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Live Below the Line Maths resource for primary schools
This free teaching resource aims to encourage Key Stage 2 pupils (ages 7-11) to explore and explain the link between food waste and poverty. They learn about the issue of food waste, collect data to find out about waste in their school and present their findings. They also learn about extreme poverty and hunger, and look at different ways to make a difference.
The resource consists of a...
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Snakes and Dragons Education Pack
Published
2013
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PDF
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FREE
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This education pack for UK primary schools has been produced by the British Council with input from the IOE Confucius Institute for Schools to help teachers explore Chinese culture and language with pupils in the run-up to Chinese New Year and beyond.
With a specific focus on China and Chinese culture, the pack is designed to support young people’s education about the world around...
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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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Waste Not, Want Not
Published
2012
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Teacher's Pack
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£7.50
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The focus of this assembly is waste - looking at the ‘waste hierarchy’, and working out how to reduce the waste we produce, and what to do with it to reduce impact on the environment. It starts with looking at the different options regarding everyday waste, and looks at stories of how things become other things. There are examples of how people and communities around the world are r...
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Ellen MacArthur Foundation - Education resources
Published
2012
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Website
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FREE
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The Ellen MacArthur Foundation is an independent charity which supports schools and teachers in using the framework of a circular economy to present a real alternative for students to discuss and debate. They have worked with teachers, subject associations and education professionals to develop a wide range of free downloadable teaching resources focused on the circular economy.
Lesson ...
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- Corporate Responsibility,
- Economy,
- Energy,
- Environment,
- Natural resources,
- Sustainable development,
- Waste
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Lessons from Africa
Published
2012
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- Website
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FREE
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Send a Cow works hand in hand with poor families, teaching them the skills they need to build new lives free from poverty and hunger. They think it's important that school children learn about sustainability and the reality of life in Africa, away from pictures of starving children and big game safaris.
Their Lessons from Africa website is full of practical teaching res...
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- Art and design,
- Citizenship,
- Design and technology,
- English,
- Geography,
- Mathematics,
- Music,
- PE / dance,
- PSHE / PSE / PSED,
- RE / RS,
- Science
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Ecotales: Project Gloop
Published
2012
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- Website
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FREE
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Ecotales aims to educate and raise awareness of environmental issues. They have developed a short film, Gloop, which they describe as "a twisted fairytale about the price we pay for our love affair with plastic".
They have also created primary school resources based around the film, including an assembly and a series of cross curricular lessons. These can be used as stand alone activiti...
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- Art and design,
- Assembly,
- Design and technology,
- English,
- Geography,
- Mathematics,
- Science,
- Whole School
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How We Make Stuff
Published
2012
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- Website
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FREE
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This a great website based on a pop-up book ‘How we make stuff’. The book explains how we make everyday objects, from the extraction of resources to the disposal of unwanted stuff. But does it have to be this way?
In collaboration with the author, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation has developed this website to explore further how we can learn from living systems and rethink the...
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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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A Disposable Future?
Published
2011
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Book
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£16.99
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This is a GCSE Geography Toolkit from the Geographical Association exploring the issue of waste. GCSE students have grown up with cheap clothing, fast fashion and televisions, mobile phones and computers that need replacing every few years, but many are not aware that our ‘throw-away society’ generates mountains of waste.
Waste management and disposal is a political is...
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