Year 7 Geography Home Learning Where does our food come from? Name Tutor Group Teacher Given out: Monday 18 January Hand in: Monday 25 January Parent/Carer Comment Staff Comment Target
Dear Year 7 Geography Student (and parents), Welcome to your Home Learning Booklet for this week. The booklet focuses on where the food that we buy, eat and sadly often waste comes from in our world. Does it matter that the other day I bought a packet of beans that came from Peru? Does it matter that most of the food we buy cheaply in supermarkets travels thousands of miles to get here? Remember that you should be spending 5 hours on your Home Learning task and that there is after school help available in the library on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Enjoy finding out more about the food we eat and where it comes from.
TASK 1 Where does our food come from? (30 mins) Your task in this assignment is to find out where the food in your cupboards, refrigerators and freezers has come from. You may also like to help your parents with the shopping and look at labels on tins, packets and on the shelves in the shops or market to see just how many countries we rely on to provide us with the food we consume. The first task is quite easy but will take some time and effort. Either at home or in a shop look at the labels etc of twenty food products and complete the chart. Bronze Silver Gold 1, Name/Type of product. Country from which it comes. In which continent is that country? How many miles is that country from the UK? 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
TASK 2 Where does our food come from? (20 mins) Where do some items traditionally come from? All to complete 1. Where do you think most tea is produced? 2. Where do you think most coffee is produced? 3. Where do you think most pasta is produced? 4. Where do you think most potatoes are grown? 5. Where do you think most of our beef comes from? Do these 5 items come from Great Britain? Do most of these 5 items come from Europe? Fill in the gaps. Clearly, most of these items have to travel long to get to Great Britain and end up in our. This might make some food cheaper because it is grown or made in vast amounts in bigger farms/countries. However this causes a. The problem is that to keep things fresher most products are here, and this causes huge amounts of. distances problem pollution flown shops
TASK 3 Introduction to Ghana (30 mins) All to complete
Use the information in the pictures and the map on the previous page to answer the following questions: 1) Where is Ghana? Use these words and phrases in your answer: ocean West Africa tropic equator 2) Is Ghana a poor country or a rich country? Use the pictures to help you look for evidence. I think that picture shows that Ghana is a poor country because I think that picture also shows that Ghana is a poor country because I think that picture shows Ghana is a rich country because I think that picture also shows Ghana is a rich country because
TASK 4 Life in Ghana (1 hour) All to comple te This is Ansong Eunice Aohema. Ms Roberts met her when she visited Ghana. She asked her some questions and this is what Ansong said. Use this information to complete the table on the next page. I am Ansong Eunice Aohema. I am dark in complexion and have curly hair and bright eyes. I like studying and reading story books. At home I chat with my friends, have fun and attend a girl s club. I am fifteen years old. Ansong Earnest is my Dad s name. He is an architect. He is Describe your family hardworking and a wonderful man. My Mum Agnes Ansong is a business tycoon. She is a caring mother and responsible. I live in a self-contained house with my family. It s a nice house; Describe your house well furnished and painted a nice colour. Flowers decorate the outside of it. It always attracts strangers to visit the house. It is well roofed and has well ventilated windows. I normally prepare food on the stove. My best dish is Banku with What do you like to eat? groundnut soup. It tastes very nice when well prepared. Inside my house are well decorated rooms. We have a pond which I like staring at. My best paddies are Emelia and Princella. I love playing with them. Describe your friends We crack jokes, play our local game (ludo), sing songs and visit the zoo. I love my friends and my hobbies are reading books and playing computer games.
Name of young person. Ansong Eunice Aohema Age Describe her home. What jobs does she do to help around the house? How many brothers & sisters does she have? What do her parents do? Name 2 things that interest you about her. What things surprise you about her way of life?
Now complete this table about yourself and compare the similarities and differences. All to complete Age Describe your home. What jobs do you do to help around the house? How many brothers & sisters do you have? What do your parents or guardians do? What similarities can you find between your life and that of the Ghanaian pupil? What appears to be the biggest difference?
TASK 5 Ghana s black gold (1 hour) Sil G Ghana produces 50% of the world s cocoa but chocolate hasn t always been so easy to buy. Complete this timeline using the facts on the next page to find out the history of chocolate production. As long ago as 600 AD, the Maya Indians of Central America were making a chocolate drink by roasting the cocoa beans and adding water and spices. 600AD 1517 1520 1528 1585 1615 1634 1650 1831 1827 1828 1847 1897 1905 2000 s Today, cocoa is grown in over forty countries but most comes from West Africa. The top two producers are the Cote d Ivoire and Ghana. Between them, these grow over 50% of the world s total.
Write this information in the correct place on your timeline. You can cut the boxes out and stick them in if you would prefer. When Don Cortes returned to Spain in 1528 he brought back cocoa beans. Chocolate was believed to have health benefits so At first the some of the earliest beans were in makers of the chocolate short supply. But drink were chemists. by 1585, large John Cadbury began quantities of selling it alongside tea cocoa beans were and coffee, in his being shipped to Birmingham shop, in 1831. Spain. The invention of the chocolate press in Holland in 1828 changed everything. Using this, the fat could be squeezed out of the chocolate separating the cocoa butter from the cocoa powder. As long ago as 600 AD, the Maya Indians of Central America were making a chocolate drink by roasting the cocoa beans and adding water and spices. By 1905 Cadbury s had developed it s best tasting bar using fresh milk called Dairy Milk. Chocolate drinks finally reached England in the 1650s. 3 years later in 1520 the Spanish attacked the Aztecs and brought them to an end, taking control of their cocoa plants. It was discovered that if you heated cocoa butter with cocoa powder you got chocolate that hardened as it cooled and so the chocolate bar was born. The first were sold in 1847 by Fry & Sons of Bristol. Cadbury made its first chocolate bar in 1897. In 1517 the Spanish landed in Mexico and the Aztec chiefs fed them drinking chocolate. In 1615 it had reached France when a Spanish princess married King Louis XIII of France. It was around 1827, that Tetteh Quashie is said to have smuggled his cocoa beans from the Spanishcontrolled island of Fernando Po, and planted them in Mampong in Ghana. In 1634 the Dutch captured the Spanish trading island of Curacao in the Caribbean. They stole the cocoa from the ships.
TASK 6 Fair Trade. (1-2 hours) PART A- Read through the information on the next pages carefully and underline 10 things you think are important facts. Information about Cocoa Farming in Ghana and Fair Trade Ghana depends on cocoa. After gold, it s the country s main way of making money, and Ghanaian cocoa is considered to be some of the world s best. Most Ghanaian cocoa is produced on small farms. There are about 720,000 cocoa farmers in Ghana. There are a lot of links between the cocoa tree, the chocolate bar and cocoa farmers right at the beginning of the chain that often get a bad deal from the global cocoa industry. In Ghana, each farmer sells their cocoa to a private buying company, which then sells it on to the Ghanaian government s Cocoa Marketing Board. It is then sold on to international buyers, such as chocolate manufacturers, at a price set by richer countries who want a good deal. The life of a cocoa farmer is hard. On average, they earn 325 a year, and despite growing much of their own food, they need cash to pay for many essentials such as things for their farms, school fees, medicine, doctor s fees, transport and clothes. As part of the chocolate producing chain, cocoa farmers face a number of other problems too: The price of cocoa around the world never stays the same so they never know how much money they are getting.
This means cocoa farmers have no long-term security, and in some situations, can t even cover their farming costs. Farmers often only receive a tiny amount of the actual price their beans sell for on the world market because there are several people in the trading chain. In the early 1990s, cocoa farmers were getting less than half of what international buyers were paying. The things farmers need to buy, which they can t make or grow themselves, such as tools, fertilisers and pesticides, medicine, food and clothes, are expensive. Farmers are often paid by local cocoa buyers using cheques or vouchers, which the farmers then can t cash, or which don t work. Farmers are often underpaid by local cocoa buyers using fixed scales, set to show a lower reading than the actual weight of their cocoa beans. Fairtrade aims to change the way that international trade works, building fairer trading relationships between the people who buy the chocolate and the farmers and companies involved in the poorer countries. What does Fairtrade mean for cocoa farmers? Cocoa farmers get a guaranteed minimum price for their cocoa beans of $2,000 (about 1,300) per tonne, which covers at least their cost of production and gives them the security to plan for the future. An extra 'Fairtrade Premium' of $200 (about 130) is also paid for each tonne of Fairtrade cocoa that is given to local communities to use for projects such as clean drinking water wells, schools or medical clinics. Long-term trading contracts provide security and the possibility of planning.
The process for buying and selling farmers produce is fair, clear and more accountable. They benefit from guaranteed minimum health and safety conditions. Farmers are encouraged and helped to protect the environment. Education and training are provided in areas such as improving quality and preventing crop disease. Farmers form groups called Co-operatives where they have a real say in how the people who sell their cocoa run the business and how the money from Fairtrade is used to help the whole community. All to complete PART B- NOW using the facts you have underlined, produce a piece of work that informs people about cocoa farming in Ghana and the importance of fair trade. You can choose from any of the following tasks: A poster. A letter written to the people of Shepton Mallet. A power point you must provide a memory stick attached to your work when you hand your home learning booklet in or print off your slides. A collage made from pictures printed off the internet. A cartoon or story board. This should be a quality piece of work and should take about 2 hours to do really really well. Remember you only have to do ONE of these things!
If you have chosen to do the poster or collage, use this page.
If you have chosen to write a letter, use this page. Dear People of Shepton Mallet,
If you have chosen to do a cartoon or storyboard use this page landscape.
Self Evaluation of my Homework I am a R learner. I know this because: I believe that my effort and attitude to learning for this booklet is a: 1 2 3 4 I know this because: