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kenyan-home-grown-foods-and-crops

Kenya is a country in East Africa. We have in previous lessons discovered that food such as bananas and coffee beans are grown there. In this lesson we will be looking at this in more detail and investigating what other food supplies may originate in Kenya - and what they need to grow healthily.

The linked file at the top of the page contains our introduction to the investigation. We check prior knowledge retention by revisiting the previous lesson on food sources. We can then expand the discussion, looking at Kenya specifically.

We can look at specific aspects of growing crops in Kenya - tapping into the work we did last year in Science on plant growth and habitats. We can ask the very important questions…

• What do plants need to grow well?
• What sort of habitats do certain plants grow in?
• What kind of care do these plants require?

This in turn leads us on to discussing the climate in Kenya and questions such as…

• How much sunshine is there in Kenya?
• What are the temperatures like throughout the year?
• What amount of rain falls in East Africa?
• What problems might any of the above pose for farmers?

In ELP Science in S1 our pupils also studied the weather. Tapping into this prior understanding of how to access meteorological data from a variety of sources (printed, web, media) and how to simply interpret it, the pupils will be encouraged to do the same for Kenya - working as independently as possible.

Resources will undoubtedly include :-

• BBC website
• Met Office website
• Google
• The newspapers
• Books