Comparing lives
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Tips on using images
How to make the most of our free photographs
Using images to introduce stories or compare thoughts about Africa can be extremely useful. This document gives some ideas of how to make the most of them. Use our online gallery to see the free selection of photographs from African countries and our projects. The photographs can be printed and used to help pupils collect information about a place through close observation. The link below will take you there.
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Ugandan shopping list
An activity comparing access to food
This lunchtime shopping list price comparison between the UK and Uganda can be used to introduce pupils to the global inequalities in access to food. Pupils take on the challenge of buying items for fictional families, with varying resources. The lesson fits well into the Geography curriculum - comparing life in an LEDC with an MEDC.
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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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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.
