Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons Teaching PPT to guide students through their self-assessment at the end of this unit with an opportunity to add to the thought shower created at the start of this unit. Fun and engaging orienteering style question cards, summarising this rainforest topic. Whole unit planning.

Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons Clear teaching PPT explaining what deforestation is and its damaging effects with opportunities for students to talk in pairs and discuss engaging questions. Varied and engaging carousel of activities: creating signs for peaceful protests, word link activity, consequences board game and animal diaries. Deforestation fact file to support students, this fact file goes into detail to help students as they complete activities independently. Whole unit planning. NC objectives: Geography Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things

Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons Detailed teaching PPT detailing the largest tribe in the Amazon, the Yanomami. Explore their way of life, focus on the food they eat and how they source it with the help of this resource. An engaging main activity with 2 levels of differentiation, students will identify the foods that tribal people eat and how they source them, some will compare it to food that we eat and how we source it. Whole unit planning. NC Objectives: Geography Describe and understand human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water

Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons -Detailed PPT explaining the difference between vertebrate and invertebrate and introducing some of the rainforest animals. -Interesting and beautifully presented living things facts files to support students learning. World map activity with three levels of differentiation. Students will use the animal fact files to work out the location of animals and add them to the world map, some will add vertebrate/invertebrate and add extra information about each animal. NC objective: Geography Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied Science Y3: explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant

Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons Clear teaching PPT illustrating where on the map of the world the lines of tropics are, explaining the difference between tropical and temperature rainforests and what they mean. -Engaging main activity to find and mark tropical rainforests on the map of the world with three levels of differentiation, some will work towards finding both tropical and temperate rainforests and understanding that tropical rainforests lie within the lines of tropics. Continent maps with tropical and temperate rainforests marked on for students to use as reference points when plotting rainforests on their world map. Geography Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities Identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle, the Prime/Greenwich Meridian and time zones (including day and night)

Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons Thorough teaching PPT explaining definition of climate, weather and biome and modelling the main activity. Engaging create your own weather forecast activity with climate tables to support children completing their weather forecasts. Whole unit planning. Geography Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle. Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities.

Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons -Clear teaching PPT introducing the topic of rainforests with a quiz as a fun way to introduce a range of interesting facts about the topic. -Thought shower template to use as an assessment tool at the start of the lesson. Key word leaf templates for display, laminate and write down key words or facts about rainforests. NC objective: Geography - Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle.