our Reefs

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Curriculum focus: Coral Reefs, Marine Ecosystems, Conservation. A detailed 25 question worksheet for Our Changing Planet, Restoring Our Reefs (BBC Documentary). Documentary details This documentary focuses on innovative techniques to reduce the impact of coral destruction and bleaching. Visiting the Maldives, the UK and Florida, scientists employ cutting edge technology to reduce the damage to coral and cold water reefs. The bundle includes The worksheet includes 25 different styled questions that cover the full hour long documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet, with timings for teachers. Copies of this sheet come in PDF and Word formats. 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 in my shop.
Management of Coral Reefs
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Management of Coral Reefs

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Curriculum focus: Coral Reefs, Marine Ecosystems, Conservation and Management. A detailled 25 question worksheet for Our Changing Planet, Restoring Our Reefs (BBC Documentary). Documentary details This documentary focuses on innovative techniques to reduce and manage the impact of coral destruction and bleaching. Visiting the Maldives, the UK and Florida, scientists employ cutting edge technology to reduce the damage to coral and cold water reefs. The bundle includes This no prep worksheet includes 25 different styled questions that cover the full hour long documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet, with timings for teachers. 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 in my shop.
Horizon - 7.7 Billion and Counting
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Horizon - 7.7 Billion and Counting

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BBC documentary: Horizon 2020: 1. Chris Packham: 7.7 Billion People and Counting. BBC documentary, currently on iPlayer. A question and answer worksheet based around the 58 minute horizon documentary on population and earth resources. This documentary is about Chris’s view that a world of ten billion may simply be too many people for the earth to sustain, given the impact 7.7 billion humans are already having. Travelling around the globe in search of answers to difficult and sometimes controversial questions, Chris investigates why our population is growing so rapidly, what impact it is having on the natural world, and whether there is anything that can be done. . * Special offer: Review this resource and get one free - information below.* It could be used to support learning around population increase, urban living and resource management. Can cover a lesson or used as a stand-alone homework. I have included a short exam question to complete at the end of the lesson or for a follow up at another point. Topics include: Population increase Birth rates Resource management I specialise in worksheets to support science and nature documentaries across BBC iPlayer and Netflix. Check my shop to view materials to support other episodes in this series. If you leave a review after downloading and using this resource please email me with your username and date of review. I will then send you one resource of your chice for free. Please contact docgeog@gmail.com to redeem this offer.*
Perfect Planet - Oceans
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Perfect Planet - Oceans

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A 20 question worksheet and follow on activity sheet to support A Perfect Planet - The Ocean (BBC Documentary). The programme looks at the key forces around oceans of currents, winds and waves. Without the constant mixing of currents, tides and waves, our oceans would stop supporting life - and a healthy ocean is vital to a healthy planet. The worksheet has 20 questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary. To support staff a comphrehensive answer sheet is included for teachers. There is an additional differentiated follow on worksheet for students to complete to think further around this topic. Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics: Oceans Currents and wind Wave formations Marine ecosystems Coastal zones and mangrove forests Animal adaptation Climate change For worksheets to support other science and nature documentaries please see my shop.
Climate Change - The Facts Documentary
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Climate Change - The Facts Documentary

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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)
H20: The Molecule That Made Us
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H20: The Molecule That Made Us

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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 For worksheets to support other science and nature documentaries please see my shop.
River Danube - Earth's Great Rivers
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River Danube - Earth's Great Rivers

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Topics: Water, Rivers, Danube River 22 question and answer sheet to accompany the BBC documentary Earth’s Greatest Rivers 2, episode 2, Danube River. The documentary follows the river’s course from source to mouth and looks at how animal and human life depends on the River Danube. The worksheet has 22 questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet for teachers. There is a follow on worksheet with exam questions and mapping exercise for students to complete to think further around this topic. Designed for study alongside rivers unit, but equally could be used for students as part of a place based study in Europe. Topics include: Fact file on the the Danube Upper, middle and lower course characteristics Human activity along the river Flooding Conservation and management Downloaded bundle includes all sheets in both Word and PDF formats. Find other documentary worksheets and the rest of this series at my shop
Our Living World - Nature's Networks
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Our Living World - Nature's Networks

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Help your students get to grips with the changing environment caused by climate change using this sheet to explore episode 1 of Our Living World - Nature’s Networks (Netflix documentary). Students gain a greater understanding of how different animals and plants interact within a wider network across a wide range of environments, while completing this ready to use question and answer sheet. How to use this sheet This ready to use worksheet has 22 questions that cover the full 55 minute documentary. It comes with a detailed answer sheet with timings for teachers. Extended learning worksheet The documentary worksheet comes along with an extended learning worksheet to delve deeper into this subject. Questions focus on key terms and then offer an differentiated questions which can be used in class or as a follow on home learning task. The worksheets explore the following topics: • Ecosystems - plants, animals, climate • Animal adaptation • Extreme events: wildfire, drought • Changing food webs • Interconnected networks This sheet comes ready to use and in both PDF and Word formats.
Wilderness with Simon Reeves - Congo
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Wilderness with Simon Reeves - Congo

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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 ** 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.
Our Living World - Breaking Point
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Our Living World - Breaking Point

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Help your students get to grips with the changing environment caused by climate change using this sheet to explore episode 3 of Our Living World - Breaking Point (Netflix documentary). Students gain a greater understanding of changing climatic conditions across a wide range of environments, watching while completing this ready to use question and answer sheet. How to use this sheet This ready to use worksheet has 24 questions that cover the full 51 minute documentary. It comes with a detailed answer sheet with timings for teachers. Extended learning worksheet The documentary worksheet comes along with an extended learning worksheet to delve deeper into this subject. Questions focus on key terms and then offer an differentiated questions which can be used in class or as a follow on home learning task. The worksheets explore the following topics: • Ecosystems - plants, animals, climate • Animal adaptation • Climate Change • Extreme weather events: volcanoes and hurricanes • Changing food webs This sheet comes ready to use and in both PDF and Word formats.
Seven Worlds One Planet: Asia
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Seven Worlds One Planet: Asia

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7 Worlds, 1 Planet: Asia BBC documentary, currently playing on iPlayer. A question and answer worksheet based around the 59 minute documentary seven worlds, one planet, episode 2. This documentary is all about Asia and the diverse conditions it presents to wildlife. It could be used to support learning around polar ecosystems, animal habitats and adaptations or place specific study of Asia. A good amount of discussion on climate change. A range of environments are covered: deserts, mountains and jungles. Can cover a lesson or used as a stand-alone homework. Topics include: animal habitat animal adaptation climate change Note, the worksheet does not include the 10 minute section at the end on how the programme was filmed. Find documentary worksheets on this topic or for other geography documentaries in my shop.