Comparing lives
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Rose’s Journey - game
A board game to understand more about life in Rwanda
This simple classroom game helps pupils to compare their lives with that of eleven-year-old Rose from Rwanda. Children can look at similarities and differences with their lives and have fun making their own game, deciding how the game works and discussing whether things in Rose’s life are positive or negative. You can introduce her to your class using interactive content on our kids site, Cowforce.com.
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Life in Lesotho - video clip
A day in the life of Karabo
Find out what nine-year-old Karabo does during her day and see how Send a Cow have helped her family. This video is hosted on YouTube, if you have restricted access to this site (as is the case in some Primary schools) you will not be able to view this video online.
The high-quality version of this video can be found on our Cabbages & Cowpats DVD. Order a copy here.
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Helping Berna
Explores comparisons, basic needs and different ways to help people.
A collection of three lessons, an assembly and a fun classroom game, all written for the PSHE curriculum and Citizenship QCA Unit 5 - Living in a diverse world. These activities help pupils to understand what life is like for a Ugandan orphan, how it compares to their own lives and looks at different ways of helping people.
- Helping_Berna_intro.pdf
- Helping_Berna_part_one.pdf
- Helping_Berna_part_two.pdf
- Helping_Berna_assembly.pdf
- Helping_Berna_Introduction.ppt
- Helping_Berna_part_one.ppt
- Helping_Berna_part_two.ppt
- Helping_Berna_assembly.ppt
- Helping_Berna_animals_game.ppt
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Categories: Assemblies, Children's stories, Comparing lives, Lessons, Pink poster and PSHE/Citizenship
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Spot the difference - poverty comparison
Use the Povertron to compare lifestyles
The Povertron is a machine used by Gold the cow on Cowforce.com to compare everyday items in a kitchen in the UK with their Ugandan equivalents. So, when she points to the electric light bulb, the Povertron converts it to a paraffin lamp in Uganda. This can lead to some interesting discussion about ways of life, consumption and what it means to be poor. The Spot the difference sheet is a simple activity to record learning from this activity.
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Rose’s day
Compare life in the UK with a Rwandan child's day
Linked to Rose’s day on the Cowforce.com website, these lesson ideas help pupils to compare their daily lives with those of Rose from Rwanda. They can fill in activities on a time circle and read more information about her day, prompting further discussion and learning about living in a diverse world.
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Meet Rose
Visit a Rwandan orphan's house
These lessons can help pupils to understand what everyday life is like for a child in Rwanda and link to the African Rose page on the Cowforce.com website. Rose shows visitors around her house and supporting resources explain more about her life and look at the concepts of ‘needs’ and ‘wants’. A Google Earth file is also provided, locating Rose’s house in Rwanda.
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Cabbages and Cowpats question sheets
A way to focus learning from the DVD
These questions can be a good way to guide learning from the DVD, enabling you to show the clips several times to deepen learning (preview the Life in Lesotho and the Keyhole Gardens video clips). Quick, factual questions can test their listening skills and other questions are provided to promote classroom discussion and further learning. Order a copy of the DVD here.
- Cabbages_and_Cowpats_KHG_questions_Y5_6.pdf
- Cabbages_and_Cowpats_LIL_questions_Y3_4.pdf
- Cabbages_and_Cowpats_LIL_questions_Y5_6.pdf
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Karabo’s life information boxes (+Welsh)
Background info on Karabo from Lesotho
These information boxes give insights into nine year old Karabo’s life, they can be cut up and handed out to table groups to discuss the questions are posed on each one. The boxes can also be used to promote discussion on their own, alongside the Cabbages and Cowpats DVD (preview the Life in Lesotho video clip) or Karabo’s life in Lesotho Powerpoint.
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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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Marie-Rose’s busy day
A day in the life of Marie-Rose from Rwanda
This worksheet is based around the daily routine of Marie-Rose from Rwanda. In this activity, pupils compare their daily lives with Marie-Rose’s and use fractions and decimals to help them. The sheet can be used to comapre lives and as a start of discussion about living in a diverse world.
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Categories: Blue poster, Comparing lives and Maths
