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Year 2

What is it like to live in Tanzania?

6 lessons

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  • Americas and regions
  • Diversity
  • Economic activity
  • Land use and settlement
  • Natural resources

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This unit explores what it is like to live in a contrasting locality by studying Jamaica and Tanzania. Pupils investigate location, climate, and key physical and human features, and compare each place with their own through maps, images and geographical vocabulary.

This unit introduces a contrasting non-European locality, as required by the National Curriculum, and builds on pupils’ understanding of their own place. Its placement supports meaningful comparison, encouraging empathy, curiosity and awareness of diverse ways of living.

  1. The location of Africa and UK connections
  2. Tanzania's climate and landscapes
  3. Physical and human features of Tanzania
  4. Similarities and differences: Arusha in Tanzania
  5. Jobs in Arusha, Tanzania
  6. Daily life near Arusha

  • Some knowledge of global geography and the use of a globe to locate places.
  • Knowledge of the local area.
  • Some knowledge of using Google Earth, aerial photographs, map, stories and other source of geographical information to investigate places.
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