Click on the chapter headings below to see the resources for that section.
- Introductory section
- 1. Me … my identity and my learning needs
- 2. Understanding social connections
- 3. Understanding commonality
- 4. Understanding interdependence
- 5. Understanding participation
- Key resources
Introductory section
Key documentation:
The global dimension in action, Use the search facility at www.qca.org.uk
Every child matters, www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/aims
Developing a global dimension in the schol curriculum, www.dfes.gov.uk/publications/guidanceonthelaw/115_00/index.htm
DCSF framework for sustainable schools, www.teachernet.gov.uk/sustainableschools
Guidance on the duty to promote community cohesion in schools, www.teachernet.gov.uk/wholeschool/communitycohesion
The learning outside the classroom manifesto, www.teachernet.gov.uk/learningoutsidetheclassroom
The primary review, www.primaryreview.org.uk
The World Classroom – Developing global partnerships in action, www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/world-classroom.pdf
Putting the world into world-class education, Search for policy documents at www.globalgateway.org.uk
Just Linking ~ A handbook for linking schools, Published by Leeds Development Education Centre, ISBN: 9780955003882
Can be obtained from Oxfam Education Website, http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education or from Leeds DEC, email: resources@leedsdec.org.uk
1: Me … my identity and my learning needs
SEAL [Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning], www.bandapilot.org.uk/primary/
Sustainable schools, www.teachernet.gov.uk/sustainableschools/
Philosophy for children, www.sapere.net
Reggio Emilia [Italy], http://zerosei.comune.re.it
Benjamin Zephaniah website, www.benjaminzephaniah.com
Family album ~ photos and activities to explore family issues, Published by Tide~ global learning
Just Linking ~ A handbook for linking schools, Published by Leeds Development Education Centre, ISBN: 9780955003882
Can be obtained from Oxfam Education Website, http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education or from Leeds DEC, email: resources@leedsdec.org.uk
A different story ~ literacy to open up the world at KS2, Published by Tide~ global learning
Start with a story ~ supporting young children’s exploration of issues, Published by Tide~ global learning
See article Using story for details of the story books featured in this section
2: Understanding social connections
ICT climate change project, www.climatechange.wmnet.org.uk
Thinking through climate change, www.wmnet.org.uk/resources/ttcc
Learning outside the classroom manifesto, www.teachernet.gov.uk/learningoutsidetheclassroom
Learning journeys
Published by Language Alive! and Tide~ global learning
3: Understanding commonality
QCA Citizenship Unit 5: Living in a diverse world, www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes2/ks1-2citizenship
TFF News Navigator, www.transnational.org/Resources_Media/TNN.html
QCA Geography Schemes of Work, www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes2/geography
A different story ~ literacy to open up the world at KS2, Published by Tide~ global learning
Window by Jeannie Baker, Published by Walker Books, ISBN 9780744594867, www.walker.co.uk
Boy Overboard by Morris Gleitzman, Published by Puffin Books, ISBN 9780141316253, www.puffin.co.uk
Teaching Geography in Primary Schools by Fran Martin, Published by Chris Kington Publishing, ISBN 18999857834
www.teachingexpertise.com/area/geography
From dawn to dusk, Series of non-fiction books set in various countries, Published by Frances Lincoln
http://www.franceslincoln.com/index.php?page=results&biccode=656&c=1
Water issues ~ local & global, Published by Tide~ global learning
4. Understanding interdependence
Sustainable schools doorwayswww.teachernet.gov.uk/sustainableschools/framework/framework_detail.cfm
Writing our past, Published by Tide~ global learning
Jamaica ~ out of many, one people, Published by Tide~ global learning
5: Understanding participation
GLOBE programme, www.globe.org.uk
Water Maths, www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/water_for_all
Thinking through climate change, www.wmnet.org.uk/resources/ttcc
Environmental footprints, www.footprintnetwork.org
Nek Chand’s rock garden, www.clt.astate.edu/elind/nc_main.htm
Plastic carrier bags, www.environ.ie/en/Environment/Waste/PlasticBags
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_shopping_bag
Case studies on zero waste, www.zeri.org
House made of recycled tyres, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3655022.stm
‘Earthship’ homes, www.greenhomebuilding.com/earthship.htm
Wastewatch, www.wastewatch.org.uk
Climate change ~ local & global, Published by Tide~ global learning
21st century debates: Waste, recycling and reuse by Rob Bowden
Published by Hodder Wayland
ISBN: 978 0 7502 3819 9, www.waylandbooks.co.uk
Global learning ~ key resources
The global dimension in action, ~ A curriculum planning guide for schools, QCA 2007
Use the search engine at www.qca.org.uk
Global dimension website, www.globaldimension.org.uk
Oxfam education website, www.oxfam.org.uk/education
Geographical Association website, www.geography.org.uk
Trentham Books, www.trentham-books.co.uk
Teaching Geography in Primary Schools by Fran Martin, Published by Chris Kington Publishing
ISBN 18999857834
http://sharedweb.srv.poptel.org.uk/chriskingtonpublishing/index.html
Here, there and everywhere ~ belonging, identity and equality in schools, by Robin Richardson
Published by Trentham Books, ISBN: 9781858563435
www.trentham-books.co.uk
Young children & global citizenship, Published by Tide~ global learning
