Central Idea: Agricultural systems are shaped by resource management decisions, energy use, environmental impact, and human responsibility.
Key Concepts: Causation • Connection • Responsibility • Change • Perspective
Related Concepts: Sustainability • Resource Allocation • Renewable Energy • Equity • Interdependence • Impact
Age Group: PYP 5 (10–11 years)
Duration: Full-Day Farm Experience
Venue: Bhagya Lakshmi Farm
Learning Approach: Inquiry-led • Analytical • Evidence-based • Debate-oriented
Includes: Pre Tour, On Tour and Post Tour Phases
“The Ethics of Food Systems” positions Bhagya Lakshmi Farm as a real-world model for analysing how food production intersects with environmental responsibility, economic efficiency, and ethical decision-making.
PYP 5 learners investigate how agricultural choices influence soil health, biodiversity, energy consumption, waste management, and long-term viability.
The inquiry moves beyond “how farms work” toward evaluating trade-offs:
Does higher production always mean better outcomes?
Who benefits from agricultural efficiency?
What are the long-term environmental costs?
Can sustainability and productivity coexist?
Students gather field evidence, analyse systemic relationships, evaluate competing priorities, and construct defensible sustainability claims.
Research: Structured field audits, data categorisation, process mapping
Thinking: Systems synthesis, ethical evaluation, trade-off analysis, long-term forecasting
Communication: Structured argumentation, evidence citation, counter-argument response
Social: Role-based collaboration, negotiation, critical dialogue
Self-Management: Independent inquiry tracking, accountability within group roles
Creative Thinking: Policy proposal design, sustainable innovation modelling
Students analyse resource flow within agricultural systems.
Students evaluate renewable energy and waste transformation processes.
Students examine economic, environmental, and ethical dimensions of farming.
Students assess trade-offs between productivity and sustainability.
Students construct evidence-based sustainability proposals.
Students explain agricultural systems using systems-based reasoning.
Students justify sustainability evaluations with field evidence.
Students analyse the impact of resource allocation decisions.
Students construct balanced arguments regarding agricultural efficiency.
Students propose responsible long-term agricultural strategies.
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