Lesson 1 on Barbadian Heritage and Geography

1. What is Heritage?
Starter: With your partner come up with a
definition of the word Heritage.

2. Heritage:
• According to an online dictionary.
• “Heritage is anything that has been
transmitted from the past or handed down
by tradition. It includes
culture, traditions, geography, buildings and

3. Our study of Barbadian Heritage
includes.
• Barbadian Geography.
• Barbadian History.
• Barbadian Buildings
• Barbadian Traditions.
Barbadian Culture.

4. Barbadian Geography Challenge
• In pairs use the
internet to solve the
following geography
questions.

5. The Geography Challenge.
• Rank all the Parishes in Alphabetical order
• What Parish is considered the ‘Heart of Barbados’
• What are the top five settlements in Barbados.
• What mineral is Barbados made of?
• Why are Barbados beaches made of white sand?
• What is a Tectonic Plate?
• What is Coral?
• What depths does Coral need to form?

6. New Words.
• Tectonic Plates
• Plate Margins
• Coral
• Coral Reef
• Formation
Old Words.
• Population
• Economically
Active
• Economically
Dependant
• Birth Rate
• Death Rate