KS3 Geography — Natural Resources — Extension Pack

🌍 Stretch high achievers further with four ready-to-use enrichment activities on natural resources — no preparation required. Natural resources are materials found in nature that people use, classified as renewable or non-renewable depending on whether they can be replaced, and these tasks push students to apply that thinking, for KS3 students aged 11–14.

📦 What's included:

Vocabulary Matching (12 terms) — covering natural resource, renewable, non-renewable, managed resource, importing, exporting, supply and demand, the natural resource trap, cobalt, colonialism, iron ore, and HDI

Challenge Quiz (25 marks) — data table analysis of global food, oil, and cobalt statistics, a supply and demand reasoning question on the DRC and electronics prices, and an evaluative question on the resource curse

Democratic Republic of the Congo Case Study (20 marks) — cobalt wealth, ranging from factual recall to extended analysis and solution writing

Teach It Back task — students write a guide to natural resources for a younger audience, assessed with a provided seven-criterion rubric

Full answer keys and marking guidance included for all four activities.

🎬 Watch the free video lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVWvJ8Vfn5Q

👩‍🏫 Google Classroom ready — copy the link straight into your assignment. Print as many copies as your class needs.

🔓 Pairs with the main 100-mark natural resources worksheet, also available as part of the Complete Lesson Pack. Save £1 buying the pack (£3 + £3 = £6 separately, £5 together).

Price: £3