Year 8 Brazil Scheme of Work
Key Question
What is Brazil like?
1.
Where is Brazil?
2.
Content
Brainstorm
Brazil.
Map labelling
exercise
Learning Objective
To know the location
of Brazil in the
continent of South
America
Activities
1. Students brainstorm
Brazil in small groups
2. Students label
Countries and their
capitals on an outline
map of South
America
1. Map main
regions of Brazil
2. Compare the
regions in term of
population
distribution
1. Watch rainforest
video
2. Draw and label
cross section of
the rainforest
Resources
Atlas and map outline
sheet
Key Words
Continent
South America
Brazil
Where do people live
in Brazil?
Identify the different
regions of Brazil, and
examine differences
between them.
To be able to compare
regions in Brazil in
terms of population
distribution.
Outline map of Brazil
Key Geography
Places p18/19
Population
Distribution
Inhabitants
Densely populated
Sparsely populated
What is the Amazon
rainforest like?
Investigate climate,
flora and fauna of the
rainforest.
To know the main
features of the
Amazon rainforest.
Video TRF – Natural
environments (32)
Key Geography
Interactions
Buttress roots
Lianas
Canopy
Emergents
How does the Forest
recycle itself?
Examine the nutrient
cycle in the Rainforest
To understand the
rainforest nutrient
cycle.
1.
Complete forest
cycle sheet
Forest cycle
worksheet
Humus
Nutrients
Recycle
Fertile
Who lives in the
rainforest?
Examine the way of
the life of one of the
rainforests tribes.
To understand how
native Amazonians
are able to live in
harmony with the trf.
1.
2.
Video
Complete Q 1- 4
Key Geography
Places p26/27
Video – GE Living in
the forest (33)
Key Geography
Places
Assessment
Homework
Find out 10 facts
about Brazil.
Draw the
Brazilian flag.
Write a poem
about the
Amazonian
Rainforest, or
Find out the
names of 20
animals which
live in the
rainforest, or
Write a post card
from the
rainforest.
How does the
rainforest compare to
Hull?
Compare and contrast
the rainforest
environment with that
of Hull.
To be able to compare
and contrast the
climate and
environment.
1.
2.
3.
What is happening in
the Amazon
rainforest?
Can development be
sustainable?
Examine the impact
of human
development within
the Amazonian
Rainforest and make
valued judgements
about its future.
To know the impact
of ‘development’ in
the Amazon
Rainforest.
Examine the methods
by which timber
logging can be a
sustainable industry.
To know the meaning
of the term
sustainable
development.
1.
2.
1.
2.
Draw climate
graphs for
Manaus and the
rainforest (More
able)
Describe and
explain the
differences
between the two
areas.
Compare way of
life in the
rainforest and
Hull
Students watch
Amazon Frontier
video and take
notes during the
video.
Complete Q 1- 5
on p29 – of Key
Geography
Places
Video –
Sustainability and
the forest
Complete Q 1 – 4
on p37 of Key
Geography
Places.
1.
2.
Climate work
sheets
Comparison work
sheets
Precipitation
Temperature
Video – Amazon
Frontiers (23)
Video – TRF – Man’s
affect (32)
Key Geography
Places
Deforestation
Overgrazing
Hydroelectric power
Ranching
Key Geography
Places
Sustainable
development
Design a poster to
encourage people
to protect the
TRF.
Assessment
question:
Unless action is
taken the
Amazon
rainforest will
be lost forever.
What is can be
done to reduce
the damage to
the rainforest?
[ levels can be
awarded by using
the level description
document]
What is Sao Paulo
like?
How does Sao Paulo
compare with the
rainforest?
Compare and contrast
the living conditions
of the rich and poor in
Sao Paulo.
Compare and contrast
the characteristics of
the two regions
(Rainforest and Sao
Paulo).
To be able to contrast
the living conditions
of rich and poor
people living in Sao
Paulo.
1.
To be able to compare
and contrast two
regions in Brazil in
terms of economic
development.
1.
2.
2.
How developed is
Brazil?
How interdependent
is Brazil?
Compare and contrast
development statistics
for Brazil and other
countries
Examine the ways in
which Brazil can be
described as more or
less economically
developed.
Examine the way
Brazil is set within a
global context and
how it is
interdependent with
other countries.
To be able to use PC
globe to compare
statistics for Brazil
with other countries
To be able to use
development
indicators to establish
Brazils level of
economic
development.
To know how Brazil
is set within a global
context and how it is
interdependent with
other countries.
1.
Students watch
video comparing
rich and poor Sao
Paulo
Students compare
life of rich and
poor in Sao Paulo
Q1 – 5 p25 of
Key Geography
Places
Student
brainstorm
differences
between the
Amazon
Rainforest and
Southeast (Sao
Paulo) of Brazil.
Complete Q 1- 4
on p30/31 of Key
Geography Places
PC Globe
2.
Complete Q 1-5
on p33 of Key
Geography Places
1.
2.
Video
Complete Q1-5
on p35 of Key
Geography
Places
Video – City of
Newcomers (23)
Key Geography
Places
Favela
Shanty town
Key Geography
Places
Economic
development
PC Globe – Computer
room Compare
statistics for Brazil
with other countries
Key Geography
Places
GNP
Developed country
Developing country
Economic indicators
Social indicators
Key Geography
Places
Video – Progress –
but for whom? (23)
Interdependence
Imports
Exports
Trading surplus
Imagine you live
in a Favela. Write
a postcard to a
pen friend in Hull
telling them about
life in a slum area.
End of unit
assessment
Find 10 things
that are exported
from Brazil.