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Hold a Recycled Sports Day
Plastic bag footballs, bare foot races and water weight lifting might not be the usual events you will find at a Sports Day but they are if you join Send a Cow’s games - all with an African twist! We’ve got lots of ideas about how you can hold your own 'Recycled Sports Day'; some are real sports events, others real African games and the rest are simply recycled fun...
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- Citizenship,
- Design and technology,
- ESD / global citizenship,
- Geography,
- PE / dance,
- PSHE / PSE / PSED
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Make a toy car, re-use a plastic bottle African style
Published
2012
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Website- Website
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FREE
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This short video shows how ‘waste’ can be re-used and made into toys like this plastic bottle car. It is typical for young boys like Dennis from Uganda to make their own toys out of recycled materials such as bottles, tyres and plastic bags as there often is little money to buy them.
Why not have acompetition in your class to see who can make...
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African children's games
Published
2012
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- Website
- Website
- Website
- Website
- Website
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FREE
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Many of the games that children play in East Africa are about things in their everyday lives: food, family and homemaking. These fun games are from a group of children near Iganga, Uganda. Before Send a Cow helped their families, many of these children were malnourished, only ate one meal a day and had very little energy to play. Through training in natural farming with ...
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Fair Play
Published
2012
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PDF
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FREE
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Tom Palmer is an author who brings sport (mainly football) into his children's books. This Fair Play pack is based on Tom's trip to Ghana where he was doing research for one of his books, Foul Play 3: Off Side - which is a detective story exploring murky issues like people trafficking and hostile takeovers . It would be ideal to use this pack at the same time as reading Off Side with your stude...
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Make a recycled plastic bag football
Published
2011
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- PDF
- Website
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FREE
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These sheets and video give step-by-step instructions to help your pupils make these ‘recycled’ plastic bag footballs - just like thousands of children in African countries. Use the weblink to watch a video of how to make one as well. It’s a great activity for Africa Cup of Nations, links well with recycling project and can be used to discuss the uses of waste materials in the...
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RISC Resource Bank
Published
2011
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- Website
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FREE
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RISC's new interactive Resource Bank supports the effective delivery of Global Citizenship across the curriculum.
Choose from thousands of photos and artefacts from many different countries, plus teaching packs and books along with schemes of work and inspirational ideas submitted by primary and secondary teachers.
New materials are regularly added, many are free to download. It...
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- Art and design,
- Business studies / management,
- Citizenship,
- Design and technology,
- Drama,
- English,
- Geography,
- History,
- ICT / IS / IT,
- Mathematics,
- MFL: French,
- MFL: other,
- MFL: Spanish,
- Music,
- PSHE / PSE / PSED,
- RE / RS,
- Science
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- Conflict,
- Culture,
- Diversity and Inclusion,
- Fair trade,
- Food,
- Gender,
- Global citizenship,
- Human rights,
- Interdependence,
- Peace,
- Play and toys,
- Religion,
- Sustainable development
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Failte Malawi
Published
2011
Type
CD-ROM
Image
Teacher's Pack
Price
£25.00
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Designed to support Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland, the activities in this pack encourage primary school teachers and their pupils to explore the links and commonalities that are shared between Scotland and Malawi.
It uses Malawi as a context for learning about rights, exploring Global Citizenship and challenging perceptions of the world beyond the everyday experience of most pup...
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- Citizenship,
- English,
- Geography,
- PSHE / PSE / PSED,
- RE / RS,
- Science,
- Social and environmental,
- Technology and design
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Plastic bottle re-use & recycling ideas from Africa - Video
Published
2011
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- Website
- Website
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FREE
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Lorna from Uganda shows how they re-use plastic drinks bottles on their small rural farm in Kumi. From solar lights to drip irrigation, the bottles make themselves very useful in all aspects of life. Watch the video with your class (or use the powerpoint) and why not have a design competition for the most ingenious uses for bottles. Then send them in to us (education@sendacow.org.uk...
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- Art and design,
- Citizenship,
- Design and technology,
- ESD / global citizenship,
- Geography,
- Technology and design
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Christian Aid primary assemblies
Published
2011
Type
- Website
Price
FREE
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Christian Aid has produced a range of free, ready-to-use multi-faith primary assemblies that bring global issues of poverty and injustice to life.
Each assembly includes a suggested script on a PDF, with ideas for reflection and further action around the topic. There is also a PowerPoint presentation with illustrations and photographs.
A wide range of topics are covered, includi...
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- Climate change,
- Conflict,
- Education,
- Energy,
- Environment,
- Equality,
- Fair trade,
- Farming,
- Festival/Celebrations,
- Food,
- Health,
- Natural disasters,
- Peace,
- Play and toys,
- Refugees / Asylum,
- Social justice,
- Water
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Commonwealth Online
Published
2011
Type
- Website
Price
FREE
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Commonwealth Online uses the archive of The British Empire and Commonwealth Museum (based in Bristol) to bring together free, downloadable, curriculum-linked teaching packages. The resources fit mainly into the History curriculum, with cross-curricular links to other subjects including Art & Design, Citizenship, Geography, ICT and Literacy. They use film and audio recordings as well as imag...
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- Anguilla,
- Antigua and Barbuda,
- Australia,
- Bangladesh,
- Barbados,
- Cameroon,
- Canada,
- Cayman Islands,
- Dominica,
- Falkland Islands,
- Gambia,
- Ghana,
- Grenada,
- Hong kong,
- India,
- Jamaica,
- Kenya,
- Malaysia,
- Montserrat,
- Namibia,
- Nigeria,
- Pakistan,
- Sierra Leone,
- Somalia,
- South Africa,
- Trinidad and Tobago,
- Turks and Caicos Islands,
- United Kingdom,
- Virgin Islands (British),
- Zambia,
- Zimbabwe
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