Background info
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Uganda - country information sheets
Facts and background info - great for projects
These sheets give a brief overview of Uganda, with information on the geography, culture and issues in the country. They are useful if you are studying Uganda in topic work and offer comparisons with the UK, they also link well to the stories of Matia, Sanyu, Theresa and Berna. You can find all sorts of images from Uganda in our gallery. And you can make a donation to our work in Africa, including in Uganda by following this link.
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Uganda photo pack
Ugandan pictures with questions and info
This photo pack has twenty sheets of images with questions and links to information on the reverse. The pictures are of farming, gardens and of food being grown, stored and processed. They are great for any Africa topic work and especially if you are looking at food, farming and climate change with your pupils. The files sizes are large as they are high quality - but they’re worth the wait!
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Build an African Farmyard - ideal for Harvest
Learn and fundraise in this exciting art project
‘Build an African Farmyard’ is a fundraising and learning resource that’s all about creating a fantastic wall display of an East African farm (it’s perfect for a Harvest topic, but also great all year round). We provide you with the information, ideas and illustrations of the elements on the farm to photocopy, colour in and add textiles to… and your class learn, have fun and raise money - simple!
Go to the Build an African Farmyard page on the Send a Cow website to find out more, download the pack and order the display poster (you can also order the poster here).
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Kampala or Bristol?
Satellite images that show urban and rural Uganda
This PowerPoint file shows images from Google Earth of a city, town and village in Uganda. It starts with images of Bristol to allow comparisons, and is annotated to help your pupils think more about what they think an African country such as Uganda is like. This activity will help to bring balance to other work on Uganda which may focus more on rural Uganda. You can easily extend this activity by touring Uganda using Google Earth.
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Lesotho - country information sheets
Facts and background info - great for projects
These sheets give a brief overview of Lesotho, with information on the geography, culture and issues in the country. They are useful if you are studying Lesotho in topic work and offer comparisons with the UK, they also link well to the stories of Mpho, and Karabo. You can also browse a number of images from Lesotho in our image gallery.
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Kenya - country information sheets
Facts and background info - great for projects
These sheets give a brief overview of Kenya, with information on the geography, culture and issues in the country. They are useful if you are studying Kenya in topic work and offer comparisons with the UK. You can make a donation to our work, including projects in Kenya, using this link.
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Rwanda - country information sheets
Facts and background info - great for projects
These sheets give a brief overview of Rwanda, with information on the geography, culture and issues in the country. They are useful if you are studying Rwanda in topic work and offer comparisons with the UK, they also link well to the stories of Rose, Marie-Rose and Janvier. You can find all sort of images from Rwanda in our gallery. And you can make a donation to help a Rwandan orphan group by following this link.
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Outline maps of Africa
Colour-in Africa maps for display or country location
If you are doing a project on African countries, or are supporting Send a Cow in some way - get children to locate the countries using these maps. Useful for photocopying to A3 to annotate for display and in two versions - with country names and without. You might even find them useful to learn your African countries, or go one step further - download our free Africa map screensaver for your desktop/whiteboard.
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Cowforce Africa quiz
Fun online linked activity to introduce Africa
These short quizzes can be filled out while pupils visit our engaging, award winning website www.cowforce.com. This IT activity will give pupils a fun introduction to life in Africa and the diversity of the continent.
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Africa/Uganda background
Snippets of interesting information
A series of interesting background information boxes about everyday life in Africa and, specifically in Uganda. For use in general project work/displays and in comparing an LEDC with an MEDC, also ties in well with Citizenship QCA Unit 5 - Living in a diverse world.
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