Manú National Park, Peru

Teacher notes

This lesson plan is adaptable for KS2 and KS3. **We recommend quickly reading the Amazonian People rich media article to give you some background on indigenous communities in this region, before teaching from the storyworld Amazonian Treats. As in all Lyfta storyworlds, these short films are snapshots from William and Flora's lives, members of the indigenous Matsigenka tribe.** **Please note:** Students will need access to coloured pens and paper for the final task, or you could guide them to an online drawing tool. **Lyfta core themes:** Community and Citizenship, Culture and Identity, Equality and Human Rights, Health and Wellbeing. **Lyfta core skills and values**: Environment and Sustainability, Healthy Living, Human Rights. **SDGs:** 11, 13, 15 **National Curriculum objectives:** KS2 Geography to locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics and countries to understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a region of the United Kingdom, and a region within South America to describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers [and rainforests]. KS3 Geography Pupils should be taught: human geography relating to use of natural resources to understand how human and physical processes interact to influence, and change landscapes, environments and the climate; and how human activity relies on effective functioning of natural systems. KS2 Science to recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways to explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things to recognise that environments can change, and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things to identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution to explore examples of human impact (both positive and negative) on environments; for example, the positive effects of nature reserves, ecologically planned parks; and the negative effects of population and development, litter or deforestation. KS3 Science: Biology relationships in an ecosystem: the interdependence of organisms in an ecosystem, including food webs and insect pollinated crops.