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Bring a Global Dimension to your curriculum with our resources - learning requirements and curriculum objectives are featured where appropriate. Many of these ideas also contribute to Eco-Schools status.
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Bag Garden Starter Kits
Small gardens, ideal for small hands
Bag Gardens are a type of African garden that Send a Cow teaches families how to make in Africa. They are also a great way to get your pupils involved in a growing project, learning about healthy eating and life in an African country - with plenty of related resources and images to help you. These mini-gardens make the most of soil, compost and waste water, are easy to weed and can be grown in schools. Use the link below to find out more - and order a Bag Garden Starter Kit for £12, or call us on 01225 874222.
www.sendacow.org.uk/africangardens
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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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Olinga’s climate change game
Learn how a Ugandan boy is preparing for climate change
Using this fun game, case study and Powerpoint, you can help pupils to understand how climate change is already affecting families in African countries. Olinga from Uganda is an encouraging example of how using simple methods (some can be tried out in your school) and hard work can help people be more food secure for the future. At the same time, this resource will help pupils to think about their own use of energy and resources in the UK.
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Famous cow drama / school play
Fun animal drama that includes the whole class.
A lively, fun and engaging way to present the story of a family of orphans in Uganda to an assembly or as a whole class activity to another class. The story can be easily followed and is told by a group of farm animals from the UK and can be used to as part of your English curriculum.
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Make an African plastic bag football
Hold an 'African Footy' tournament!
These sheets give step-by-step instructions to help your pupils make these ‘recycled’ footballs - just like thousands of children in African countries. It’s a great activity to link to a recycling project and can be used to discuss the uses of waste materials in the UK - it’s also a really fun thing to do with your class in the Summer Term!
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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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Cabbages and Cowpats DVD (+Welsh)
A fun DVD about Africa and Send a Cow
Our ‘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 £5.99 (including p&p) call us on 01225 874 222.
www.cowforce.com/cabbages-and-cowpats
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Mokou - the stone game
A fun outdoor Lesothan game
A 5-a-side game for break times that is played in Lesotho. Mokou involves being quick on your feet and working as a team - requiring only some stones and a recycled plastic bag ball to play. Playing African games like this can be a great way of teaching how to have fun outdoors using local materials.
