Lesson Four – Rainforest Harvest
This geography teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore and record information about the lives of a group of people who live and work in the rainforest to harvest some of the natural resources.
The class can identify and explain how different rainforest materials can be used for a range of specific products and functions such as cocoa beans used to make chocolate.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and record information about the lives of a group of people who live and work in the rainforest to harvest some of the natural resources
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the materials that can be harvested from a rainforest, a shared reading text to investigate the work of a group of people who live and work in the rainforest to harvest rubber and differentiated cards to record and list different ways that materials are harvested in a rainforest.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore the work of a group of people who live and work in the rainforest to harvest the natural resources.
This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get the children to identify and describe the physical and human geographical features of tropical rainforests and make comparisons with other locations around the world. 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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