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.
A 20 question worksheet and follow on activity sheet to support A Perfect Planet - The Ocean (BBC Documentary). The programme looks at the key forces around oceans of currents, winds and waves. Without the constant mixing of currents, tides and waves, our oceans would stop supporting life - and a healthy ocean is vital to a healthy planet.
The worksheet has 20 questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary. To support staff a comphrehensive answer sheet is included for teachers. There is an additional differentiated follow on worksheet for students to complete to think further around this topic.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Oceans
Currents and wind
Wave formations
Marine ecosystems
Coastal zones and mangrove forests
Animal adaptation
Climate change
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A 20 question worksheet and follow on activity to support A Perfect Planet - The Sun (BBC Documentary). The programme looks at frozen poles to the searing deserts, and explores how animals have come up with strategies to survive the uneven amounts of sunlight that fall on our planet.
The worksheet has 20 questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary. A comprehensive answer sheet is included for teachers. There is an additional differentiated follow on worksheet for students to complete to think further around this topic.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
The sun
Earth tilt
seasons and sunlight hours around the globe
Ecosystem (including the Amazon, Sahara and polar regions)
Benefits and risks of habitats
Animal adaptation
Climate change
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Documentary to support Weather and Climate lessons.
A question and answer worksheet (and follow on sheet) to support A Perfect Planet - Weather (BBC Documentary). The programme explores how weather controls the distribution of freshwater around our planet. In turn, this shapes the lives of animals across the globe, leading to incredible diversity of species and habitats.
The worksheet has 20 questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary. To support staff a teacher answer sheet is included for staff unfamiliar with the topic. There is an additional differentiated worksheet to allow students to reflect further on their learning.
Documentary and worksheet cover the following topics:
Weather and climate
monsoons
drought
Ecosystems (including Amazon Rainforest and Gobi Desert)
Animal adaptation
Climate change
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A 20 question worksheet and follow on activity to support A Perfect Planet - Weather (BBC Documentary). The programme looks at how weather controls the distribution of freshwater around our planet. In turn, how this water shapes the lives of animals across the globe, rising to an incredible diversity of species and habitats.
The worksheet uses a variety of different questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary. A comprehensive answer sheet is included for staff who are unfamiliar with the documentary. There is a differentiated follow on sheet so students can reflect further on their learning.
Worksheet includes the following topics:
seasonal weather patterns
Global weather and climates
Advantages and disadvantages of different weather patterns
Ecosystems including Amazon Rainforest and the Gobi Desert
Benefits and risks of habitat change
Animal adaptation
Climate change
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A question and answer worksheet (with follow on sheet) to support A Perfect Planet - Volcanoes (BBC Documentary). The programme looks at how without volcanoes, there would be no life on Earth. Although destructive, magma from the planet’s molten core builds land, and mineral-rich ash from eruptions fertilises the surface.
The worksheet has 20 questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary. To support staff a teacher answer sheet is included. There is a differentiated worksheet for students to reflect on their learning after they watch the documentary.
Worksheet includes the following topics:
Volcanoes
Advantages and disadvantages of volcanic environments
Ecosystem
Benefits and risks of habitats
Variety of land ecosystems
Animal adaptation
Climate change
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A 20 question worksheet and differentiated follow on activity to support A Perfect Planet - Volcanoes (BBC Documentary). The programme looks at how without volcanoes, there would be no life on Earth. Although destructive, magma from the planet’s molten core builds land, and mineral-rich ash from eruptions fertilises the surface.
The worksheet has 20 questions, using a variety of question stems, that cover the full 50 minute documentary. To support staff a detailed answer sheet is included. I have also included a differentiated follow on worksheet for students to reflect on their learning from the documentary.
Worksheet includes the following topics:
Volcanoes
Advantages and disadvantages of volcanic environments
Ecosystem
Benefits and risks of habitats
Variety of land ecosystems
Animal adaptation
Climate change
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A question and answer worksheet to support a BBC documentary on offshore gas stations, called Powering Britain: Gas This 30 minute documentary introduces students to an offshore gas station.
The documentary sheet has a variety of question types that covers the 30 minute documentary. To support staff the worksheet includes timings for each question.
Worksheet includes the following topics:
Offshore gas stations
Substations
Support stations
Staff
Mainline support services
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A question and answer worksheet to support a BBC documentary on offshore gas stations, called Powering Britain: Gas This 30 minute documentary introduces students to an offshore gas station.
The documentary sheet has a variety of question types that covers the 30 minute documentary. To support staff the worksheet includes timings for each question.
Worksheet includes the following topics:
Offshore gas stations
Substations
Support stations
Staff
Mainline support services
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A question and answer worksheet to support a BBC documentary on wind farms, called Powering Britain: Wind Power. This 30 minute documentary introduces students to the Hornsea1 offshore wind farms.
The documentary sheet has a variety of question types that covers the 30 minute documentary. To support staff the worksheet includes timings for each question.
Worksheet includes the following topics:
Wind farms
Substations
Mainline support services
Impact on Grimsey area
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A question and answer worksheet to support a BBC documentary on wind farms, called Powering Britain: Wind Power. This 30 minute documentary introduces students to the Hornsea1 offshore wind farms.
The documentary sheet has a variety of question types that covers the 30 minute documentary. To support staff the worksheet includes timings for each question.
Worksheet includes the following topics:
Wind farms
Substations
Mainline support services
Impact on Grimsey area
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BBC documentary: Horizon 2020: 1. Chris Packham: 7.7 Billion People and Counting.
BBC documentary, currently on iPlayer.
A question and answer worksheet based around the 58 minute horizon documentary on population and earth resources. This documentary is about Chris’s view that our world is suffering from overpopulation, given the impact 7.7 billion humans are already having. Travelling around the globe in search of answers to difficult and sometimes controversial questions, Chris investigates why our population is growing so rapidly, what impact it is having on the natural world, and whether there is anything that can be done.
This resource could be used to support learning around population increase, urban living and resource management. Can cover a lesson or used as a stand-alone homework.
I have included a short exam question to complete at the end of the lesson or for a follow up at another point.
Topics include:
Overpopulation
Population increase
Birth rates
Resource management
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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 sheet 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
Documentary sharing a number of innovative solutions around the world to manage water usage, water supply and sanitation.
Question and answer sheet looking at a range of sustainable solutions across the globe to deal with water wastage, waste water, sanitation and sustainable water supplies. The documentary sheet has a variety of question types that covers the full 50 minutes. It comes with an answer sheet and includes one short task for students to summarise their learning and a suggested extension for home learning.
Worksheet includes the following topics:
Sewage systems
Water scarcity
Climate Change
Overuse of water
Small and large scale solutions
Nelfix: Brave Blue World - Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis
Time: 50 minutes
A question and answer worksheet to support David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet (Netflix). This film introduces students to the threats to biodiversity and loss of wilderness facing our planet, caused by human activity. David Attenborough outlines the threats that our planet are facing in different biomes before sharing key solutions, linked to case studies around the world.
The documentary sheet has a variety of question types that covers the full 1.32 hour documentary. To support staff the worksheet includes timings for each question and a short guidance to help teachers provide breaking down the questions across different timed lessons.
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Worksheet includes the following topics:
Holocene
Biodiversity
Ecosystem
Habitat
Symbiosis
Variety of marine and land ecosystems
Climate change
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Documentary exploring the Great Barrier Reef and coral reefs.
Question and answer sheet to accompany the documentary: Wonders of the Great Barrier Reef on BBC iPlayer. This film introduces students to the importance of coral reef ecosystems, the threats they are facing, climate change and what signs of resurrection that can be found along the Great Barrier Reef. Used with a KS3 class to introduce the coral reef ecosystems.
The question sheet has a variety of question types and a teacher answer sheet for lesson planning.
Worksheet includes the following topics:
Marine ecosystems
Polyp
Symbiosis
Coral bleaching
Global warming
Climate Change
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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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Tales from the National Parks: The Lake District.
Currently found on YouTube and originally BBC iPlayer.
Question and answer sheet to accompany the Lake District documentary: Tales from the National Parks. This episode introduces the viewer to the proposed zip line a across a valley in the Lake District. We see arguments for and against from different park users. Could be used as an introduction to stakeholder conflict in National Parks. Teacher answer sheet also provided.
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Tales from the National Park: The Peak District.
Question and answer sheet to accompany the national park documentary: Tales from the National Park. This episode introduces the viewer to the conflict around green roads throughout the Peak District National Park. We see arguments for and against different uses and includes stakeholder views from local government, police, residents and leisure users. Could be used as an introduction to stakeholder conflict in National Parks or as a study of the Peak District. Teacher answer sheet also provided.
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Primates: Secrets of Survival
BBC documentary, currently playing on iPlayer.
A question and answer worksheet based around the 50 minute documentary Primates. This documentary is all about the strategies monkeys, apes and lemurs must use to survive in the most unexpected places.
It could be used to support learning around ecosystems, adaptations or primate survival characteristics. Can cover a lesson or used as a stand-alone homework.
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BBC Documentary: Snow Animals
A question and answer worksheet based around the 59 minute documentary Snow Animals. This documentary is all about how animals cope with the hostile conditions it presents to wildlife and the strategies they use.
Great for a Christmas themed Geography
It could be used to support learning around polar or northern ecosystems, animal habitats and adaptations in winter conditions. A good amount of discussion on animal adapatation. Can cover a lesson or used as a stand-alone homework.
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