Year 7 – Should tourists come back to Kenya?

Geography Homework Booklet

Name: Teacher:

Week 1: During your lesson you will have started work on a title page to introduce the Kenya topic in your book. You should finish this by ______.

Your title page should include a map of Kenya and information about the country. Tourist brochures and newspaper supplements are a good place to look for pictures to cut out to add, or you could look at:

Week 2: During your lesson you will have watched a film about life in Kibera. One project set up to help children in Kibera is the Lunchbowl network ( – this provides lunches and more for children in Kibera. Read ‘The Starfish Story’ below – is it worth helping a few people when there are so many people suffering poverty in the world? By ______.

I agree with the old man/the boy because…

Extension task: Why might some people disagree with your view?

Week 3: During your lesson you will have started to produce a report or photo montage to answer the question ‘Are all Kenyans poor’. You should finish this for homework and print it to bring to your lesson on ______.

Week 4: During your lesson you will have looked at how fair trade is helping farmers in Kenya. Design a label to be used to encourage people to buy fair trade flowers from Kenya in the box below by ______.

For more information about fair trade flowers see:

Week 5: What is Eco-tourism? Answer this question by ______.

Extension task: Find an example of an eco-tourism holiday to Kenya and bring it to your lesson.

Week 6: You will have started writing a letter to the British Government answering the question ‘Should tourists be attracted back to Kenya?’ in your lessons this week. Complete this letter for homework by ______

This work will be marked using an assessment ladder – you will be given a copy of this to stick into your book at the start of the assessment.

Here are some examples of sentence starters you might like to use:

  • Kenya is an amazing country. It has many different landscapes and attractions for visitors. Tourism has brought many benefits to Kenya, such as…
  • However there have been problems…
  • I think you should/shouldn’t encourage tourism to Kenya from your country because…
  • If tourists are to return to Kenya, tourism needs to be more sustainable. This means…
  • An example of how tourism in Kenya could be more sustainable is…

For more information about tourism in Kenya see:

Review of this unit:

Questions for you to answer –

  • Which activity did you enjoy most this half term? Why did you enjoy it?
  • Which activity did you learn most from this half term? Why?
  • Give two examples of new facts/skills you have learnt this half term.
  • Has the homework set during this half term been hard enough to provide you with a challenge, but easy enough for you to complete it successfully?
  • What could the geography department do to make this unit of work better?
  • Is there anything extra your teacher could do to help you to make progress in geography?