This lesson looks at the importance of ocean sin terms of the hydrological cycle, carbon storage, oxygen production and thermohaline circulation (ocean currents).

This lesson focuses on Africa’s mineral wealth and how that doesn’t always translate to financial wealth. This includes an image analysis task, gap fill, categorising factors in terms of social, economic and environmental factors.

A brief history of Africa focusing on colonialism. Image analysis focusing on the scramble for Africa, a tarsia of key terms, a reading activity with comprehension questions and a modern focus on the DRC and how colonialism is still impacting it today.

An opinion based lesson in which student learn the facts regarding big ape tourism in Bwindi national Park and come to a decision whether ecotourism is a sustainable model to develop and protect the area. Activities include a mind mapping exercise, gap fill, YouTube video, and a stakeholder carousel activity, these are then presented to other students.

The introductory lesson for the KS3 unit on Africa. this starts with a quiz in which all answers are Africa. Students then complete Atlas work, graph continent sizes, work out population density and compare continents focusing on sentence structures.

KS3 unit test from the Africa Unit