Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the problems that can be caused by different types of pollution, templates to select and record the benefits and disadvantages of different forms of human activity in the world and a set of cards to sort between the benefits and disadvantages of forms of industry that are used to make different products.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore some of the problems that can be caused by different of types of pollution found around the world.

This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get the children to identify, compare and record some of the causes and consequences of different forms of pollution that can affect local and global communities. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.