Brining life back to Kenya's grasslands

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5 geography.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource explains the work of agricultural scientists Professor Mariana Rufino, at Lancaster University, UK, and Dr Joseph Hitimana, at the University of Kabianga, Kenya. They are members of the ReDEAL project, investigating methods for promoting land restoration and using a bottom-up approach to promote these methods among rural communities in Kenya

• This resource also contains an interview with Mariana and Joseph and offers an insight into careers in agricultural science. If your students have questions for Mariana and Joseph, they can send them to them online. All they need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). Mariana and Joseph will reply!

• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Mariana and Joseph’s research and challenges them to task.

• An animation about Mariana and Joseph’s work is available through the weblink, along with a downloadable script.

• The article and activity sheet are also available in Swahili through the weblink below.

This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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