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.
Environments covered: fresh water, coastal zone
A comprehensive 20 question worksheet for Green Planet, Water World (BBC Documentary). David Attenborough explores new filming techniques which allow us to enter the plants’ world and see adaptations fresh water plants use to survive in their under water environments.
The worksheet includes 20 different styled questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet, with timings for teachers.
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Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Fresh water vegetation
Aquatic plants
Photosynthesis
Plant and animal interactions
Climate change
Salt water ecosytem - seagrass
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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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Help your students get the most from episode 3 of the BBC documentary exploring mountain environments, using a comprehensive 21 question and answer worksheet.
David Attenborough explores frozen mountain habitats, found on every continent on Earth, and looks at the unique challenges for its surprising and remarkable life.
How to use this sheet
The worksheet has 21 questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet with timings for teachers.
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Questions on the worksheet explore the following environments and topics:
• Mountain environments
• Animal adaptation
• Avalanches
• Extreme weather
• Climate change
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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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Title: Our Guy In China
Question and answer sheet to accompany Channel 4 documentary: Our Guy in China, episode 1. Used to support KS3 students in their study of China. Teacher answer sheet provided. Could be used in lesson or as a stand alone homework task.
Topic content:
City of Chongqing
Manufacturing in China
Three Gorges Dam
Rural recycling practices
Shanghai
Length of documentary: 47 minutes
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Question and answer worksheet that goes with the BBC documentary: Sacred River with Simon Reeves - The Ganges.
A geography focus on The Ganges River and how humans interact with the river basin. Looks at how the river landscape changes over time and the range of human activities taking place within the river system. This would be a good introduction to human use of a river or as a place based study on The Ganges. A teacher answer sheet has been provided with a short set of extension/ challenge questions. Could be used in classroom or for homework.
Documentary: 1 hour long
Topics covered:
River landscape -changes
India’s development
Religion and Shiva
Pollution
Earth From Space / Using Satellite Images in Geography
A worksheet to support BBC documentary Earth Fro Space, episode 1. Used to help students learn about satellite images and how they are used around the world. Focuses on monitoring changing animal behaviour in different ecosystems and changing landscapes. Could be used as part of a lesson on satellite images or as a geography skills homework task.
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Alaska - Earths Frozen Kingdom
Available on Netflix and BBC
A question and answer sheet on how animals and humans prepare for spring in Alaska. Could be used to support learning around tundra ecosystems, spring food chains, animal adaptations or as a USA place specific study. Can cover a lesson or used as a stand-alone homework. Teacher sheet provided.
Used to support learning around BBC documentary Earth From Space, Changing Earth Episode 4.
A worksheet to support learning about satellite images and how satellite imagery is used around the world. Focuses on changing landscapes and includes commentary and images on deforestation, climate change, retreating glaciers hurricane formation and wildfires. Excellent round up of learning for GCSE geography curriculum. Could be used in lesson or as a homework task. A teacher answer sheet is included.
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Documentary BBC: Dynasty: Emperor Penguins
Episode: 2
Length: 48 minutes (+10 minutes for ‘how we filmed’ section
Question and answer sheet to go alongside the BBC documentary filmed in the Antarctic. Look at how the seasons in polar regions impact one animals survival and how they adapt to meet the challenges. Teacher answer sheet provided.
India Documentary: India Natures Wonderland Episode 1.
Question and answer sheet linked to the BBC documentary on India. The content covers different animals and habitats across India and how humans interact with nature. Designed for KS3 as a homework sheet but could be used in lesson to introduce or sum up the diverse environments found in India.
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A 20 question worksheet to support Earth: The Power of the Planet documentary. The first episode focused on the physical processes surrounding volcanoes and tectonic processes. Dr Iain Stewart reveals the role natural forces have played in the creation of the planet Earth. Although volcanoes appear to be destructive, volcanoes have been crucial to the development of life. Iain’s journey takes him to Ethiopia to discover lava lakes, to Iceland to scuba dive between continents and to New Zealand to sample some hot springs.
The worksheet has 20 questions, in varying styles that covers the full 1 hour documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet for teachers.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Active volcanoes
Earth’s core
Plate boundaries
Earthquakes
Erosion and transportation
Climate Change
C02 storage
Subduction
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Help your students get to grips with the changing environment caused by climate change using this sheet to explore episode 3 of Our Living World - Breaking Point (Netflix documentary).
Students gain a greater understanding of changing climatic conditions across a wide range of environments, watching while completing this ready to use question and answer sheet.
How to use this sheet
This ready to use worksheet has 24 questions that cover the full 51 minute documentary. It comes with a detailed answer sheet with timings for teachers.
Extended learning worksheet
The documentary worksheet comes along with an extended learning worksheet to delve deeper into this subject. Questions focus on key terms and then offer an differentiated questions which can be used in class or as a follow on home learning task.
The worksheets explore the following topics:
• Ecosystems - plants, animals, climate
• Animal adaptation
• Climate Change
• Extreme weather events: volcanoes and hurricanes
• Changing food webs
This sheet comes ready to use and in both PDF and Word formats.
Help your students get to grips with the tropical rainforest environment of the Congo using this sheet to explore episode 1 of Wilderness with Simon Reeves - The Congo (BBC documentary).
Students gain a greater understanding of the environment and the people who live within the Congo, watching while completing this ready to use question and answer sheet.
Details on the programme
Simon Reeve travels through the Congo, the second-greatest rainforest on earth. In one of the toughest journeys he’s ever undertaken, Simon travels five hundred miles across dense tropical jungle, heading for the region of Salonga, where he searches for one of the rarest and most iconic creatures on the continent - the bonobo
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The worksheet has 19 questions that cover the full 60 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet with timings for teachers.
Questions on the worksheet explore the following environments and topics:
• Tropical rainforest
• Congo, East Africa
• Ecosystems - plants, animals, climate
• Animal adaptation
• Deforestation
This sheet comes ready to use and in both PDF and Word formats.
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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A comprehensive 25 question worksheet and follow on activity for Green Planet, Tropical World (BBC Documentary). David Attenborough explores new filming techniques which allow us to enter the plants’ world and see it from their perspective and on their timescale. From fast-growing trees to flowers that mimic dead animals, this is a journey into a magical world that operates on a different timescale to our own.
The worksheet includes 25 different styled questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet, with timings for teachers. There is a differentiated follow on activity for students to complete to think further around this topic.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Rainforest vegetation
Tropical plants
Photosynthesis
plant and animal interactions
Climate change
Deforestation
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Documentary sharing highlights from the Planet Earth series, from hidden forests and turbulent coasts to vast, unexplored deserts. .
This is a question and answer sheet to accompany the documentary Planet Earth 3: Wonders of Nature on the BBC.
This worksheet focuses on change, challenge and adaptation across a variety of environments:
• Deserts – Nahmib
• Coastal sanctuaries – survival techniques
• Rainforest - communication and animal symbiosis
• Grassland - new hunting techniques and seasonal change
• Interactions with human populations
• Climate Change
This worksheet covers the full hour of the documentary. There are a variety of question types used to keep students engaged and comes with a handy teacher answer sheet with guide times to support lesson planning.
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This documentary focuses on how wildlife must now adapt to a vastly altered landscape humans have created.
This is a question and answer sheet to accompany the documentary Planet Earth 3: Extremes on the BBC.
Animal adaptations across a range of different environments and behaviours include:
stealing macaques
migrating rhinos
foraging city bears
hungry pavement ants
This worksheet covers the full 45 minutes of the documentary. There are a variety of question types used to keep kids engaged and comes with a handy teacher answer sheet with guide times to support lesson planning.
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This documentary focuses on the heroes on the frontline of conservation who are risking everything in the fight to save wildlife.
This is a question and answer sheet to accompany the documentary Planet Earth 3: Heroes on the BBC.
This worksheet covers the full hour of the documentary. There are a variety of question types used to keep kids engaged and comes with a handy teacher answer sheet with guide times to support lesson planning.
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