Lesson Three – Rainforest Charities

This geography teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise researching and presenting information about some of the different charities who work to prevent the destruction of the rainforest.
The class can design and present posters using persuasive language outlining reasons as to why different aspects of a rainforest location should be protected from development.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise researching and presenting information about some of the different charities who work to prevent the destruction of the rainforest
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe how to persuade others to protect rainforests around the world and a worksheet to design posters using persuasive language outlining reasons as to why the rainforest should be protected from development.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to research and present information about some of the different charities who work to prevent rainforest destruction.
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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