Materials & DVDs
Find resources linked to our posters, packs and the Cabbages and Cowpats DVD. The materials are listed on the left where lessons, ideas and files written to use with them can be found.
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Bag Gardens on Cowforce
Animations and child-friendly information about Bag Gardens
A great way to introduce your kids to African Bag Gardens. On this area of our Cowforce website, we meet Mr Tomato Head, a gameshow host who loves plants! He takes the user through what Bag Gardens are all about in a comic strip, how you can make one in an animation and all about the competition through a clip from the Tomato Head show.
www.cowforce.com/african-gardens
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Bag Gardens in action - stories
Three case studies of how Bag Gardens help families
These simple stories show how using Bag Gardens can really help families grow more food. They can be easily understood by children and printed out to use as part of an African Gardens display. The ‘Gardens background’ file helps set the scene to our work. Elias and Julia can also be seen on the Cabbages and Cowpats DVD using their Keyhole Garden.
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Bag Garden lesson ideas
Some ideas for further learning
Some suggestions of how you can add some extra learning to a Bag Garden project - making comparisons with life in the UK and helping children learn about the challenges that children in African countries face.
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Bag Garden Powerpoints
Explaining the what, how and why of Bag Gardens
These Powerpoints show what Bag Gardens are all about, how they are useful for African families and why they are a great idea for children in the UK to make. Pictures are included of children in the UK and Africa making gardens. They are a good way of introducing Bag Gardens to your pupils.
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African Gardens leaflet
All about Bag Gardens, the competition and ordering a kit
These leaflets explain all about the African Gardens competition and how you can purchase a Bag Garden Starter Kit for £12. The competition entries have to be by July 9th each year, but there’s nothing to stop people ordering kits and growing their own Bag Garden all year round. You can view the leaflet as a pdf and order some for for your school or event on the Order and sign up page.
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Green poster - Food and harvest
Packed with food related resources
This poster is useful all year, but fits especially well into a harvest topic. There is information about growing food in Rwanda, some fun classroom ideas, plus Janvier’s and Rose’s stories of orphan headed households who now have healthy food because of Send a Cow’s help. The lessons and resources that support the material found on this poster can be found in this section. To receive copies of this resource please use the ‘Order and Sign up’ page and to view our other materials, use the link to the main Send a Cow website.
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Pink poster
A photo-poster with background images and a story
This is a resource that provides some general images from East Africa on the front and Berna’s story, before and after, with some fun classroom activities to help your topic come alive on the reverse. There is a series of lessons and resources that support the material found on this poster. If you would like copies of this resource, please use the Order and sign up page.
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Blue poster
A photo-poster with stories and information on the back
This poster tells the stories of four groups of people helped by Send a Cow: Matia, Mare-Rose, Sanyu & Justine and Theresa & Kobwemi. It is also packed with information, fun ideas and lesson material to bring the stories to life. There are plenty of resources listed that can support learning by referring to the people on this poster. To receive copies of the poster, please use the Order and sign up page.
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Sanyu and Justine’s story
Two Ugandan girls who help in the school farm
This is the story of two schoolgirls who drink milk from a cow given to their head teacher by Send a Cow. The school has a whole farmyard of animals now that are looked after by the schoolchildren and help the pupils to stay healthy. Many of the children in the school are orphans, but are now able to get an education to help them out of poverty. Their picture is on the front of the blue poster.
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Matia’s story
Matia is 10 and part of an orphan headed household
Matia is one of eight orphans growing up in a household in southern Uganda. His story shows how the milk and manure from their cow has helped them to overcome malnutrition and extreme poverty. This story is linked to the ‘Tough Choice’ lesson and Matia’s picture is on the front of the blue poster. The .kmz file is a short Google Earth Tour showing where Matia lives (click on it if you have Google Earth, then click on the sub-folder and play.)
