Tag: Background
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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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Map poster
Poster showing where we work, with 'Pass it on' examples
You can order this poster using the Order & sign-up page. It is for use in schools, groups, churches or wherever you want people to find out about Send a Cow’s work. The poster includes examples of how we work in three countries and has a map of Africa showing the countries that we work in, all with the theme of ‘Pass it on’ - a key part of why our work is so successful.
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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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Climate change in Africa - information boxes
Why going green matters for Africa
Africa is the continent most likely to be hardest hit by climate change. These information boxes could form a display to help pupils think about the importance of being green. The facts outline some of the possible affects of climate change and should be carefully set in the context of positive steps that pupils can carry out in the UK, as well as the positive work of Send a Cow - helping families to grow food in a sustainable way.
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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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Free Africa map screensaver
Learn your African countries while you relax
This cool screensaver will help you and your pupils learn where African countries are during quiet moments in your classroom. It was created for kids to download from the Cowforce website - but why should they get all the best stuff? Click on the file and unzip, the rest should be easy.
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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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Poverty in Africa animation
Graphic facts and figures about Africa
Taken straight from our Cowforce website, this file contains some general facts about poverty in Africa. It is a great way to introduce what it means to be poor in Africa and how it affects the way that people live and it is useful for making comparisons. You can find more on the Cowforce.com site in the War on poverty section. We have supplied an exe file for PC that should open straight up (over 2MB) or Quicktime files that are smaller for PC or MAC users.
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Google Earth African tours
Fly through tours bringing Africa into 3D with Google Earth
These lesson ideas and the tour file will help introduce Africa to your class. Try visiting Tazo’s Tour on Cowforce.com and use the Google Earth fly through to teach about landforms, population densities and vegetation cover. Or simply use Tazo’s Tour along with the lesson ideas to bring further learning about the continent. The tours are visually impressive and add an extra dimension to learning about Africa. If you haven’t got Google Earth, download it for free using this link http://www.earth.google.com
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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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‘Goats and chickens’ Powerpoint
A simple summing up of help from goats and chickens
A simple Powerpoint giving some background pictures and information about Uganda, which then explains how goats and chickens can benefit an African family. The slides loosely link with Berna’s story and include some background notes. If you would like to donate to Send a Cow using our gifts website, featuring goats and chickens, please use the link below.
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‘How a cow can help’ Powerpoint
A visual resource that introduces just what cows can do
How can a cow help a family? This Powerpoint spells it out in an easily understood and visual way that can be adapted for various age groups. A useful resource for lessons and assemblies to introduce how difference a cow can make to a poor family. Information and notes can be found below each slide. If you would like to donate to Send a Cow using our gifts website, featuring cows and other gifts, please use the link below.
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Making a difference
Ideas and exploration of Send a Cow and poverty
Four RE lesson ideas based around the subjects of poverty and making a difference. They are written for the RE topics of Barriers & Bridges, Journeys, Sacred Texts and Questions & Mysteries. Pupils are asked to look at why there is poverty in Africa and can read about how Send a Cow started, the ideas link to resources on Cowforce.com. You can view our full Christian statement using the link below.
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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/Rwanda poverty facts
Quick facts to set the scene
Information and brief statistics about life in Uganda and generally in Africa, along with some basic country comparison facts for UK, Uganda, Rwanda and the USA. Background statistics useful for Geography and for lessons referring to poverty in Africa.
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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.
