Planet Geography
Planet Geography
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Hello, I'm Natasha and I provide high-quality geography resources for KS3 and KS4. https://linktr.ee/planetgeography

docx, 462.5 KB
docx, 462.5 KB
pptx, 56.67 MB
pptx, 56.67 MB

Students will be able to recap where tropical rainforests are located globally, then they should work on defining what deforestation is, then students should identify the trends of deforestation shown in the choropleth map. Then students investigate the reason why deforestation occurs due to economic reasons. Finally students weigh up the economic benefits with the environmental costs of deforestation.

Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Describe the location of tropical rainforests globally.
Task 2: Describe the trends shown in the choropleth map.
Task 3: Describe the trends in the pie chart for reasons of deforestation
Task 4: Main Task: Evaluate if the economic benefits of deforestation are worth the environmental cost
Task 5: Plenary: Recap of home learning expectation.

Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

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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.

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