Four ready-to-use enrichment activities for KS3 Geography students who have mastered the basics of natural resources — ideal for extension tasks, homework, cover lessons, or stretching high achievers. No preparation required. Suitable for students aged 11-14.

Each activity targets higher-order thinking: a 12-term vocabulary matching exercise covering natural resource, renewable, non-renewable, managed resource, importing, exporting, supply and demand, the natural resource trap, cobalt, colonialism, iron ore, and HDI; a 25-mark challenge quiz including 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; a 20-mark structured case study on the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its cobalt wealth, with questions ranging from factual recall to extended analysis and solution writing; and a creative Teach It Back task where students write a guide to natural resources for a younger audience, assessed with a provided seven-criterion rubric. Full answer keys and marking guidance are included for all activities.

Pairs with the main 100-mark KS3 Geography worksheet on this topic, also on TES. Buy both together as a complete lesson bundle and save £1.

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The accompanying YouTube video is Google Classroom ready — simply copy the link directly into your Classroom assignment.

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KEY STAGE:
KS3

SUBJECT:
Geography