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Cabbages and Cowpats DVD (+Welsh)
A fun DVD about Africa and Send a Cow
Our brand new ‘Cabbages and Cowpats’ DVD has been produced for primary schools and group use. It features short films about children’s lives in Lesotho, African gardens and Send a Cow’s work in Africa. The DVD is strong on promoting sustainability and healthy eating, it’s accompanied by toe-tapping music, engaging animations and an easy-to-follow storyline - much of it has a Welsh language option. Your kids will watch it until the cows come home! Watch some clips using the links. To buy a copy for just £6 (including p&p) call us on (01225) 874 222. Or use the order form.
www.cowforce.com/cabbages-and-cowpats
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Categories: Visual aids, DVDs, Keyhole gardens, Geography and Other useful stuff
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Climate change in Africa - information boxes
Why going green matters for Africa
Africa is the continent most likely to be hardest hit by climate change. These information boxes could form a display to help pupils think about the importance of being green. The facts outline some of the possible affects of climate change and should be carefully set in the context of positive steps that pupils can carry out in the UK, as well as the positive work of Send a Cow - helping families to grow food in a sustainable way.
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Categories: Facts & figures, Geography and Other useful stuff
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Book a free speaker
Find out more about Africa and Send a Cow - book now!
If you would like to find out more about our work and help pupils learn about life in African countries, why not book a speaker to come and give a talk? We have ‘Ambassadors’ around the country who speak about Send a Cow - many of them have first-hand experience of our projects. They often use Powerpoint slides, DVDs and visual props, and are a great way of bringing our work to life in an assembly, workshop or lesson. So, to add to pupils’ learning or help with fundraising, call our bookings secretary, Jodie Sampson on (01531) 821751, or email Alternatively, download and print out the speaker booking form below.
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African recipes
Simple but tasty African dishes to try out!
These recipes will spice up your learning about African countries and have been chosen as most are fairly easy to make. Types of food eaten across Africa varies greatly and is partly dependant on access to different ingredients. Often poor families will have to survive on a diet of beans and rice, but when money starts coming into a household and more food is grown, children’s diets become more varied, healthy. . . and tasty!
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How to make a fuel efficient stove
Simple mud stove design that saves wood
These stoves are used in Send a Cow training in African countries as they use less wood and take smoke away from the cook. They are also a great idea for a design project for older pupils. You can make them over the period of a few days, depending on the weather, and with a bit of supervision they can be cooking their own food on it within a week! You could also set pupils the task of designing their own versions of the stove using various different materials.
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Karabo’s life in Lesotho Powerpoint
Questions and pictures exploring life in Lesotho
This Powerpoint invites pupils to look at similarities and differences between their lives and that of Karabo from Lesotho. Her day can be seen in full on the Cabbages and Cowpats DVD (preview the Life in Lesotho video clip). These slides show several pictures from her everyday life, including her home, school and doing jobs and a series of questions are posed to get children thinking. This resource can act as a good starting point for discussion and is linked to other resources about Karabo’s life.
- Karabo_life_in_Lesotho.ppt
- Karabo_life_information_boxes.pdf
- Cabbages_and_Cowpats_LIL_questions_Y3_4.pdf
- Cabbages_and_Cowpats_LIL_questions_Y5_6.pdf
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Categories: Comparing lives, DVDs, Other useful stuff and PSHE/Citizenship
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Wire toys
Make your own version of these African toys
This lesson is based on the toys that children in Africa often make out of wire and ‘scrap’. There are examples of these ingenious toys in the Powerpoint below and hints and tips for how to make your own. This makes a great Art lesson and can lead to some discussion about different cultures and recycling waste materials. Children should wear safety goggles for this one!
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Categories: Art and Other useful stuff
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Mpho’s food miles (+Welsh)
Comparing where children's food comes from
This lesson plan focuses on where the food we eat comes from and the concept of ‘food miles’. It uses the story of Mpho - a four year old boy from Lesotho, who eats vegetables grown in his family’s Keyhole Garden. Where his food is grown is compared to where pupils get their food from, in the activity. It links well to QCA Geography Unit 8 - ‘Connecting ourselves to the world’. The .kmz file is a short Google Earth Tour showing where Mpho lives (click on it if you have Google Earth, then click on the sub-folder and play.)
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Categories: Children's stories, Comparing lives, Keyhole gardens, Geography and Other useful stuff
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How to make a Tip Tap handwashing device
Easy to make African tap for a school garden
A fun, practical challenge for pupils. They can get into groups and make their own version of this simple water conserving/hygiene device used in Africa. A great addition to your school garden and they work well next to Bag or Keyhole gardens. Links can easily be made to the DT curriculum (eg Moving toys). You can also enter the ‘Best Tip-Tap’ category in our African Gardens Competition by using the entry form contained in our kits.
- Tip-Taps_intro.ppt
- How_to_make_a_tip_tap.pdf
- How_to_make_a_Tip-Tap.ppt
- Tip-Tap_ideas_pictures.pdf
- Tip-Tap_sign.pdf
- African_Gardens_Rules.pdf
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African snack
Fast food - African style
An easy and tasty way to introduce global food issues to your class, possibly as part of an Africa day. Includes ideas for extension and further learning; could be adapted for the QCA Unit 3B - Sandwich snacks.
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