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KS3 & KS4 geography curriculum

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Year 7

Forest biomes: why are forests so important?

12 lessons

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  • Physical systems and processes
  • Risk and resilience
  • Sustainability and climate change

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This unit teaches pupils about the distribution of forest biomes around the world. Pupils will learn about how humans interact with forests and the challenges that can result. Pupils will also learn how humans seek to manage forests to ensure a sustainable future for the biome and the wider world.

This unit draws on prior learning on climate and primary units on ecosystems to develop pupils' understanding of the physical processes occurring in forest biomes and how climate impacts their distribution patterns. The unit is a good introduction to how changes at a regional scale can affect people and the environment on a global scale. Learning from this unit will allow pupils to understand the distribution of ecosystems in future regional units such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Russia.

  1. The forests of the world
  2. The tropical rainforest biome
  3. People's use of the rainforest
  4. Protecting the tropical rainforest
  5. The temperate deciduous forests
  6. Animals and plants in the temperate deciduous forests
  7. The boreal forest biome
  8. People's use of the boreal forest
  9. Climate change and the forests
  10. The Siberian wildfires
  11. Mangroves: forests of the seas
  12. The future of our forests
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