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These worksheets look at the food web of the Amazon Rainforest, identifying producers, herbivores, and carnivores. The students will study positive and negative human intervention statements, identifying them as social, political, or economical. The lesson concludes with writing a report on the best strategies to protect the rainforest and a discussion on which would be the most successful. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

It's that time of year again where a bit of fun in the classroom wont do any harm but to keep it topical here are some country dingbats to try on the students...

Eco-tourism refers to responsible travel to natural areas which conserves the environment and sustains the livelihood of the local people and their economy. These worksheets look specifically at the Galapagos Islands and the Gorilla Safari Trekking Tours available there. The students use a range of mediums including gathering their own research and research from video and print to produce a podcast about eco-tourism and create their own rules for eco-tourism. Whether eco-tourism is always beneficial is discussed alongside whether the students would consider this when booking their next holiday. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation, Instagram @willsoneducation and Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This 17 page booklet allows students to investigate our National Parks. It covers a number of Geographical topics including map work, impacts of tourism and solutions to these and discussion on whether National Parks are still considered important. Some of the titles included in this booklet are: What Is A National Park?, What Makes The New Forest National Park A Honey Pot Site?, What Impacts Can Visitors Have On Our National Parks?, Should The South Downs Have Been Included In Britain’s National Parks? Do We Still Need National Parks?

This unit of work helps students to explore the Amazon Rainforest from the definition of what a rainforest is through to how we and others utilise it. The booklet begins by looking at the world’s biomes, their characteristics and where they are found. The difference between these and ecosystems is investigated, alongside the ecosystem diamond. What defines a rainforest is learnt through drawing and interpretating climate graphs and the nutrient cycle which runs the rainforest. The structure of the rainforest is investigated through poetry before looking into how plants have adapted to thriving in the rainforest as well as its inhabitants, including animals and tribes’ people – The Kayapo Tribe, The Yanomami Tribe, The Matsés Tribe and The Awá Tribe. The students develop their fieldwork skills by field sketching the Iguazu Falls. Some of the foods the rainforest provides us are explored through a taste session while other items which are commonly found at home are explored including medicines. Positive and negative impacts we have on tropical forests are discussed with the students debating which strategies would be best to use going forward. The booklet concludes with the students being given background, the Brazilian governments plan and the effects on the areas environment for them to answer what the benefits there would be for developing the gas resources found at Urucu. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet, including, gathering research from print and video, interpretating poetry, drawing a storyboard, annotating maps, their thoughts, and ideas, drawing graphs and field sketches, completing word-fill paragraphs, asking and answering questions put to others, comparing lifestyles and the completion of an entertaining ‘could you survive in the rainforest?’ quiz. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation, Instagram @willsoneducation and Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

These worksheets help students to explore the fruits, vegetables, medicines, and other everyday objects found in the rainforest. Students are presented with a list of items commonly found at home to highlight how resourceful the rainforest is, and they can try five of these themselves (fruits and nuts). The worksheets conclude with descriptions of the properties of medicine plants with the students having to link these to the recommended symptoms. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this worksheet including food tasting, and annotating their thoughts and ideas. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation, Instagram @willsoneducation and Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

These worksheets look at the large companies and their locations around the work, then focus primarily on a Nike case study in China and the positives and negatives it brings to LEDCs

Coastal management depends on the understanding and pulling together of the different people who use the coastline to cope with the physical processes impacting on the area. The different techniques used will have positive and negative impacts depending on their interests. Tourism, industry, fishing, trade and transport are all land uses along the coastline but with varying interests. These worksheets helps students to understand these different interests and how they can cause problems to one another. The different types fo hard and soft enginerring techniques are discussed as well as whether they think our coastlines should be protected or left to develop naturally.

The Three Gorges is a narrow, steep sided part of the Yangtze River, at five thousand kilometres one of the world’s longest rivers. The valley is home to over four hundred million people and provides over sixty per cent of Chinas rice crop. In 1992 the Chinese government agreed to building the Three Gorges Dam. At an estimated cost of between £17 - £21 Billion and more than two kilometres long and one hundred and fifty meters high it will be the biggest dam in the world at completion in 2009. These worksheets look at the positive and negatives of building the dam, the consiquences and leads to the opposrtunity of a class debate as to whether the Chinese government were right to build the dam.

This revision sheets allows students to revise coasts under different topics such as erosion types, weathering, mass movement, waves, landforms and transportation

This worksheet looks the settlement hierarchy and the key terms associated with it

When looking at maps we can find it difficult to imagine what the landscape looks like if we were actually there. This worksheet explains how to draw a cross-section of Jeju Island, South Korea, by using the contours on a map and following a simple flow diagram. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

The Lighthouse of Alexandria was built on the small island of Pharos as a beacon for sailors having to navigate the tricky harbour. At the time the lighthouses were built this was considered one of the centers of civilisation. Unfortunately the lighthouse no longer stands, it is thought it stood for 1,500 years and survived a tsunami in 365 AD but succumbed to an earthquake in 1303 AD and now lies at the bottom on the Mediterranean where piece are still being found today. Imagine you are a news reporter and you have had the opportunity to do one of the following: ◊ You have been invited to be one of the first people to climb the lighthouse to the observation level ◊ You have been invited along to a dive to recover some of the statues which lay under the Mediterranean – Report what you see under the water and what it’s like to be recovering a piece of history – Report what you see and how you feel

Living within the freezing Arctic Circle isn’t everyone’s idea of home, however about 4 million people do, with 400,000 of these having indigenous origins. These worksheets look specifically at the Inuit People’s homes, involving building a sugar cube igloo, their clothing, beliefs, and how to encourage future generations keep their traditions alive. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within these worksheets, including, gathering research from video, drawing a story board, annotating their thoughts, and ideas. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation, Instagram @willsoneducation and Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

Around 2,200 Matsés live on the Peru-Brazil frontier in the Amazon rainforest. The international boarder that splits their home is the Yaquerana River and it runs through the heart of their land. To the Matsés the streams, floodplains and white-sand forests make up an ancestral territory that is shared by the entire tribe. These worksheets have the students look closely at the acate green tree frog which, as well as being a culinary delicacy, are used to increase hunting ability. Additionally the students investigate an oil company who are exploring the Matses’s land to drill.

The most endangered tribe in the world live deep in the Amazon rainforest, they are an ancient group of around 400 who carry everything they own; their children, their weapons and their pets. These people are so close to being wiped out forever that they are kept safe, away from the modern world. As a result, very few people have ever met the Awá. These worksheets have the students gather information from a video and use it to explain the plight and rescue of the Awa Tribe.

The Kayapo are the indigenous people of Brazil. They live in the plains of the Mato Grosso and Para south of the Amazon Basin and along the Rio Xingu and its tributaries. They call themselves ‘Mebengokre’, which translates to ‘people of the wellspring’. These worksheets have the students explore the Kayapo’s beliefs, examine the differences and simalarities between us and them, as well as giving them an opportunity to research the tribe by answering their peers questions about them

This lesson allows students to identify different fruits and vegetables which originate from India. They sample the foods and give a detailed description of specific fruits. They also have the opportunity to compare differences between ours and traditional Indian meal times

The culture of a group of people is their way of life. It includes their customs, hobbies, foods, fashions, beliefs and traditions; these are dependent of the country they live in, family background, sex and age. Many parts of the world are multicultural which means many different groups of people live alongside one another as a result of moving to new areas to live ad bringing their cultures with them. This is a chance for your students to get out of your seats and, sensibly, move around the classroom gathering evidence with their classmates to learn about India’s culture.

Nine quick multiple choice questions covering the history of Halloween and why it’s celebrated. Perfect for a lesson or assembly introduction, or for tutor time. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.