Year 8 · Geography · beta

The Democratic Republic of the Congo: What are its opportunities and challenges?

This unit teaches pupils about the physical and human geography of the DRC and how natural resources bring both opportunities and challenges. Pupils will also learn about the Congo rainforest and how conservation efforts are trying to protect this important biome.

This is an attributed Oak National Academy lesson sequence, not a completed or academically approved DASKEREL course. Supporting transcripts may depend on video, images, practical equipment or teacher explanation. Follow each lesson’s supervision guidance. For religious education and RSHE, follow the school’s syllabus, policy and safeguarding procedures.

This Oak index uses an earlier export and lists 1 source lessons. DASKEREL has 12 original lessons for this unit, including 11 linked to source lessons absent from that export. Read the full DASKEREL unit.

Prior knowledge

  • Africa is a continent with 54 countries in it.
  • Countries are often categorised as low income, middle income or high income countries depending upon their wealth.
  • There are significant inequalities in wealth and quality of life between countries and within countries.
  • Global warming is caused by the increase in greenhouse gas emissions released by humans.
  • Colonialism was a system in which wealthier countries controlled other countries around the world.
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can give us information about differences across the world.

Source curriculum references

  • Extend locational knowledge and deepen spatial awareness of the world’s countries using maps of the world.
  • Extend locational knowledge of Africa, Russia, Asia (including China and India), and the Middle East, focusing on their environmental regions, including polar and hot deserts.
  • Extend locational knowledge of Africa, Russia, Asia (including China and India), and the Middle East focussing on key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities.
  • Understand geographical similarities, differences and links between places through the study of human and physical geography of a region within Africa, and of a region within Asia.
  • Understand key processes of physical geography relating to geological timescales and plate tectonics; rocks, weathering and soils.
  • Understand key processes of physical geography relating to weather and climate, including the change in climate from the Ice Age to the present.
  • Understand key processes of human geography relating to population and urbanisation.
  • Understand key processes of human geography relating to international development.
  • Understand key processes of human geography relating to economic activity in the primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary sectors; and the use of natural resources.
  • Use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to view, analyse and interpret places and data.

Oak source metadata. DASKEREL has not independently verified school-level coverage.

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