This book provides an informative and engaging insight into why fair trade matters, and the different types of fair trade products that are available. It explains in great detail how fair trade can help reduce poverty, and analyses the economic...
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Designed for Key Stage 2 Geography, this photo-pack and DVD also fulfil the requirements of the PSHE/Citizenship curriculum. They take children on an exciting journey through the diverse communities, cultures and landscape of south India, trave...
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Arts, Clothes, Community, Culture, Environment, Farming, Festival/Celebrations, Food, Poverty, Religion, Rural, Transport, Urban
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CAFOD's livesimply challenge aims to help schoolchildren to consider "how they can make choices that will enable each of us to live simply, sustainably and in solidarity with the poor".
This photopack for primary schools has an A4 size photo...
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Aid, Charities, Child labour, Child soldiers, Community, Conflict, Drought, Education, Fair trade, Farming, Fishing, Health, Homes and Homelessness, Natural disasters, Peace, Poverty, Refugees / Asylum, Sustainable development, Waste
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This extensive primary teaching pack looks at the topic of food, from where it is grown and produced, to choices about the food we eat. The pack takes both a local and a global perspective, and includes a wide range of topics, including food mi...
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Energy and climate change, wildlife and habitats, food and farming, waste and recycling and transport are all issues tackled in these beautifully designed booklets. Each one contains background information, presents practical solutions and has ...
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This short film introduces the lives of two children growing up in Tanzania: Iddi and Esther. The video shows the daily routine for each of the children, from getting up early, the long walk to school, and snap shots from school and home life. ...
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This project provides a statistical look at many of the world’s development and environmental issues, including over 100 charts, graphs and maps. Topics covered include: water, climate change, pollution, population, energy, poverty and food sup...
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Climate change, Debt, Development, Energy, Environment, Farming, Fishing, Food, Health, Population, Poverty, Waste, Water
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Global Eye is a well designed and informative website for schools. The site was conceived by the charity Worldaware and is now funded by the Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British Geographers. ‘Global Eye Primary’ is written for th...
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Aid, Child labour, Climate change, Conflict, Conservation, Debt, Democracy, Development, Drought, Economy, Energy, Environment, Famine, Farming, Global citizenship, Globalisation, Health, Homes and Homelessness, Human rights, Interdependence, Media, Population, Refugees / Asylum, Tourism, Urban, Water
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This report and documentary explore the issue of how consumer choice impacts upon coffee producers and the environment. The film includes interviews with coffee farmers, market experts, consumer organisations and some key figures in the interna...
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This booklet considers how the lives of farmers are affected by the world trade in coffee and includes background information, a quiz, the coffee chain game, and an action page. The main activity is a simulation game which puts players in the ...
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This is a unique resource for bringing the global dimension into early years teaching. The book is the result of a three year project, working with nurseries and schools in Dorset. The booklet offers a large number of activities for nursery tea...
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This interactive CD follows on from the Chembakolli photo-pack and video. The CD includes five sections for young people to explore life in an Indian village, through film-clips, interviews, maps, photographs and songs, with activities and quiz...
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This Oxfam country profile was printed in 1993 and provides a good general overview of India, although it may be time for an up-date now. In 64 pages it addresses a wide range of issues from the main physical features, through colonial history...
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Aid, Animal welfare, Colonialism, Community, Conservation, Culture, Debt, Democracy, Development, Education, Environment, Equality, Family, Farming, Fishing, Food, Global citizenship, Health, Participation, Urban
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This booklet looks at how food is produced in the UK and worldwide and questions what is behind our food production. The booklet is relevant to many subject areas at primary level, and explores questions such as who grows our food, what are the...
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The Trading Game is a simulation designed to introduce students to the realities of trade and how it affects the prosperity of a country. The game highlights how the gap between rich and poor nations is made wider by the trading policies of th...
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Aid, Debt, Development, Economy, Equality, Farming, Human rights, Industry, International relations, Poverty, Social justice, Trade
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The first edition of this book (Ethiopia: Breaking New Ground), published in 1995 outlined clearly the challenges that people faced together with details of how this country is struggling to rebuild itself. This new text reproduces the origina...
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Aid, Animal welfare, Arms trade, Climate change, Colonialism, Community, Conflict, Culture, Debt, Democracy, Development, Economy, Education, Environment, Equality, Family, Famine, Farming, Food, Health, Homes and Homelessness, Urban
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This pack provides comprehensive coverage of the issue of food security in the region of Wadla in Ethiopia. It focuses on how this issue affects the population as well as the ways in which local people are responding to these challenges in part...
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An excellent resource book compiled by teachers from the West Midlands for teaching and learning about sustainable development issues. It was produced in the context of the World Summit on sustainable development in Johannesburg (2002) and high...
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The site consists of three main sections: information, activities and teachers section. The information provided for students is well structured and explores the real lives of small farmers and the issues of international trade in a global mark...
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A bright counting book with clear and large colourful photographs. The numbers 1-10 refer to the number of people or items on each page. It tells the story of how one pumpkin seed is looked after and grows into a pumpkin. There are detailed pho...
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