Tag: Comparing
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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 and Theresa. 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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Four Ugandan children’s games
A collection of games played by African children
Many of the games that children play in East Africa are about things in their everyday lives: food, family and homemaking. Children play them in school fields, at home or on un-used land in their neighbourhood. These games, on the pdf below the video, are from a group of children near Iganga, Uganda. Before Send a Cow helped their families, many of these children were malnourished, only ate one meal a day and had very little energy to play. Through training in natural farming with their families, the children are now able to enjoy their childhoods and grow up healthily – having enough nutritious food for three meals a day and having the skills to grow food for the rest of their lives.
If you don’t have access to Vimeo.com to watch videos at school, register for an account on their website at home and then you can download all our videos using the link on the bottom right of each video page.
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African Walk on Wednesday
Motivate your pupils to walk to school!
For Walk on Wednesday, why not do something different to motivate your pupils to be healthy and help them learn about Africa while they walk? You’ll be joining in with the thousands of children across Africa who walk to school every day. There are ideas and resources for what you can do on each day, (such as playing African games, making plastic bag footballs and eating African fruit), along with a Powerpoint to introduce the idea to pupils. Plus, there are some information boxes about life in East Africa and illustrations to help you to create a classroom display. We’d also love it if you chose to take the opportunity to get children sponsored and fundraise for Send a Cow.
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East African Advent Tree
Have an African Christmas in your classroom
A great resource for Christmas/Advent, these sheets help make a fantastic acacia tree that will create a colourful wall display. During Advent, your children will learn about Christmas in African countries and do something kind at school or home as hangings are added to the acacia tree. They are large file sizes, so please be patient. You can also see all of the information on a page with links to recipes etc 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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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. 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. For more information for Welsh schools wanting to partner with a Lesothan school, visit the Dolen Cymru website.
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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. If you don’t have access to Vimeo.com at school, register for an account on their website at home and then you can download all our videos using the link on the bottom right of each video page. For more information for Welsh schools wanting to partner with a Lesothan school, visit the Dolen Cymru website.
A child’s day in Lesotho - keyhole gardens in action from Send a Cow on Vimeo.
You can download these videos for use in schools (if Vimeo is blocked) by creating a Vimeo.com account, going to the video and choosing the ‘download’ option on the right.
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Mountain kingdom of 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 of the mountain kingdom. They are useful if you are studying Lesotho in Geography ‘Mountains and Sustainability’ 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. For more information for Welsh schools wanting to partner with a Lesothan school, visit the Dolen Cymru website.
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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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Images, photos, pictures!
Galleries of free photos from Africa
Visit our gallery where you can view and download hundreds of images taken in African countries. The pictures can be used for all sorts of activities, including comparing lives, making leaflets, finding out about animals, making African gardens and lots more. Have a look at the tips pdf to make the most of the images and if you would like access to even more pictures, log in to the main Send a Cow images site.
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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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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, or by viewing this video piece (watch the Life in Lesotho video clip) or Karabo’s life in Lesotho Powerpoint. For more information for Welsh schools wanting to partner with a Lesothan school, visit the Dolen Cymru website.
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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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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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Drop Scotch
Fun hopping game from Lesotho
A variation of Hop-Scotch played in Lesotho by Julia. The game involves shunting a shoe polish tin around a grid as you hop. Not as easy as it sounds, but really good fun! You could have a competition to see who can get to the end.
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Dodgeball
Lively African ball game
This is a popular game in East Africa, game played in many school playgrounds. It involves at least three players and lots of running and dodging. It can be a good way of getting pupils active at breaktime.
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Circle game
Fun, small group game from Rwanda
A group game for break times, also called, ‘drop the hanky’, can be used to highlight similarities and differences in forms of play. Rose from Rwanda plays this game, it involves being quick on your feet and being sneaky.
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Bounceball
Simple but fun playground game
A Rwandan ball game for the playground which Rose from Rwanda plays, much like more traditional forms of play from the UK. It is quite easy to explain, but difficult to do! A good outdoor activity for an Africa day breaktime.
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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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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 day
A whole day learning about and celebrating Africa
A day’s worth of fun activities and ideas for inside and outside the classroom. An Africa day can bring the Global Dimension to the whole school or a whole key stage - educating your pupils about life in different countries. Ideas for Geogrpahy Unit 22 (Passport to the world) are included. Why not book one of our free speakers to come to your school too? Have fun!
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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.
