A specialist documentary resource shop featuring worksheets and challenge activities to support learning and thinking around educational documentaries. Resources are created by an experienced geography teacher and subject leader.
A specialist documentary resource shop featuring worksheets and challenge activities to support learning and thinking around educational documentaries. Resources are created by an experienced geography teacher and subject leader.
Our Planet: Jungles / Rainforest Environments
A question and answer worksheet based around Netflix documentary our planet, Jungles. Could be used to support learning around rainforest ecosystems, animal habitats and human activity in forests. Can be used as a full lesson or used as a stand-alone homework. A teacher sheet with answers is included.
Questions focus on:
Different rainforest environments
Animal adaptations in the ecosystem
Human activity and resource management
Deforestation
Food chains in the rainforest ecosystem
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Earth’s Tropical Islands: Madagascar
BBC documentary, currently on iPlayer.
A question and answer worksheet based around the 50 minute documentary Madagascar Earth’s Tropical Islands episode 1. This documentary is about the how the ecosystem developed across a range of different habitats in Madagascar.
It could be used to support learning around ecosystems. animal habitats and adaptations or place specific study of Madagascar. Some discussion on how humans impact the landscape and deforestation. Can cover a lesson or used as a stand-alone homework.
I have included additional exam questions and tasks to complete at the end of the lesson or for a home learning activity.
Topics include:
ecosystems - desert, mountainous & rainforest
Madagascan wildlife
Weather and climate
Deforestation
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A 29 question worksheet and follow on sheet to support A Perfect Planet - Humans (BBC Documentary). The programme looks at how humans are changing our planet so rapidly, that it is affecting earth’s life support systems: our weather, our oceans and the living world.
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The worksheet has 29 questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet for teachers. There is a differentiated follow on worksheet for students to complete to think further around this topic.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Extinction
Energy use
Oceans currents
Extreme weather events - droughts
Climate change
Deforestation
Desertification
Human solutions
Ecosystems: Sahara Desert, Amazon Rainforest & Ocean ecosystems
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Documentary on Woodland Ecosystems
A comprehensive 21 question worksheet for Woodlands, Wild Isles (BBC Documentary).
Sir David Attenborough explores the incredible diversity of Britain’s woodlands, taking us on a seasonal journey through our forests, and revealing a host of spectacular animals and the hidden dramas that rule their lives.
The worksheet includes 21 different styled questions that cover the full 45 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet, with timings for teachers.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Habitats
Food chains
Plant and animal interactions
Human impacts
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Help your students get to grips with the changing environment caused by climate change using this sheet to explore episode 3 of Our Living World - Breaking Point (Netflix documentary).
Students gain a greater understanding of changing climatic conditions across a wide range of environments, watching while completing this ready to use question and answer sheet.
How to use this sheet
This ready to use worksheet has 24 questions that cover the full 51 minute documentary. It comes with a detailed answer sheet with timings for teachers.
Extended learning worksheet
The documentary worksheet comes along with an extended learning worksheet to delve deeper into this subject. Questions focus on key terms and then offer an differentiated questions which can be used in class or as a follow on home learning task.
The worksheets explore the following topics:
• Ecosystems - plants, animals, climate
• Animal adaptation
• Climate Change
• Extreme weather events: volcanoes and hurricanes
• Changing food webs
This sheet comes ready to use and in both PDF and Word formats.
A question and answer worksheet based around Netflix documentary our planet, episode 1. Could be used to support learning around ecosystems, animal habitats and adaptations. Can be used as a full lesson or used as a stand-alone homework. A teacher sheet with answers is included.
Easy to use question and answer worksheet for students to accompany the BBC documentary Earth’s Greatest Rivers, The Mississippi River. Questions span the full 50 minutes of the documentary. A detailed answer sheet is provided for teachers. An optional worksheet is included to round up ideas from this documentary (summarising questions and mapping task).
Documentary time: 50 mins (+10 how we filmed section)
Topics include:
Upper course - river landscape
Melt water and it’s impact on wildlife
Middle course - river landscape
Agriculture
Transport
Lower course - river landscape
Flood risk - New Orleans
Flood plains
Downloaded bundle provides all sheets i both Word and PDF formats.
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Earth From Space / Using Satellite Images in Geography
A worksheet to support BBC documentary Earth Fro Space, episode 1. Used to help students learn about satellite images and how they are used around the world. Focuses on monitoring changing animal behaviour in different ecosystems and changing landscapes. Could be used as part of a lesson on satellite images or as a geography skills homework task.
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7 Worlds, 1 Planet: Antarctica
BBC documentary, currently playing on iPlayer.
A lesson based around the 59 minute documentary Seven Worlds, One Planet, episode 1. This documentary is all about Antarctica and the hostile conditions it presents to wildlife.
Lesson Plan:
5-10 mins Do Now - using evidence to predict environmental features
5 mins Location - Map and place specific detail
59 mins Documentary
10-15 mins Final task: Share views based on worksheet - explanation
Content:
It could be used to support learning around polar ecosystems, animal habitats and adaptations or place specific study of Polar and Arctic regions. A good amount of discussion on climate change in Antarctica. Can cover a lesson or used as a stand-alone homework.
Topics include:
animal habitat
climate change
southern ocean
winter / spring seasons
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Documentary exploring the changing coral reefs.
Question and answer sheet to accompany the documentary: Chasing Coral on Netflix. This film introduces students to the importance of coral reef ecosystems, the threats they are facing, climate change and how what one group of people are doing to let people know what is happening to coral reefs.
The documentary sheet has a variety of question types and a teacher answer sheer with guide times for many questions to allow for lesson planning. Three short extension activities to fit around the documentary.
Worksheet includes the following topics:
Marine ecosystems
Polyp structure
Symbiosis
Coral bleaching
Global warming
Climate Change
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Seasonal Forests, Seasonal Change
A comprehensive 24 question worksheet for Green Planet, Seasonal World (BBC Documentary). David Attenborough explores new filming techniques which allow us to enter the plants’ world and see it from their perspective and on their timescale. Between the tropics and the frozen poles lies a region dominated by relentless change in the form of the four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Each one presents plants with huge challenges, from ice and snow to raging fires; from intense competition to surprising enemies. To survive here plants must use strategy, deception and remarkable feats of engineering.
The worksheet includes 24 different styled questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet, with timings for teachers.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Spring, summer, autumn and winter
Seasonal plants
Photosynthesis
Plant and animal interactions
Climate change
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Focus: Desert environment, desert ecosystem and adaptations
A comprehensive 24 question worksheet for Green Planet, Desert World (BBC Documentary). David Attenborough explores new filming techniques which allow us to enter the plants’ world and see it from their perspective and on their timescale. This episode focuses on plant adaptations to desert conditions, where temperatures soar and plummet and water is rare.
The worksheet includes 24 different styled questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet, with timings for teachers.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Desert vegetation
Plant and animal interactions
Adaptations
Climate change
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Documentary: River Yukon, River Study.
A question and answer worksheet based around BBC documentary Earth’s Great Rivers, episode 3, Yukon River. A helpful teacher sheet with answers and timings is included. There are some follow on tasks include describe and explain questions and a mapping task. Could be used to support learning around river ecosystems, river basin animal habitats and adaptations. Good examples of low impact human use of a river. Can be used as a full lesson or used as a stand-alone homework.
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Help your students get the most from the stunning BBC documentary exploring frozen worlds from pole to pole, using a 23 question and answer worksheet.
David Attenborough narrates explores frozen landscapes from pole to pole, revealing the surprising frozen worlds that exist across the planet and the remarkable animals that make them their home.
How to use this sheet
The worksheet has 23 questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet with timings for teachers.
Questions on the worksheet explore the following environments and topics:
• Antarctica
• Himalayas
• Animal adaptation
• Boreal Forests
• Arctic Circle
• Extreme weather events
• Climate change
7 Worlds, 1 Planet: Europe
BBC documentary, currently playing on iPlayer.
A question and answer worksheet based around the 50 minute documentary seven worlds, one planet, episode 5. This documentary is all about Europe and the variable conditions it presents to wildlife.
It could be used to support learning around ecosystems, animal habitats and adaptations or place specific study of urban environments and Europe. Some discussion on how humans impact landscapes in Europe. Can cover a lesson or used as a stand-alone homework.
Topics include:
Animal habitat
The Alps - climate and wildlife
Human impacts on animals
Europe
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This documentary focuses on the heroes on the frontline of conservation who are risking everything in the fight to save wildlife.
This is a question and answer sheet to accompany the documentary Planet Earth 3: Heroes on the BBC.
This worksheet covers the full hour of the documentary. There are a variety of question types used to keep kids engaged and comes with a handy teacher answer sheet with guide times to support lesson planning.
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Question and answer worksheet to accompany BBC documentary series Africa, episode 1 - Kalahari Desert. Designed for use with a year 8 group studying desert environments, but equally could be used for students as part of a place based study of Africa or ecosystems as questions focus on animal adaptations and climate. A teacher answer sheet is provided and there are optional challenge tasks on teacher sheet to round up ideas on animal adaptation and some short exam based questions.
Question and answer worksheet on the grassland biome to accompany the BBC documentary Planet Earth 2: Grasslands. Designed to support studies with additional exam questions at the end as challenge and extension. A teacher sheet is provided. Could also be used for a stand alone homework task in support of an ecosytems and adaptation unit.
Lesson title: Frozen World / Investigating Polar Regions.
A question and answer worksheet based around Netflix documentary Our Planet, Frozen Worlds, episode 2.
Could be used to support learning around ecosystems, animal habitats and adaptations or place specific study of Antarctica and Arctic regions.
PowerPoint covering:
Lesson objective and challenge objective
Choice of starting tasks
Video sheet
Plenary
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Used to support learning around BBC documentary Earth From Space, Changing Earth Episode 4.
A worksheet to support learning about satellite images and how satellite imagery is used around the world. Focuses on changing landscapes and includes commentary and images on deforestation, climate change, retreating glaciers hurricane formation and wildfires. Excellent round up of learning for GCSE geography curriculum. Could be used in lesson or as a homework task. A teacher answer sheet is included.
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