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Around the garden in 80 ways
Tide~/Birmingham Botanical Garden
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This resource offers a wide range of ideas and case studies from Birmingham schools for using plants to raise sustainable development issues at KS2. |
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Child art with everyday materials
Tara Publishing
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Tara are a small independent Indian publisher who produce beautiful hand-crafted books. This book starts with the premise that art does not require a lot of sophisticated materials, or even a blank sheet of paper. |
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Climate change ~ local & global
Tide~
Climate change is a looming global issue, growing in size and significance.
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There are huge debates about the science involved, its likely consequences, and what can be done about it.
This resource looks at ways of supporting children’s enquiry into this complex issue.
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Food & farming ~ local & global
Tide~ with FACE
How does the food we eat tie us in to lives and places in our own country and all over the globe?
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How can we engage children in the ‘everyday complexity’ of issues about food and farming?
Food & farming shares ideas about this debate, includes examples of classroom practice.
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Heart of West Africa
Global Education, Derby
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Explores issues of cultural identity, fair trade, interdependence, conflict resolution and sustainable development through a practical exploration of West African textiles. |
Global warming
Seastar Books
A book for young people that explores the effects of global warming and climate change. |
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Go bananas
Oxfam
A photopack for ages 5-11 about the journey of a banana from the Caribbean to the UK.
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Green poems
Jill Bennett
A collection of poems about seeds, fruit, flowers, birds, insects, fish, mammals - and you and me. |
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If the world were a village
A & C Black
Helps young children make sense of the world by scaling it down to a village of 100 people. "Nine speak English, 24 have televisions and 17 cannot read."
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Jaguar
Helen Cowcher
A bilingual book set in the forests of Venezuela, with stunning illustrations. Tells the story of the hunter and the jaguar as they move through the forest, each pursuing their own ends. When the hunter comes face to face with the beauty and the majesty of the he is unable to use his gun against him.
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Mugged, poverty in your coffee cup
Charis Gresser and Sophia Tickell, Oxfam 2002
Report exploring the coffee industry.
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Out of the ashes
Michael Morpurgo
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When foot and mouth disease breaks out on a pig farm hundreds of miles from the Morley’s Devon home, no one believes it will spread very far. But now the nightmare is just a few fields away. Will the Morley’s flock be next to be destroyed? Powerful and moving fictional account of true events. |
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Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone
Timothy Basil Ering, Walker Books 2003
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Story of a young boy living in Cementland who discovers hidden treasure – a packet of 'specks' that fill Cementland with beautiful colours. |
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Sustainable world: Food and farming
Hodder Wayland
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Considers examples from around the world that show there are alternative, sustainable ways to provide food for everyone, without further harming the environment. |
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The atlas of food
Earthscan
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Uses maps, graphics and statistics to show the complex routes by which food travels from its source to our plates. |
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The Paperbag Prince
Colin Thompson
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Story of an old man living in a railway carriage on a rubbish dump. But he knows that even rubbish can sometimes contain treasure, and that if he stays long enough, gentle nature will heal the countryside and make the green come again. |
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The rain forest storybook
Rosalind Kerven
Collection of traditional stories from forest peoples around the world.
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Trash! On ragpicker children and recycling
Tara Publishing
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Set in India, this hand-crafted book tells the story of a boy who meets up with a ragpicker child, and begins to work with her. Trash! is intertwined with factual information and debates around child labour, lifestyles and waste, ragpicking and schools for working children. |
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Waste, recycling and re-use
Hodder Wayland
Looks at the issues surrounding the waste problem and why it has grown over the last fifty years.
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Water Hole
Graeme Base
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Beautifully illustrated picture book for younger readers. A fusion of counting book, puzzle book, storybook and art book which takes the reader on a journey from the plains of Africa and the jungles of the Amazon to the woodlands of North America and the deserts of outback Australia. |
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Water issues ~ local & global
Tide~
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A full colour photopack of practical ideas for using water issues as a way in to exploring sustainable development.
Includes sixteen A4 colour photographs selected to raise questions about water issues in different places all over the world.
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Whose right to water
Worldaware
An introduction to global water issues including rights to water and health concerns related to water.
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Writing from the oasis
Tide~/Birmingham Botanical Gardens
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What would you write if you were a plant? What postcards might you send from a rainforest? This resource offers inspirational ideas for KS3 English teachers about making creative use of the natural environment. |
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