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Liven up your literacy lessons with gripping stories and colourful activities from ActionAid that show what life is like for many child refugees. Use these resources to build literacy and empathy, and to help your class to answer questions such as: ‘How is life different for child refugees?’ and, ‘if you were a refugee, what would you take?’
Format
- Website (free)
- Powerpoint
These are complete Amazon rainforest packages from ActionAid for Key Stages 1 and 2. You’ll receive worksheets, activities, PowerPoints and rainforest pictures, as well as the chance to introduce your class to the people who live in the Amazon rainforest.
Format
- Website (free)
- Website (free)
- Powerpoint
- Game
- Poster
These are complete Rio de Janeiro, Brazil packages from ActionAid for Key Stages 1 and 2. Includes worksheets, activities, PowerPoints and posters as well as the chance to introduce your class to children who live in Rio de Janeiro.
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- Website (free)
- Website (free)
- Powerpoint
- Game
- Poster
Inspire your school with stories from four fearless women who became inspirational leaders. Use this KS3 and KS4 resource from ActionAid as an assembly or in a citizenship class as a discussion starter on the issue of women’s rights.
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- Website (free)
- Powerpoint
Suitable for lessons in Geography, Citizenship and English, ActionAid’s secondary school resources on the refugee crisis will help your students to understand the lives and experiences of refugees as they tell their own stories, in their own words.
Format
- Website (free)
Practical Action has produced a range of different materials to support teachers in helping pupils understand the Global Goals (Sustainable Development Goals) and their targets; why they are important in reducing world poverty, and how pupils can take action themselves to help achieve them.
Format
- Website (free)
- PDF (free)
- PDF (free)
- Poster (free)
This activity from Practical Action helps pupils to find out about access to water and build their own filters. Working in teams pupils explore issues around access to water and cleaning water around the world. This is followed by a hands-on activity where they build their own water filters with different sets of resources depending on which country they represent.
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Format
- Website (free)
The Catholic aid charity CAFOD has developed a range of activities including film and PowerPoint to help children explore the refugee crisis in Europe.
Topics
Format
- Website (free)
- Film (free)
The Catholic aid charity CAFOD has developed a range of films, assemblies and activities to help primary pupils explore issues of climate justice and the environment.
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Format
- Website (free)
- Game (free)
- Film (free)
This collection of resources from the Catholic aid charity CAFOD will help secondary students to engage with issues around climate change. As CAFOD is a Catholic charity, many of the resources include a religious dimension.
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Format
- Website (free)
- Poster (free)
- Film (free)
- Image (free)
This collection of resources from the Catholic aid charity CAFOD helps students studying for Religious Studies GCSE to explore the issues around global justice that are part of the AQA, Edexcel or Eduqas specifications.
Format
- Website (free)
The Catholic aid agency CAFOD has produced a set of useful factsheets on a range of development issues. These are great for research, homework or a brief overview of some major themes in global development.
Format
- PDF (free)
This British Library exhibition explored literature and music from the great African empires of the Middle Ages to the cultural dynamism of West Africa today. The linked website has a set of teaching activities for Key Stages 2, 3 and 4 (ages 7 to 16).
Subjects
Art and design, English / literacy, English: literature / story, Geography, History, RE / RS
Age ranges
Format
- Website (free)
This booklet and accompanying teacher notes have been produced by York Fair Trade Forum to tell the stories of some of the many people over the years who have championed social justice and fair trade.
Subjects
Assembly, Background information, English / literacy, History, Spiritual, moral, social, cultural (SMSC)
Age ranges
KS2: ages 7-11, KS3: ages 11-14, KS4: ages 14-16, KS5: ages 16+
Topics
Format
- Booklet (£4)
- PDF (free)
A series of four lesson plans for Key Stage 4 (ages 14-16) with a specific focus on addressing extremism and radicalisation of all kinds, from the PSHE Association, commissioned by Medway Public Health Directorate.
Format
- Website (free)
This is a framework for schools to use to facilitate classroom discussions in the event of a terrorist attack.
Format
- PDF (free)
This is a set of resources from Practical Action which presents a global design challenge for students aged 11-14 years.
Format
- Website (free)
- Poster (free)
This photo-teaching resource accompanies Think Global’s 2016-2017 Global Wallplanner. It uses 24 colourful, real-life photos to explore the ‘Social and Solidarity Economy’ – a movement that seeks to alleviate poverty through community empowerment, mutual benefit and economic growth.
Subjects
Art and design, Assembly, Background information, Citizenship, Clubs and extra-curricular, English / literacy, English: ESOL / EAL, Geography, History, Languages, Science
Age ranges
Format
- PDF (free)
This is a letter to Malala Yousafzai, illustrated with beautiful photographs. Girls from around the world express their sympathy, sisterhood and admiration for her.
Format
- Book (£9.99)
This toolkit helps Maths and Geography teachers and students in secondary schools to engage with global issues, and specifically issues of female empowerment, through innovative use of real development data.
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Format
- Powerpoint (free)
- Powerpoint (free)
- Powerpoint (free)
- Powerpoint (free)
