During the course of a year, the UN observes a number of ‘International Days’ to raise awareness of global issues and to encourage action by governments and communities. This resource brings these issues to life in the classroom, with ideas on how young people in the UK can contribute to resolving them.
Ditch the Dirt is an exciting new STEM challenge for pupils aged 8-14 years. It enables pupils to investigate ways of making dirty water cleaner through sieving and filtering and can also be used to explore ways of making water safe to drink.
These resources on the International Women’s Day website support teachers to help students explore gender equality, and think about the extraordinary women in our everyday lives.
The Send My Friend website helps schools get involved in the Global Campaign for Education for all children. Over the last few years, thousands of schools and millions of pupils have taken part in the Send My Friend campaign and because of what they
This website, from the international charity CAFOD, includes lots of freebies for teachers. The site includes assembly ideas, downloadable resource packs, quizzes, online activities and stories suitable for using with different age groups.
This education pack is aimed at primary schools and aims to help teachers and pupils to learn about this important spring festival and the back ground to Year of the Dog, whilst exploring Chinese language culture.
These teaching activities from the Climate Coalition suggest creative ways for primary children to ‘show the love’ for things they care deeply about, that are being affected by climate change.
Tree Power provides Key Stage 2 teachers with eight interlinked sessions to deliver with their class. The pack combines the two educational strands of development education (global learning) and outdoor education, to enable children to become both (informed) Tree Explorers and (active) Tree Guardians.
These resources, a ‘similarities and differences’ workshop plan and an assembly pack, have been produced by the charity Remembering Srebrenica, which raises awareness of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The British Red Cross have produced 2 teaching activities, for ages 11-19 which provides learners with the opportunity to reflect on the crisis by considering some of the individuals involved and thinking about what people really need in a situation like this.