CLASS 5 SOCIAL STUDIES
UNIT 4 LESSON 2 JUNE, 2020
RESOURCES AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
Tea farming in Murang'a.
Wildlife and Tourism.
The above pictures are part of our economic activities.
RESOURCES
-These are things we use to generate income or create wealth.
ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
-They are various ways we used the resources to earn money.
Examples of Economic Resources
- Crop farming
- Fishing
- Livestock keeping
- Wildlife and tourism
- Mining
- Trade
- Forestry
- Transport and communication
AGRICULTURE
-Is the growing of crops and keeping of livestock.
-It is the most important economic activity.
Traditional Forms Of Agriculture
-There are two forms of traditional agriculture.
- Bush fallowing
- Shift cultivating
Shifting Cultivation
-People clear land which is virgin mainly by burning the bushes
-They planted crops for a certain period of time
-Bush fallowing was possible due to a lot of land and few people
-Simple tools such as digging sticks, hoes were also used.
Bush fallowing
-It involved clearing virgin land, burning the bushes.
-It was cultivated for a period of time then moving to a new piece of land, leaving the old one regains fertility.
-After a number of years the farmers returned to the original land.
Subsistence crop farming
-This is the growing of crops for human used, food subssitances .
-Crops grown in Kenya are Maize,Beans,Potatoes,Bananas,Vegetables,Sorghum,Cassava
Food storage in traditional African societies
- Grains could be stored in huge baskets, large clay pots, gourds and calabashes.
- Some communities built granaries where grains like maize could be kept.
- Maize and bananas could be hung on poles inside the homestead.
- Milk was stored in gourds.
- Woven baskets could be used used to store pumpkins and yams.
- Meat could be on a place inside the house and then smoked to preserved it.
- Milk was stored in gourds inside the houses.
WORK TO DO 10 MKS
- How was meat stored in some traditional community______________
