Using Water - Green Team

A colourful information book which uses different schools around the world to illustrate the environmental and social issues surrounding our use of water. Contains practical activities and challenges to encourage children to improve their water habits.

• Hardback – Curriculum Level: Second and Third – Age Range: 8-14
• CfE Curriculum Area: Health and Wellbeing, Social Studies – Specific Subject: Geography
• Interdisciplinary Themes: Eco Schools

Using Food - Green Team

A colourful information book which uses different schools around the world to illustrate the environmental and social issues surrounding the sources of our food. It looks at what possible steps we can take to encourage fairness for growers and the environment through their food consumption.

• Hardback – Curriculum Level: Second and Third – Age Range: 8-14
• CfE Curriculum Area: Health and Wellbeing and Sciences – specific subjects: Eco Schools, Fair trade, Biology
• Interdisciplinary Themes: Eco Schools, Fair Trade Schools, playground improvement.

Mohammed's Journey - A Refugee Diary

Told from the point of view of a 15 year old Kurdish boy, this reference book traces his family’s persecution in and escape from Iraq in the 1990’s. The style is conversational with a mixture of illustrated and photographic images, while the tone is personal and reflective. Mohammed’s family endure an arduous journey from Iraq through Turkey and finally, integration as UK citizens. There are facts about the Iraqi conflict and Saddam’s dictatorship at the end. This would be a good book to introduce pupils to conflict, refugees and global interdependence.

• Hardback – Curriculum Level, Second – Age Range 9-12
• CfE Curriculum Areas: Health and Wellbeing, Religious and Moral Education, Social Studies, Literacy
• Specific subject etc: Empathy /Emotional Wellbeing, Helping Others, Geography, Discussion
• Interdisciplinary Themes: Global Citizenship, Refugees
• Specific Topics: Place/Identity

Development Reader

Based on a series of seminars on global issues, this explores a diverse range of topics such as child labour, gender, debt, trade, HIV, migration and their impact on development. Drawing on the research of many, this book helps to unpick complex issues from a range of perspectives, and provides up to date factual information. Good reference material to advance teachers’ knowledge on key issues of global interdependence.

•  Paperback – Curriculum level, Professional development

Chembakoli Life and Change in an Indian Village

The package includes 30 excellent photocards, audio stories, lesson ideas and activity sheets. A rich depiction of community life and creative learning methods make this a fabulous resource. Pupils will learn to understand how a community works and thus can have meaningful discussions on how our communities operate. It has all the ideas to become a standard community study in the classroom.

• Paperback, CD Rom, Photopack – Curriculum Level, First/Second – Age range 7-11
• CfE Curriculum Area: Religious and Moral Education, Social Studies, Literacy
• Specific subjects etc: Customs and Rituals, Geography (Water and land use), Storytelling
• Interdisciplinary themes: Citizenship, Enterprise, Drama – Role Play

Power Down, Save Energy Be the Solution (Primary)

A cross-curricular toolkit aimed at upper primary pupils, focussing on energy use at home and at school, and how this is linked to the lives of real children in Kenya, Uganda, Bangladesh and India. A set of 22 A4 thought provoking colour cards showing the causes and impacts of climate change can be used to form the basis of 10 lessons. Activities start from what children already know and want to find out and build up from there. Clearly laid out facts and solution based activities.

• Teachers’ booklet, learn and solution cards, DVD and colour photographs – Curriculum level, Second – Age range 9-12.
• CfE Curriculum area: Sciences, Social Studies
• Specific subject etc: Geography
• Interdisciplinary themes: Citizenship Specific topics: Climate change