Year 6 - Geography
World food supplies
Farms and factories: where does our food come from?
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Unit Summary
This unit explores how food is produced and distributed, both locally and globally. Pupils investigate where different foods come from, how diets are changing, and what environmental and social factors shape food production and supply.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to understand and explain reasons why some people don't have enough to eat and share your opinions about potential actions that can be taken to help end world hunger.
Key Notes
- The causes of insufficient access to food are complex.
- Hunger can happen to people all over the world but there are more people going hungry in some countries than others.
- There are different ways to take action against hunger; some of these are short-term and some are long-term.
- It is important to listen to and consider the viewpoints of others when working in a group.
Vocabulary To Learn
- malnutrition: Malnutrition is caused by not having enough of the right foods that your body needs to be healthy
- starvation: Starvation is suffering or death caused by having not enough or nothing to eat
- climate change: Climate change is a large-scale and long-term change in the planet's climate, including weather patterns and average temperatures
- poverty: Poverty is not having enough money to afford basic human needs such as food, clothing or somewhere to live
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Difficulty in understanding how different causes overlap to cause hunger.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this geography topic using two clear key points.
The causes of insufficient access to food are complex. Hunger can happen to people all over the world but there are more people going hungry in some countries than others.
2. Define this geography term and use it in an example. 'malnutrition'
Malnutrition is caused by not having enough of the right foods that your body needs to be healthy.
3. Correct this common geography misunderstanding.
Mistake: Difficulty in understanding how different causes overlap to cause hunger. Correction: A consequence chain (see Lesson 5) could be used to investigate the potential impacts of different causes of hunger.
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