Popular searches in the last week:

2026, 2027, 2025, plants, english, science, 2023, history, romans, olympics

Earth Summit: the Amazon Basin

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Comparing People and Places Amazon Basin

Download all files

Objectives

Geography

  • Understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography in the Amazon Basin.
  • Describe and understand human and physical geography; use maps and digital/computer mapping to describe features studied.

Computing

  • Select, use and combine a variety of software on a digital device to design and create content that collects, analyses, evaluates and presents data and information

Lesson Planning

Create your final Earth Summit report using data and information gleaned and analysed over the past two sessions. Have a go at creating computer generated graphic representations of data and put together a ‘report findings’ summary.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To create a report on the geographical impact of deforestation in the Amazon Basin.
  • To create graphic representation of data using selected/various software.

Children will:

  • Create a professional report in the form of a PowerPoint presentation, on the impact of economic and trade activities on the human and physical geography of the Amazon Basin.
  • Create online graphic representations of data to accompany an Earth Summit report.

You Will Need

  • Access to a computer or tablet with either Excel or another program/s for creating graphs/charts from data

Log in or sign up to get access to this resource

School Subscription

Reduce teacher workload

From £200 (+ VAT) per year. Access to all key stages for multiple users.

Sign up

Individual Subscription

For inspirational teaching

Just £60 (£50 + VAT) per year to get access to all resources.

Sign up

Early Career Teacher

Develop your teaching

Just £42 (£35 + VAT) to get access to all resources for 2 years.

Sign up

Taster Account

100s of resources

Register to access all free resources.

Sign up

Already subscribed?

Log in to get access.