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The Amazon Basin in numbers

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

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Objectives

Geography

  • Locate the Amazon Basin within South America, concentrating on its key physical and human characteristics, and major cities.
  • Understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography in the Amazon Basin.
  • Describe and understand key aspects of physical and human geography.
  • Use maps and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied.

Maths

  • Construct, read and interpret information in tables, pie charts and line graphs and use these to solve problems.

Lesson Planning

Journey along the great Amazon River into the Amazon Basin and use maps, satellite images and film to create a narrative about the region. Learn about the region through numbers and create a geographical infographic poster.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To explore the climate zones, rivers, biomes and vegetation belts of the Amazon Basin.
  • To interpret, analyse and represent data to identify trends.

Children will:

  • Travel to the Amazon Basin and experience it as an environment from maps, satellite images and film.
  • Become environmental scientists and analyse physical and human geography statistics and present them in graphical form.
  • Create an ‘Amazon Basin in numbers’ poster.

Provided Resources

  • Exploring the Amazon, covering: Region clues, Map of the world, Maps, Editorial guidelines, Data tables (vegetation, animals, climate, O2 production)
  • Examples of infographics

You Will Need

  • Access to the Internet
  • Rainforest products (see list in resources)
  • Calculators

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