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.
Documentary on Woodland Ecosystems
A comprehensive 21 question worksheet for Woodlands, Wild Isles (BBC Documentary).
Sir David Attenborough explores the incredible diversity of Britain’s woodlands, taking us on a seasonal journey through our forests, and revealing a host of spectacular animals and the hidden dramas that rule their lives.
The worksheet includes 21 different styled questions that cover the full 45 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet, with timings for teachers.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Habitats
Food chains
Plant and animal interactions
Human impacts
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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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Eden: Untamed Planet (Episode 4 Galapagos)
A 21 question worksheet to support this documentary about the Galapagos Islands.
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Dcoumentary blurb**
Discovering how the Galapagos became one of the most important areas of biodiversity in the world. Only the hardiest pioneers could reach this otherworldly outpost - tossed here by storms and strong currents, but they found a virgin land of endless possibilities. With no competition, they could rule supreme turning this seemingly inhospitable place into their very own Eden.
How to use
The worksheet has 21 questions that cover the full 49 minute documentary and comes with a detailed and clear answer sheet for teachers.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
animal adaptation
biodiversity
pioneers
marine and land environments
symbiotic relationships
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Africa, Namib, Desert Ecosystems
A question and answer worksheet to go with Namib Desert: Skeleton Coast and Beyond (Eden Episode 2). A iconic desert found in South West Africa.
This documentary on Namib, focuses on one of the oldest deserts in the world. With 50 degree temperatures and annual rainfall that is measured in millimetres, the documentary looks at animal adaptations to help survival.
How to use this resource
The worksheet has 22 questions that cover the full 48 minute documentary and comes with a detailed and clear answer sheet for teachers.
Questions on the following topics:
Desert ecosystems
Climate
Coastal region
Animal adaptations
Food chains
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A 20 question worksheet and follow on activity to support A Perfect Planet - The Sun (BBC Documentary). The programme looks at frozen poles to the searing deserts, and explores how animals have come up with strategies to survive the uneven amounts of sunlight that fall on our planet.
The worksheet has 20 questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary. A comprehensive answer sheet is included for teachers. There is an additional differentiated follow on worksheet for students to complete to think further around this topic.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
The sun
Earth tilt
seasons and sunlight hours around the globe
Ecosystem (including the Amazon, Sahara and polar regions)
Benefits and risks of habitats
Animal adaptation
Climate change
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Documentary exploring the changing coral reefs.
Question and answer sheet to accompany the documentary: Chasing Coral on Netflix. This film introduces students to the importance of coral reef ecosystems, the threats they are facing, climate change and how what one group of people are doing to let people know what is happening to coral reefs.
The documentary sheet has a variety of question types and a teacher answer sheet with guide times for many questions to allow for lesson planning. Three short extension activities to fit around the documentary.
Worksheet includes the following topics:
Marine ecosystems
Polyp structure
Symbiosis
Coral bleaching
Global warming
Climate Change
A comprehensive 24 question worksheet for Green Planet, Human World (BBC Documentary). Two out of five wild plants are threatened with extinction. Hear more about current threats, how crops and cultivation change our green planet and how people are finding remarkable ways to help plant species thrive.
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:
Plants in urban environments
Farming
Crops and cultivation
Monocultures
Plant and human interactions
Climate change
Management of vulnerable species
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Primates: Secrets of Survival
BBC documentary, currently playing on iPlayer.
A question and answer worksheet based around the 50 minute documentary Primates. This documentary is all about the strategies monkeys, apes and lemurs must use to survive in the most unexpected places.
It could be used to support learning around ecosystems, adaptations or primate survival characteristics. Can cover a lesson or used as a stand-alone homework.
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Netflix documentary: Night on Earth - Jungle Nights
Question worksheet to accompany the Netflix documentary Night on Earth: Jungle Nights, episode 3. Planned for a group with a year 8 group studying adaptations in jungle or equatorial ecosystems, but equally could be used for students as part of a place based study in Africa or South American environments for example. A teacher answer sheet is provided and there are optional extension / homework tasks to round up ideas from this documentary.
Topics include:
Adaptation to different environments
Characteristics of hunters in jungle ecosystems
Plant adaptation in jungle environments
Survival techniques of prey
Hunting techniques
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Netflix documentary: Night on Earth - Moonlit Plains
Regions covered: African plains, savannah, desert and dune environments.
Question worksheet to accompany the Netflix documentary Night on Earth: Moonlit Plains, episode 1. Used with a year 7 group studying adaptations in different ecosystems, but equally could be used for students as part of a place based study in Africa, savannah or desert environments for example. A teacher answer sheet is provided and there are optional extension / homework tasks to round up ideas from this documentary.
Topics include:
Adaptation to different environments
Characteristics of hunters in African Plains
Plant adaptation in Mexican Desert
Survival techniques of prey
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A question and answer worksheet based around Netflix documentary Our Planet, Frozen Worlds, episode 2.
Could be used to support learning around polar and tundra ecosystems, animal habitats and adaptations or place specific study of Polar and Arctic regions. Some discussion on climate change impact in Antarctica and the Arctic. Can cover a lesson or used as a stand-alone homework.
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Unit: National Parks, Wild Spaces
Help your students engage meaningfully with this National Parks documentary.
What is included?
There are 27 different questions, spanning the** full 50 minutes** of this documentary, keeping your students interested throughout. A teacher answer sheet, with helpful timings is included, to minimize your planning.
You will find a two page follow on activity included, which can be used within the lesson or as homework to help your children think further around the topic. The follow on task is differentiated so it can be used with a mixed ability class.
All worksheets downloaded in this bundle are both in Word and PDF format.
Our Great National Parks - World of Wonder
Our Great National Parks - Episode 1, World of Wonder
From Africa’s beaches to Japan’s islands to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef - the natural world’s untamed beauty comes into gorgeous focus.
Topics covered in this documentary:
Wide variety of national parks
Advantages of wild spaces
Threats to wild spaces
Animal adaptations to their environments
Extreme environments
Human and animal interactions
Climate Change
Example of sustainable management
What are you waiting for? Download these worksheets to help your classes get 90+ minutes of well planned and captivating activities around this inspiring National Parks documentary.
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Unit: National Parks, Kenya, Tsavo National Park
Help your students engage meaningfully with this National Parks documentary set in Kenya.
Our Great National Parks - Episode 2, Tsavo National Park.
What is included?
There are 28 different questions, spanning the** full 50 minutes** of this documentary, keeping your students interested throughout. A teacher answer sheet, with helpful timings is included, to minimize your planning.
You will find a two page follow on activity included, which can be used within the lesson or as homework to help your children think further around the topic. The follow on task is differentiated so it can be used with a mixed ability class.
All worksheets downloaded in this bundle are both in Word and PDF format.
Our Great National Parks –Tsavo, Kenya
In Kenya’s Tsavo National Park, thousands of elephants roam the breath-taking, vast landscape, along with hippos, rhinos, hornbills and more.
Topics covered in this documentary:
Environment in different parts of the park
Climate and dry seasons
Threats to wild spaces
Animal adaptations to their environments
Extreme environments
Human and animal interactions
Sustainable management
What are you waiting for? Download these worksheets to help your classes get 90+ minutes of well-planned and captivating activities around this inspiring National Parks documentary.
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 changing environment caused by climate change using this sheet to explore episode 1 of Our Living World - Nature’s Networks (Netflix documentary).
Students gain a greater understanding of how different animals and plants interact within a wider network across a wide range of environments, while completing this ready to use question and answer sheet.
How to use this sheet
This ready to use worksheet has 22 questions that cover the full 55 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
• Extreme events: wildfire, drought
• Changing food webs
• Interconnected networks
This sheet comes ready to use and in both PDF and Word formats.