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One Day
Published
2013
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Book
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£12.99
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One Day is a beautiful, vibrant story following fifteen different children from around the world through a 24 hour period. Readers find out all about their different families, homes, schools, meals and much more. They also discover how time zones work, and what's happening on one side of the world while the other side sleeps. This is a fantastic and accessible introduction to the concept of tim...
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The Little Box of BIG Questions
Published
2013
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Teacher's Pack
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£24.99
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Children and young people need time, space and kindness to speak openly about the things most important to them. Listening can help facilitators understand better the root of children's thinking and behaviour, and can give an insight into how to better support them to reach their potential.
This box of 'big question' cards can be used to provide prompts for a meaningful, stimulating and...
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Helping Prisca - basic needs and sustainable help
Published
2013
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Website
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FREE
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A collection of three lessons that explore comparisons between the UK and Kenya, basic needs (and wants) and different ways to help people in Africa. These lessons are all written for the Geography and Citizenship curriculum - living in a diverse world. The activities help pupils to understand what life is like for a Kenyan orphan, how it compares to their own lives and looks at different ways ...
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World Stories
One in eight children in the UK speaks a language other than English as their first language. This website is a growing collection of short stories, both new and traditional, from all around the world. The stories are available in English, plus their original language (see list below). They can be read and listened to online, or downloaded, all for free.
The stories can help children un...
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- Arts,
- Community,
- Diversity and Inclusion,
- Family,
- Festival/Celebrations,
- Global citizenship,
- Identity,
- Language,
- Values
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Christmas in East Africa | Kenya, Uganda
Published
2011
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PDF- Website
- Website
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FREE
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Christmas is celebrated in many East African countries, but it can have quite a different feel to celebrations in more western countries. It’s religious emphasis and more limited commercialisation make it a great springboard for discussion and exploration with your children of different values and of what the season is all about. Use the web link for some facts about Christmas...
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- Art and design,
- Background information,
- Craft and design,
- ESD / global citizenship,
- Geography,
- RE / RS,
- Religious / moral education,
- Social and environmental
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Our Lives
Published
2010
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- Book
- PDF
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FREE
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Our Lives is a colourful pictorial journey through children's daily needs. It compares the lives of UK children with other children across the globe, through the topics of family, work, homes, food, water, health, schools and games. The text and pictures show the difficulties encountered by children whose lives are affected by war, long-term famine and natural disasters which result in poverty....
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Images of India
Published
2010
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CD-ROM
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£20.99
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This CD from the Geographical Association has over 130 photographs from India, each with a caption and location. They are organised into the 11 categories; each category has teacher guidance and an activity idea.
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- Community,
- Culture,
- Employment,
- Environment,
- Family,
- Food,
- Homes and Homelessness,
- Language,
- Rural,
- Transport,
- Urban
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Bangla Stories
Published
2010
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- PDF
- Teacher's Pack
- Website
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FREE
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Bangla Stories is a website featuring the migration stories of people who left Bengal after Independence in 1947 when the state was divided into West Bengal and East Pakistan (later Bangladesh). These are stories of people who left behind home and family, people who crossed new borders and travelled overseas, people who made new lives. It also includes interviews carried out in two primary scho...
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Raya's Globe
Published
2009
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- Book
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£6.99
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Raya is a little girl living in California. As she plays with her new globe a friend asks her: 'Where are you from?' Raya has Palestinian parents, she was born in the Lebanon, brought up in Dubai and now lives in America, so how does she answer that question?
She asks different members of her family and each one gives her a different answer. They prompt memories of the sights, sounds, s...
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Makutano Junction
Published
2008
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- Website
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FREE
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Makutano Junction is a Kenyan-produced TV soap opera which attracts over seven million viewers in Kenya alone. It aims to entertain and educate English-speaking African audiences. Set in a fictional Kenyan village, it follows the loves and lives of a colourful cast. Like 'The Archers', Makutano Junction was conceived as a means of disseminating valuable information through an engaging and acces...
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- Child rights,
- Community,
- Democracy,
- Education,
- Environment,
- Family,
- Farming,
- Food,
- Gender,
- Government,
- Health,
- HIV/Aids,
- Media,
- Millennium Dev Goals,
- Sustainable development
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