The Year Earth Changed Attenborough Worksheet & Key + Google Forms

Keep students watching and writing the whole way through with this fill-in-the-blank worksheet for The Year Earth Changed (2021). The 21 questions follow the video in the order it plays, so students record each answer as that moment happens on screen instead of reconstructing it afterward — which holds their attention and leaves them with an organized set of notes to study from later.

Built for Environmental Science, it is a natural fit for Environmental Science and Earth Science classrooms (grades 6-12) covering human-environment interaction, and AP Environmental Science teachers covering human impact and recovery. The film runs about 48 minutes, so the whole activity fits inside a single class period. Use it as a full-period viewing activity, a guided companion when you hand the room to a substitute, or a focused review at the end of a unit. A complete answer key is printed on the page right after the worksheet, so whoever is covering the class can run it with no preparation and no background knowledge. The 2-page layout is clean and low-ink, designed to print two-sided. Everything is laid out for a low-prep class period: hand out the page, press play, and let students do the rest. The questions stay in the order the video presents them, so students can follow along without losing their place. It prints cleanly in black and white, which keeps a full class set cheap to photocopy. Use it on its own for a single lesson or fold it into a larger unit alongside related episodes and films. Because students write as they watch, you finish the period with a built-in comprehension check rather than a passive viewing.

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