Sustainable farming: Tanzania

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This lesson is suitable for KS3 Geography and is adaptable for KS4. It could be adapted to a KS2 context by removing the permaculture activity and simplifying as suggested. **Core skills and values:** Adaptability & Flexibility, Assertiveness, Coaching & Mentoring, Collaboration & Teamwork, Creativity & Innovation, Decision Making, Environment & Sustainability, Healthy Living, Intercultural Competence, Lifelong Learning, Organisation & Planning, Perspective-Taking, Positive Attitude, Practical Life Skills, Practical Lift Skills, Professionalism, Responsibility & Accountability, Work Ethic. **Lyfta Core themes:** Community and Citizenship, Culture and Identity, Health and Wellbeing, Learning and Growth, Natural Environment, Professions and Entrepreneurship, Technology and Engineering. **SDGs:** 1,2,3,9,11,12,13,15. **National Curriculum Objectives:** KS3 Geography Pupils should be taught to: - extend locational knowledge and deepen spatial awareness of the world’s countries using maps of the world to focus on Africa… focusing on environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics - understand geographical similarities, differences and links between places through the study of human and physical geography of a region within Africa, and of a region within Asia (special focus on farming) - human geography relating to: population and urbanisation; international development; economic activity and use of natural resources - understand how human and physical processes interact to influence, and change landscapes, environments and climate; how human activity relies on effective functioning of natural systems. KS4 Geography KS4 Geography teachers can use the storyworld Kihamba Life and this lesson plan, adapting for your specific exam board context, to explore themes of geographical processes, the impact of change and of complex people-environment interactions, to highlight the dynamic links and interrelationships between places and environments at different scales. Building on KS3, these areas in particular: - develop and extend knowledge of locations, places, environments and processes, and of different scales - gain understanding of the interactions between people and environments, change in places and processes over space and time, and their interrelationships - develop and extend competence in a range of skills including including using digital sources to develop competence in applying sound enquiry and investigative approaches to questions and hypotheses - apply geographical knowledge, understanding, skills and approaches to real world contexts. Using Mount Kilimanjaro and Kihamba farming as examples, students can develop knowledge of: - Geomorphic processes and landscape - Changing weather and climate - People and environment: processes and interactions - Global ecosystems and biodiversity, drawing out the interdependences.