Hello and welcome.

My name is Ms. Harrison.

I'm so excited to be learning with you today.

We're going to have a fantastic lesson.

Today's lesson is called Farming in Jamaica.

This lesson is part of a wider unit called contrasting locality, what it's like to live in Jamaica.

In this lesson, we are going to be learning about some types of crops that are found in Jamaica and the UK.

By the end of the lesson, you are going to be able to name some of the crops that are found in Jamaica and the UK.

And then we're going to think about some questions that we might want to ask farmers in Jamaica.

But before we can begin this learning, we need to define a few keywords that we'll be using throughout this lesson.

The keywords that we'll be using throughout this lesson are crops, climate, equator, and plantation.

Crops, a crop is a plant that is grown in large quantities.

Climate, a climate is an average of weather conditions.

For example, rain, sun, wind of a specific place, and this will be taken over a long period of time, usually 30 years or more.

Equator, the equator is an imaginary line, encircling earth at zero degrees latitude.

It is an equal distance from the North Pole and the South Pole.

Plantation, a plantation is an area of land on which one kind of crop is growing.

For example, trees for wood.

Brilliant, now we've defined these keywords.

We can begin to start answering some of our learning outcomes.

Our first learning outcome in this lesson is what crops grow in the UK and Jamaica.

There are lots of different crops that are grown in Jamaica.

Do you think that farmers will grow the same types of crops in Jamaica as they will in the UK? I would like you to pause this video here and to discuss this question with somebody.

Find out whether you think the same types of crops will be grown in both Jamaica and the UK.

And when you're ready, press play.

As you probably have guessed, different crops grow better in different climates.

So when we are talking about Jamaica, we need to think about where it's located.

Jamaica is near the equator, and so it is hot all year round.

It has a rainy season and it can be very, very wet during this season.

Whereas in the UK, the UK is farther from the equator and so it has cold winters and really warm summers.

This is going to affect the types of crops each of these places are going to be able to grow.

Here are some of the crops that are grown in Jamaica.

I wonder, are you able to name them? Pause the video here and have a look at each of the pictures and try and see if you can identify what type of crop each picture is.

When you're ready, press play.

Fantastic, let's check if you've got those correct.

So the first one, we're starting from the left and working our way to the right.

The first one is bananas, cacao, coconuts, and sugarcane.

I wonder, do you know what cacao is made out of? Pause the video here whilst you have a think and press play to discuss.

Fantastic, cacao makes things like chocolate, something both you and I probably really like to eat.

Now let's have a look at what types of crops are grown in the UK.

I wonder, again, are you able to name them? Pause the video here whilst you take a closer look and try and identify what each crop is that is grown in the UK.

Press play when you're ready to continue.

Excellent.

Let's go through.

We're working from the left all the way to the right.

The first crop is apples, broccoli, strawberries, and wheat.

Do you know what wheat is used to make? Pause the video here, have a think and then press play to discuss.

Excellent, wheat is used to make a lot of the food you and I probably like to eat, things like pasta, cereal, bread, biscuits.

Now we've learned about the different crops.

I wonder if you can remember which crop grows best in Jamaica.

Take a look at each of the images and try and identify which crop would be best suited to Jamaica.

Pause the video here and press play when you're ready to continue.

Excellent, it's A, cacao.

Cacao is the best type of crop out of all of these to grow in Jamaica.

Now let's see which crop would be the best suited to growing in the UK? Take a look at each image and decide which one is best suited to the UK.

Pause it here and press play when you're ready to check your answer.

Excellent, it is B, wheat.

I would like you to draw or to write words in each circle to show some of the crops that are grown in the UK and Jamaica.

And then I want you to explain why different crops are grown in Jamaica in the UK.

To push yourself a bit further, I would like you to include the words climate and equator in your answer.

If you're unsure what climate and equator mean, go back to the slide on our keywords and refamiliarize yourself with these words.

It's really important that when we are doing geographical work that we use key geographical terminology.

Pause the video here whilst you complete this task and press play for us to discuss.

Just before you go, remember a little tip that you could do to help you complete this task.

You could look at some of the packaging of food that you have in your home to find out where other foods are grown or made.

This might be a great help.

Good luck with the task.

Fantastic, let's check our answers.

So you should have in your diagrams for Jamaica, bananas, coconuts, oranges, sugar cane, plantain, and cacao.

And in your circle about the UK, we should have broccoli, apples, wheat, oats, strawberries, and potatoes.

I wonder, did you manage to get all of these as well? Did you add any extra? Well done.

Now let's answer this question, explain why different crops are grown in Jamaica and the UK.

I asked you to challenge yourself to use the words climate and equator in your answer.

So quickly take a look, see if you've included them, and if you haven't, see if you can squeeze them in very quickly.

Fantastic, I've written a model answer that we can look at and you can compare it with your answer.

You can adapt your answer to make it even better by using some of the bits I've put in my answer.

So I wrote, different crops grow best in different climates.

Jamaica has a hot and wet climate because it is near the equator.

The UK has a cooler climate because it is further away from the equator.

We could also start to think of other things.

Jun says, "Many of the foods we eat each day are grown or made in other parts of the world." And Izzy says, "You could maybe go and try and find out where some of the foods you eat at home or school come from." Well done, we've managed to investigate what are the different types of crops grown in both Jamaica and the UK.

We're now going to begin answering our second landing outcome.

How do farmers grow their crops in Jamaica? As geographers, we like to ask specific questions to find out important information.

I wonder what questions could we ask farmers to find out more about what Jamaica is like? I would like you to pause here and to discuss with someone what questions we could ask farmers to find out more about Jamaica.

Press play when you're ready to discuss.

Excellent work, we can ask questions like Jun says, "Let's start with how, what, when, where, and why." These questions help us to get really good bits of information.

We could also be even more specific with our questions.

Like Izzy says, "We could ask questions about Jamaica's climate, its landscape or what life is like there." And that will help us to better answer the question, how do farmers grow their crops in Jamaica? We can also use question grids like the one below to help write questions that we can ask farmers to find out more about their lives in Jamaica.

Using questions like what are, where is, how do.

I would now like you to write three questions that you could ask a farmer to find out more about the crops they grow and the way they live.

Pause the video here whist do you identify three different questions, what, where and how? And press play so we can compare our answers.

Excellent, we could ask ouestions like, what are the crops that you grow? Where is your farm? How do your crops grow? I wonder, did you get similar questions? So when we're looking closely at how farmers grow their crops in Jamaica, we need to understand what crops they grow.

Bananas grow really, really well in Jamaica because it's really hot and wet.

You'll often see them growing alongside roads in people's gardens.

Bananas grow upwards in bunches on the banana plants.

When the bananas are almost ripe, they're cut down.

A bunch can have up to 50 bananas in it.

It's really, really hard work and you need to be extremely strong in order to be able to carry them.

Let's test our knowledge.

Choose the correct answer to complete this sentence.

Bananas grow, A, in a big bunch on the plant, B, on a vine that wraps around other trees, C, under the ground.

Identify the correct sentence in those statements that will help us to complete the sentence, bananas grow.

Pause the video here and press play when you're ready to continue.

Fantastic, it is A, bananas grow in a big bunch on the plant.

Can you remember how many bananas can grow on a plant? Excellent, it was up to 50 bananas.

So you have to be extremely strong in order to be able to carry those bananas.

Sugar cane has been grown in Jamaica for a very, very, very long time.

It was first grown in Jamaica by people from Europe who moved there to live more than 500 years ago.

Less sugar is now grown in Jamaica than in the past, but it is still a very important crop.

True or false? People only started growing sugar in Jamaica a few years ago.

Pause the video here whilst you identify whether this statement is true or false and then press play when you're ready to continue.

Brilliant.

It is false.

People did not start growing sugar in Jamaica only a few years ago.

I wonder, can you explain why this is false? Pause it here and press play when you're ready to check your answer.

Excellent, sugar has been growing in Jamaica for hundreds of years.

Do you remember who first grew sugar in Jamaica? Brilliant, it was the Europeans who came more than 500 years ago.

Other crops are grown in Jamaica and they are things like sweet potatoes, yams, peppers, tomatoes and peas.

Some people have a small amount of land and they eat most of what they grow.

They sell crops that they have leftover at local markets.

The image on the screen is of a yam.

A yam is a type of root vegetable that is eaten a lot in Jamaica.

Have you ever tried yam? Many people in Jamaica also grow their own vegetables.

They do this in their gardens, backyards, even on rooftops, basically anywhere that they can find space.

This is known as backyard farming.

True or false? Most of the crops grown in Jamaica are grown in very large farms and plantations.

Pause the video here whilst you decide whether this statement is either true or false.

And when you're ready to check, press play.

Excellent work, it is false.

Most of the crops grown in Jamaica are not grown in plantations.

I wonder, are you able to explain why? Pause the video here, decide your answer and press play when you're ready to check.

Brilliant, many people in Jamaica grow food to eat in their gardens, backyards or rooftops, basically anywhere that they can find space.

Do you remember what the name was called for this type of farming? Amazing.

It's backyard farming.

I would like you now to imagine that you are a farmer in Jamaica, and I would like you to use all the information that we have learned in today's lesson to answer the questions from the question grid below to help describe your farm.

The questions are, what are the crops that you grow? Where is your farm in Jamaica? And how do your crops grow? Pause the video here whilst you answer these questions to help describe your farm and press place so we can compare answers.

Amazing work, your answers might look something a bit like this.

For the question, what are the crops that you grow? I wrote, I grow bananas.

For the question, where is your farm in Jamaica? I wrote, my farm is in a rural area in the south of Jamaica.

It is to the west of Kingston.

How do your crops grow? Bananas grow upwards in bunches on the banana plant.

When the bananas are almost ripe, they're cut down.

You can even go on to extend these answers if you like with all the information that we have learned, but you've done exceptionally well here, well done.

This is the end of our lesson.

We've done a fantastic lesson learning all about farming in Jamaica.

Let's summarise what we've learned so we can see how far we've come from the beginning of this lesson to now.

We learned that different crops are suited to different climates.

We know that Jamaica is better suited to growing tropical crops like bananas and cacao because it is closer to the equator.

And we know that the UK is better suited to growing things like wheat because it is further away from the equator and a specific growing seasons.

We also learned that bananas, sugar, yams, peppers, tomatoes, and peas all grow in Jamaica.

Questions are a really, really useful way to learn more about farming in Jamaica.

Making sure we've got questions at the start with how, what, why, when, who really helped us to be able to answer questions about what farming looks like in Jamaica.

We also realised that we are actually more connected to different countries by the food we eat.

We looked a lot of the foods that we eat day-to-day and realised a lot of them probably do not grow anywhere in the UK.

Fantastic.

You've done brilliantly today.

I look forward to learning with you again soon.