Visit the rainforest: Accessible

Teacher notes

This is an ideal introductory lesson into the Amazonian Treats storyworld! **Lyfta core themes:** Culture and Identity, Natural Environment. **Lyfta core skills and values**: Environment and Sustainability, Healthy Living, Perspective-Taking. **SDGs:** 2, 15. **National Curriculum objectives:** KS1 Geography - to use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key physical features, including: forest, rainforest, village, farm. 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, countries, and major cities - 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. - Describe and understand key aspects of: physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers; human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water. KS1 Science: - to identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other. KS2 Science - to identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat - to explore examples of human impact (both positive and negative) on environments, for example, the positive effects of nature reserves, ecologically planned parks, or garden ponds, and the negative effects of population and development, litter or deforestation. KS1 Design Technology (Cooking and Nutrition) - to understand where food comes from. KS2 and KS3 Design Technology (cooking and nutrition): - to understand where and how a variety of food ingredients are grown, reared, caught and processed (source, seasonality).