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.
Hurricane Ida - documentary worksheet
A worksheet to support Earthstorm, Hurricanes episode 4 (Netflix Documentary).
This worksheet helps students explore the formation, preparations, impacts and aftermath of Hurricane Ida.
The worksheet has 11 questions and case study boxes to capture physical, economic, environmental and social impacts. The sheet is set out to capture students attention for the full 43 minutes of the hurricane documentary and helps them create a 1 page case study knowledge organiser.
This worksheet comes with a detailed answer sheet for teachers, including answers and timings.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Hurricane Formation
Hurricane Track (path)
Impacts of Hurricane Ida
Aftermath of Hurricane Ida
Climate Change
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Exploring Four Volcanoes - documentary worksheet
A worksheet to support Earthstorm, Volcanoes episode 2 (Netflix Documentary).
This worksheet helps students explore four case studies of volcanoes across the world. From Iceland to Italy, experts take an in-depth look and provide an inside look at four imposing volcanoes and how they impact the settlements around them.
The worksheet has 21 questions and case study boxes to capture students attention for the full 43 minutes of the volcano documentary.
This worksheet comes with a detailed answer sheet for teachers, including answers and timings for each section.
Volcanoes:
Fagradalsfjall, Iceland
Campi Flegrei, Naples, Italy
Cumbre Vieja, Canary Islands
Masaya, Nicaragua
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Distribution of human settlements
Research and mapping around volcanoes
Impacts of eruptions
Aftermath of volcanic eruptions
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Documentary topic: Water, Rivers, Africa
24 question and answer sheet to accompany the BBC documentary Earth’s Greatest Rivers 2, episode 1, Zambezi River. Documentary follows the river’s course from source to mouth and looks at how animal and human life depends on the river.
The worksheet has 24 questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet for teachers. There is a differentiated follow on worksheet for students to complete to think further around this topic. Designed for study alongside rivers unit, but equally could be used for students as part of a place based study in Southern Africa.
Topics include:
Fact file on the Zambezi
upper, middle and lower course characteristics
Human activity along the river
Flooding
Conservation and management
Downloaded materials include all sheets in both Word and PDF formats.
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Documentary exploring coastal environments.
This is a question and answer sheet to accompany the documentary Planet Earth 3: Coasts on BBC.
Sir David Attenborough explores the dangerous frontiers created by the world’s coasts, where animals fight for survival amidst constant change.
This worksheet focuses on changing coastal environments and includes the following topics:
• Coastal ecosystems
• Seasonal change – Arctic
• Coastal predators – Namibia
• Coastal sanctuaries – Canada
• Protection - Mangrove Forests
• Exposed coasts – Mexico
• Climate Change
This worksheet covers the full 50 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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A 30 question worksheet and follow on sheet to support Breaking Boundaries: The Science of our Planet (Netflix Documentary). David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström examine Earth’s biodiversity collapse and how this crisis can still be averted. The programme explores the impacts on earth’s life support systems: our weather, our oceans and the living world.
The worksheet has 30 questions that cover the full 1hr 15 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet for teachers. There is a differentiated follow on worksheet for students to complete to think further around this topic.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Holocene
Biosphere
Freshwater
Ocean acidification
Energy use
Extreme weather events - droughts
Climate change
Deforestation
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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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7 Worlds, 1 Planet: Antarctica
BBC documentary, currently playing on iPlayer.
A question and answer worksheet based around the 59 minute documentary seven worlds, one planet, episode 1. This documentary is all about Antarctica and the hostile conditions it presents to wildlife.
It could be used to support learning around polar ecosystems, animal habitats and adaptations or place specific study of Polar and Arctic regions. A good amount of discussion on climate change in Antarctica. Can cover a lesson or used as a stand-alone homework.
Topics include:
animal habitat
climate change
southern ocean
winter / spring seasons
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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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7 Worlds, 1 Planet: Asia
BBC documentary, currently playing on iPlayer.
A question and answer worksheet based around the 59 minute documentary seven worlds, one planet, episode 2. This documentary is all about Asia and the diverse conditions it presents to wildlife.
It could be used to support learning around polar ecosystems, animal habitats and adaptations or place specific study of Asia. A good amount of discussion on climate change. A range of environments are covered: deserts, mountains and jungles. Can cover a lesson or used as a stand-alone homework.
Topics include:
animal habitat
animal adaptation
climate change
Note, the worksheet does not include the 10 minute section at the end on how the programme was filmed.
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Documentary exploring Oceans and marine environments.
This is a question and answer sheet to accompany the documentary Planet Earth 3: Oceans on BBC.
Sir David Attenborough explores the shallow tropical seas and deeper ocean environments.
This worksheet focuses on the unexpected and newly explored ocean environments and includes the following topics:
Marine ecosystems
Symbiotic relationships
Shllow seas – Tropics
Kelp Forests
Unexplored deeper oceans*
This worksheet covers the full 50 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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Topics: Water, Rivers, Danube River
22 question and answer sheet to accompany the BBC documentary Earth’s Greatest Rivers 2, episode 2, Danube River. The documentary follows the river’s course from source to mouth and looks at how animal and human life depends on the River Danube.
The worksheet has 22 questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet for teachers. There is a follow on worksheet with exam questions and mapping exercise for students to complete to think further around this topic. Designed for study alongside rivers unit, but equally could be used for students as part of a place based study in Europe.
Topics include:
Fact file on the the Danube
Upper, middle and lower course characteristics
Human activity along the river
Flooding
Conservation and management
Downloaded bundle includes all sheets in both Word and PDF formats.
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A 20 question worksheet and differentiated follow on activity to support A Perfect Planet - Volcanoes (BBC Documentary). The programme looks at how without volcanoes, there would be no life on Earth. Although destructive, magma from the planet’s molten core builds land, and mineral-rich ash from eruptions fertilises the surface.
The worksheet has 20 questions, using a variety of question stems, that cover the full 50 minute documentary. To support staff a detailed answer sheet is included. I have also included a differentiated follow on worksheet for students to reflect on their learning from the documentary.
Worksheet includes the following topics:
Volcanoes
Advantages and disadvantages of volcanic environments
Ecosystem
Benefits and risks of habitats
Variety of land ecosystems
Animal adaptation
Climate change
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Documentary exploring forest ecosystems.
This is a question and answer sheet to accompany the documentary Planet Earth 3: Forests on BBC.
This worksheet explore the unexpected connections and communications across forest environments and includes the following topics:
*Ecosystems ecosystems
Symbiotic relationships
Animal adaptations
Deforestation
Plantations
Key plants e.g. kapok tress
Animal and human interactions*
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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Seasonal Forests, Seasonal Change
A comprehensive 24 question worksheet for Green Planet, Seasonal 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. Between the tropics and the frozen poles lies a region dominated by relentless change in the form of the four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Each one presents plants with huge challenges, from ice and snow to raging fires; from intense competition to surprising enemies. To survive here plants must use strategy, deception and remarkable feats of engineering.
The worksheet includes 24 different styled questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet, with timings for teachers.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Spring, summer, autumn and winter
Seasonal plants
Photosynthesis
Plant and animal interactions
Climate change
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BBC documentary: Horizon 2020: 1. Chris Packham: 7.7 Billion People and Counting.
BBC documentary, currently on iPlayer.
A question and answer worksheet based around the 58 minute horizon documentary on population and earth resources. This documentary is about Chris’s view that a world of ten billion may simply be too many people for the earth to sustain, given the impact 7.7 billion humans are already having. Travelling around the globe in search of answers to difficult and sometimes controversial questions, Chris investigates why our population is growing so rapidly, what impact it is having on the natural world, and whether there is anything that can be done. .
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It could be used to support learning around population increase, urban living and resource management. Can cover a lesson or used as a stand-alone homework.
I have included a short exam question to complete at the end of the lesson or for a follow up at another point.
Topics include:
Population increase
Birth rates
Resource management
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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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**Documentary exploring forest ecosystems.
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This is a question and answer sheet to accompany the documentary Planet Earth 3: Extremes on the BBC.
David Attenborough reveals the extraordinary ways in which animals battle to survive the elements in a world of extremes - places where life exists on a knife edge. From mountain summits to scorching deserts, polar tundra to deep underground caves, these remote places are rarely visited, yet the animals that survive there are some of the most resilient and specially adapted on Earth.
Animal and plant adaptations across a range of different environments:
Polar
Mountain
Desert
Cave
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.
If you choose to purchase this sheet and leave a review, I would be happy to send you a free resource from my shop as a thank you (docgeog@gmail.com).
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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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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.
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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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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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