Population, cities and movement

Where does your dinner come from?

Which regions of the world feed your kitchen?

30 minAt home

Watch first

An English teaching video on this topic from iNewittAll. Watch it, then scroll down for the lesson.

What you need

Tick each one as you find it — 0 of 4 ready.

Plan the fair test

Objectives this evidences

Understand geographical similarities, differences and links between places through the study of human and physical geography of a region in Africa and a region in Asia
Understand population and urbanisation, including international development and the causes and effects of migration

Do it, one step at a time

Step 1 of 5

Step 1. Read the country of origin on every item you can find, and list them in a table.
Step 2. Mark each country on your world map and join it to the UK with a straight line.
Step 3. Use an online map's distance tool, or a scale bar, to estimate each distance in kilometres.
Step 4. Group the items by continent and work out what share came from beyond Europe.
Step 5. Write two sentences on why one item travels so far: climate, growing season, cost of labour or all three.

What should happen

Fresh produce out of season comes from a long way away. Trade links your kitchen to climates and economies across several continents.

Think about: Long distance does not always mean higher emissions. What else would you need to know to judge fairly?

Write up your result

What did you measure, and what pattern did you see?

A sentence or two is enough to save it.

The lessons behind this practical

Each one opens with the same short film, and the film has a written transcript underneath if reading is easier than watching.

Now the quiz for this topic

Questions come from the lessons behind this practical, so nothing is asked that has not been taught.

Quiz

Population, cities and movement quiz

4 questions from the lessons in this stage. No timer, and you can try again as many times as you like.