Geography lesson activity: Should the rainforest be developed?
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For key stage 3 geography: embedding logovisual thinking skills in your classrooms. This tried and tested lesson plan will help teachers to help students gain an understanding of environmental change and sustainable development
This is a geography lesson activity that is available to download, and has been tried and tested by Tividale High School in Sandwell and will help you to achieve these learning objectives:
- to develop learners’ understanding of the reasons for and against different ways of developing the rainforest
- to carry out a decision-making exercise and reach a conclusion
- to stimulate discussion and thereby apply the skills of the literacy strategy to geography for generating an evaluative piece of writing, to be completed for homework.
Written by Brin Best, Anthony Blake and John Varney
