Development in Brazil - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

Students will start with 5 quick questions from their previous lessons on the human features of South America and Brazil. Students will then be introduced by what development is and then describe the location of developed countries within South America. Then introducing indicators of development students should identify if these are social, economic or environmental factors. Using a choropleth map students are then to describe the most well developed countries in South America. Students are then tested with 6 questions about what they have learnt so far. Using their information sheet students are then to evaluate which sustainable development goal they would choose to focus on for each country and why.

Task 1: Knowledge Retention
Task 2: Identify most developed countries in South America
Task 3: Identify social, economic and environmental indicators of development
Task 4: Describe the countries with the highest HDI
Task 5: Recap knowledge
Task 6: Evaluate which sustainable development goal each country should choose and why.

This lesson is fully resourced and comes with a powerpoint and worksheet.