Lesson covers the roles of the rainforest, e.g. atmosphere cleaning and carbon trapping. Activities centre around Bruce Parry’s series ‘The Amazon’ which highlights the issues of mining, foresting and road building in the rainforest. All worksheets included within the ppt.

Lesson covers the causes and impacts of deforestation with specific reference to links within the water and carbon cycles, e.g. forest fires, glacial melt, sea level rise All worksheets included within the ppt.

Lesson covers the meaning of ecotourism and an example in the Amazon rainforest. Activities include internet research and exam question practice. All resources included within the ppt

Lesson covers the idea of ecosystems at different scales, biomes, food chains and food webs, nutrient cycling, energy cycling, trophic levels, photosynthesis. Activities include matching tasks, short understanding questions, quizzes from the board All resources and worksheets included at the end of the ppt

Lesson covers the idea of biomes and all eight of the world’s major biomes. Activities include finding information to complete an annotated world map and a quiz plenary task All resources and worksheets are included at the end of the ppt

Lesson covers what happens within ecosystems if certain elements are removed or new species are introduced Activities include thinking about scenarios around a UK hedgerow, and a research task about unplanned species introduction All resources and sheets are included at the end of the ppt

Lesson covers the location and climate of tropical rainforests Activities include describing the rainforest locations and interpreting & describing climate graphs All resources and worksheets are included at the end of the ppt

Lesson covers a recap of the links between the water and carbon cyles and how climate change might affect this; it then explores the long term, medium term and short term types of climate change and the evidence for each Worksheets included in the ppt

Lesson covers the layers of the rainforest (emergent, canopy, understorey, shrub etc) and their characteristics, and the features of the rainforest soil Activities include labelling the layers of a rainforest and annotating the soil with its characteristics All resources and worksheets included at the end of the ppt

Lesson covers the meaning of deforestation and causes of deforestation Activities include sorting statements, describing deforested areas and exam practice All resources and worksheets are included at the end of the ppt

Lesson covers 7 different strategies to save tropical rainforest Activities include questioning, structured note taking and exam question practice All resources and worksheets included within the ppt

Lesson covers the causes of deforestation (using Bruce Parry’s DVD ‘The Amazon’) and analyses the impacts on nature, people and the economy Activities include watching a DVD (episodes and times noted), coding statements and describing impacts All worksheets and resources included within the ppt

Lesson covers the location of cold environments, their climate, and the difference between polar and tundra Activities include describing a map, coding statements, and interpreting a climate graph All resources and worksheets are included within the ppt

Lesson covers the idea of goods and services and which ones exist in the rainforest Activities include statement sorting, note taking and exam question practice All resources and worksheets included within the ppt

Lesson covers a range of plant and animal adaptations using the BBC’s Frozen Planet and a range of structured questions and research Activities include watching Frozen Planet, answering key questions and carrying out internet research. All resources and worksheets included within the ppt

Lesson covers four different management strategies and how they can help, e.g. using technology and involving governments Activities include research and note taking and an essay practice question with model answer All resources and worksheets are included within the ppt

Lesson covers the threats to cold wilderness and why it is important that it is protected; management strategies are explored Activities include statement coding and analysis All resources and worksheets are included at the end of the ppt

Lesson covers theory behind the global circulation model. Students have a clear A3 worksheet to fill in throughout the lesson to give them a clear and detailed revision sheet for the exams. Worksheet included within the ppt

A concise factfile of these two tropical storms from the 2018 storm season Contains key background facts and figures as well as primary impacts, secondary impacts, immediate responses and long term responses (also coded as environmental, social, economic) Would be a good summary for students comparing more and less developed impacts and responses of storms; would also be a good basis for a comparison lesson

A powerpoint that includes a wide variety of activities to do with thinking about our plastic usage and how we can reduce it. The first activity is based on the BBC’s recent documentary ‘Drowning in plastic’. The other activities are based on reading and analysing text, persuasive writing, plotting plastic waste on a map, drawing a bar chart of biodegrade times, and role plays and creative activities to do with designing new purposes for plastic bottles. All resources and worksheets are included within the ppt. Resources created by The Planet Press, a teacher-written blog that encourages students to keep up to date with world environmental news