Wilderness with Simon Reeves - Kalahari

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
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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.