The Rainforest Biome

Take a trek into the depths of the jungle with these Rainforest Biome KS2 Geography lessons as your Year 3 or Year 4 children explore the geography of the rainforests. Your class will explore where rainforests are located in the world, what the different layers of the rainforest are like, who lives in rainforests and much more, all through a variety of engaging resources and activities that are prepped and ready to turn your class into rainforest geography experts!

This Rainforest Biome KS2 Geography planning pack comes fully prepared with everything you need to deliver the lessons, including detailed lesson plans, presentations for each lesson, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable worksheets and resources. With everything ready to download and teach, you can just sit back and enjoy watching your class get immersed in their Rainforest topic! 

You may also like our Rainforest Topic Bundle – four ready-to-teach schemes of work across a range of subjects to create a rainforest-themed cross-curricular topic. 

Rainforest Locations

This Rainforest Locations lesson for KS2 children starts by asking your class what they already know about rainforests and what they think they are like, before locating tropical rainforests on a world map. They will also learn the names of the different continents and use a map to identify continents and countries which have rainforests in them.

Teaching your class about rainforest locations has never been easier – this planning pack comes completely ready to teach, including detailed a lesson plan, a slideshow presentation for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources to support your class as they locate tropical rainforests for themselves.

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Layers of the Rainforest

This Layers of the Rainforest KS2 Geography lesson starts by explaining that the hot and humid climate of the rainforest makes it perfect for plant growth. It then goes on to explore the four layers of the rainforest (the emergent layer, canopy, under storey and the forest floor) and looks and the kinds of plants and animals that can be found at each layer.

Providing everything you need to teach this fascinating lesson, this Layers of the Rainforest KS2 planning pack includes an easy-to-follow lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources, including worksheets, picture cards and challenges, to support your class as they find out about the layers of the rainforest.

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Rainforest Climate

In this Rainforest Climate lesson for KS2 children, your Year 3 or Year 4 class will define the word 'climate' before going on to examine the climate of a tropical rainforest through the use of graphs and charts. They will also find out about the unique role the rainforests play in the water cycle and about convectional rainfall in rainforest environments.

Packed full of great learning, this Rainforest Climate lesson is completely planned and ready to deliver to your class. It comes with a lesson plan that has three differentiated activities, plus an alternative activity idea, a slideshow presentation for the teaching input, and a range of printable resources, including graphs and charts for the children to analyse.

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Rainforest Tribes

Download this Rainforest Tribes KS2 Geography lesson to give your Year 3 or Year 4 class an eye-opening look at some of the indigenous tribes that live in the rainforests, particularly the Yanomami tribe. The included slideshow presentation takes a look at the way of life of rainforest tribes, exploring where they live, what they eat, what they wear, and much more.

During their independent activities, your class can then use what they have learnt about the Yanomami tribe to compare the lifestyle of rainforest tribes to modern western living.

This Rainforest Tribes lesson comes fully planned and ready to teach – a detailed lesson plan, slideshow presentation and a range of printable resources.

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Rainforest Deforestation

This Rainforest Deforestation KS2 Geography lesson looks at the threats that the rainforests are facing and some of the reasons behind rainforest deforestation, as well as the effects this has on the animals, plants and people who live in the rainforests...and beyond. It then challenges your class to think about steps they can take to help save the rainforests from disastrous destruction.

This Rainforest Deforestation KS2 planning pack comes fully prepared and ready to teach, including a lesson plan with differentiated activity ideas, a slideshow for the teaching input, and a range of printable resources to help your class express what they have learnt about rainforest deforestation in a number of ways.

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This Year 3/4 Geography Knowledge Organiser has been created to complement our Physical Geography strand. It is designed to support your children’s understanding of key vocabulary linked to this scheme of work. Key questions and relevant geographical skills have been identified to encourage children to apply their knowledge around this topic.

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