Tag: Healthy
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How to make a Bag Garden
Some diagrams and a nifty animation.
Bag Gardens are a great way for classes or individual groups of children to get their hands on their first vegetable crop - African style! While they’re making one, they will learn all about the lives of children in African countries, healthy eating and how to help the environment. Preview some videos about Bag Gardens from our DVD using the YouTube link and find out more using the other links below. Call us to order a Bag Garden Starter Kit and then make your own sign.
www.youtube.com/cowforce
www.cowforce.com/african-gardens
www.sendacow.org.uk/africangardensRate and read reviews of How to make a Bag Garden
Categories: Bag gardens, Bag gardens, Gardening advice and Science
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Healthy harvest assembly
The positive power of fruit and veg!
An assembly about growing food in Rwanda. Great for Harvest and useful all year round, telling the story of a genocide orphan called Janvier. This assembly highlights the importance of healthy food in a visual and fun way. To get a copy of our Harvest materials and view other ideas, please use the link to the main Send a Cow website.
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Categories: Assemblies, Children's stories, Green poster, Other useful stuff and PSHE/Citizenship
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Fruit and vegetables shapes
Food shapes with healthy eating facts
These shapes with food facts are useful when talking about fresh food and healthy eating. They can also be used alongside the Harvest and African Gardens materials.
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Categories: Green poster, Other useful stuff and Science
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5 a day with Mpho (+Welsh)
Healthy eating lessons from Africa
These two lessons fulfill the curriculum requirement to teach about food groups through reference to the story of a four year old boy from Lesotho called Mpho. They are part global Citizenship and part Science and encourage children to think about healthy eating and specifically the goal of eating five portions of fruit and vegetables a day - fitting into QCA - Teeth and eating and other areas in Science.
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Categories: Children's stories, DVDs, Other useful stuff, PSHE/Citizenship and Science
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Beansprout feast
Growing beansprouts in your classroom
A speedy way to introduce plants and growing things to your class - get them growing healthy bean sprouts! These lessons take you right through the process from measuring to germination to eating! The activities include the scientific recording of results and are a good link to Bag Gardens, healthy eating and harvest topics.
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Categories: Green poster, Other useful stuff and Science
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Milk and veg assembly
How a cow changed a family forever
Using Theresa and Kobwemi’s story, this assembly highlights the huge difference a cow can make to a family - from the amount of milk produced and the increase in vegetables. The theme of the assembly incorporates the importance of healthy eating and drinking milk for children in the UK and links in well with QCA Unit 3A - Teeth and eating.
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Categories: Assemblies, Children's stories, Blue poster and Science
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African snack
Fast food - African style
An easy and tasty way to introduce global food issues to your class, possibly as part of an Africa day. Includes ideas for extension and further learning; could be adapted for the QCA Unit 3B - Sandwich snacks.
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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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Categories: Children's stories, Comparing lives, Keyhole gardens, Geography and Other useful stuff
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Mpho’s story (+Welsh)
Mpho is a four year old boy from Lesotho
Mpho lives with his mum and grandma, Mametseliso. Their story shows how Send a Cow training in natural farming methods can supply whole communities with the means to grow healthy food. A great case study if you are looking at the importance of healthy eating and/or growing plants and vegetables. 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.) There are various resources linked to this story mainly around using his keyhole garden and what he eats in, Mpho’s food miles and 5 a day with Mpho.
- Mpho_story.pdf
- Mpho_story_Welsh.pdf
- Mpho_story.ppt
- Fiveaday_African_style.pdf
- Keyhole_gardens_in_practice_Mpho.pdf
- Mpho_food_miles.pdf
- Lesotho_Mpho_tour.kmz
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Categories: Children's stories
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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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Keyhole Gardens in action (+Welsh)
Shows a garden being used and one being made
One of these colourful Powerpoints is from a school in Lesotho who made a Keyhole Garden to provide food for their school dinners. This can also be seen on the Cabbages and Cowpats DVD (preview using YouTube link below). The other shows how Mpho helps his grandma with their garden and benefits from the healthy food. The slides could also be printed and used as display material.
- Keyhole_gardens_in_practice_Mpho.pdf
- Keyhole_Gardens_Lesotho.ppt
- Keyhole_Gardens_Lesotho_Welsh.ppt
- Mpho_Keyhole_Garden.ppt
- Cabbages_and_Cowpats_KHG_questions_Y5_6.pdf
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Categories: Keyhole gardens
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Bag Gardens in the UK - video clip
See what this school did with their gardens
Staff and pupils got a lot out of making their Bag Gardens, click on the play button to find out more. This video is hosted on YouTube, if you have restricted access to this site (as is the case in some Primary schools) you will not be able to view this video online.
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Categories: Bag gardens and Bag gardens
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Bag Gardens in Uganda - video clip
Hope from Uganda shows how to make a Bag Garden
Hope and her friends make a Bag Garden, click on the play button to find out more. This video is hosted on YouTube, if you have restricted access to this site (as is the case in some Primary schools) you will not be able to view this video online.
The high-quality version of this video can be found on our Cabbages & Cowpats DVD. Order a copy here.
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Keyhole Gardens in Lesotho - video clip
Find out how Keyhole Gardens are used at home & school
School children in Lesotho show how to make a Keyhole Garden, click on the play button to find out more. This video is hosted on YouTube, if you have restricted access to this site (as is the case in some Primary schools) you will not be able to view this video online.
The high-quality version of this video can be found on our Cabbages & Cowpats DVD.
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Categories: DVDs and Keyhole gardens
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Bag Gardens
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, and learning about healthy eating and life in an African country. These mini-gardens make the most of good soil and compost, waste water, are easy to weed and can be grown in schools - bringing a global dimension to Science. There’s also a competition that year 9 and under can enter! Use the links below for a fun explanation and resources - where you can also order a superb Bag Garden Starter Kit.
www.cowforce.com/african-gardens
www.sendacow.org.uk/africangardensRate and read reviews of Bag Gardens
Categories: Bag gardens, Bag gardens, Green poster and Science
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