Lesson One – Rainforest Protection

This geography teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore and record some of the reasons as to why rainforests around the world should be protected from human development in the future.
The class can explain and illustrate how different forms of human activity might have an impact of aspects of rainforest life such as clearing trees to make farming land.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and record some of the reasons as to why rainforests around the world should be protected from human development in the future
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe reasons for the protection of a rainforest location and a template to select and record reasons as to why development should not be allowed in a rainforest habitat.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore and record some of reasons as to why rainforests should be protected from human development.
This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get the children to identify, illustrate and debate some of the different reasons as to how and why tropical rainforests should be protected and conserved for the future. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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