Egypt - Exploring Human and Physical Geography Lesson!

This interesting and highly-stimulating lesson enables students to describe and understand the key human and physical geography features of Egypt. Whilst gaining a wide range of knowledge about the biomes, rivers, lakes, climates and cities of Egypt, students also become familiar with a wide range of vocabulary pertinent to the KS2/KS3 geography curriculum.

The lesson follows a clear, logical, bite-size learning journey, which guides students towards relevant and constructive learning objectives. Over the course of this journey, they become able to:

-Remember key facts about the African continent to contextualise their learning;
-Learn key facts about the area, population and main features of Egypt;
-Explore further information about the climate and biomes of Egypt through watching a thought-provoking video;
-Identify and range of physical and human geography features on a map-building task;
-Partake in deeper thinking activities about population density and trade in Egypt;
-Self-assess their progress using the learning objectives.

The lesson requires access to atlases and/or web-searching devices.

This resource pack includes:
-A visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation (14 slides);
-A blank map for the Egypt map-building activity (in Word and PDF);

The resources within this lesson can be easily adapted to suit home/remote learning.