A study of sustainable urban living
This is a GCSE Geography Toolkit from the Geographical Association exploring the concept of sustainability – a term much used, and abused, these days, but central to modern geography. This is much in evidence in the new GCSE specifications whic...
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geography@work is a series designed to model the new Key Stage 3 Programme of Study for Geography. It aims to focus on 'real places, real spaces and real enquiries', with topics that are relevant to young people.
Each student book has a CD-R...
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Community, Development, Drought, Equality, Identity, Natural disasters, Rural, Sustainable development, Urban, Waste, Water
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This CD-ROM links in with Action Aid's resources about the Indian village of Chembakolli, extending the study to explore life in other areas of southern India such as the Nilgiri Hills and Bangalore. It includes beautiful photographs, animation...
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A journey through south India
Designed for Key Stage 2 Geography, this photo-pack and DVD also fulfil the requirements of the PSHE/Citizenship curriculum. They take children on an exciting journey through the diverse communities, cultures and landscape of south India, trave...
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Arts, Clothes, Community, Culture, Environment, Farming, Festival/Celebrations, Food, Poverty, Religion, Rural, Transport, Urban
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This CD-ROM is suitable for primary Geography teaching. The CD is well laid out, and colourful, and includes 10 classroom activities which can be shown on an interactive whiteboard, or printed out. The CD also includes photographs, maps, games ...
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This extensive CD pack includes several films about life in Kolkata, India. The DVD show the lives of two children growing up in Kolkata: Sagari who is 12, and Liril who is 11. The DVD also includes short films about Hinduism, transport, the si...
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This photo pack explores several aspects of life in Kenya, and is suitable for pupils aged 7 to 11. The pack includes several large format posters (A2 and A0), and plenty of activities on the back. The lesson ideas include investigating photogr...
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This website from AusAid (the Australian government’s aid department), includes a large number of free lesson plans. Although they are designed for teaching in Australia, many of the lesson plans would be suitable for use in a UK classroom, par...
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Child rights, Development, Education, Environment, Food, Gender, Globalisation, Government, Health, HIV/Aids, Natural disasters, Peace, Poverty, Refugees / Asylum, Rural, Urban
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This primary pack from the charity CAFOD introduces a distant locality through photos and case studies of life in Peru. Investigating familiar aspects of life such as home, school, cooking and play, children can compare their experiences of lif...
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This pack is designed to help Primary teachers with Geography lesson planning. The book covers a very wide range of topics, from the environment, global citizenship, sustainable development and fair trade, to locality studies in India, the lake...
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This extensive Geography pack from Save the Children is excellent value for money. The pack includes a 40 minuite video, a poster, 16 photo cards and a teacher's book with extensive notes and 20 teaching activities. The pack looks at the themes...
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This updated edition of the Afghanistan country profile book explores the impact of politics (regional and global) on the everyday lives of Afghans. It avoids the simplistic interpretations of Islamic culture promoted by the mass media and atte...
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Aid, Arms trade, Conflict, Crime, Culture, Development, Equality, Gender, Health, Poverty, Refugees / Asylum, Religion, Rural, Urban
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This Oxfam country profile provides a good general overview of India. In 96 pages it addresses a wide range of issues from the main physical features, through colonial history, to the more recent urban explosion. Each chapter consists of betw...
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Aid, Animal welfare, Colonialism, Community, Conservation, Culture, Debt, Democracy, Development, Education, Environment, Equality, Family, Farming, Fishing, Food, Global citizenship, Health, Participation, Urban
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This is a comprehensive book that examines a wide range of factors that have helped to create patterns of rural settlement in various parts of the world today. It gives a concise theoretical review of concepts related to rural settlement - defi...
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The first edition of this book (Ethiopia: Breaking New Ground), published in 1995 outlined clearly the challenges that people faced together with details of how this country is struggling to rebuild itself. This new text reproduces the origina...
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Aid, Animal welfare, Arms trade, Climate change, Colonialism, Community, Conflict, Culture, Debt, Democracy, Development, Economy, Education, Environment, Equality, Family, Famine, Farming, Food, Health, Homes and Homelessness, Urban
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Earthworks 1 is an enquiry-based course book in which varied activities, real life case studies, topics issues, and work on skills, themes and places are moulded together into a course to suit specialist and non-specialist geography teachers al...
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Climate change, Economy, Environment, Farming, Food, Global citizenship, Globalisation, Refugees / Asylum, Sustainable development, Transport, Urban
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This website provides an opportunity for pupils living in the East End of London to talk and write about their perceptions and experiences although the issues are of interest to pupils living in other areas of the UK and across the world. The w...
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Community, Development, Diversity and Inclusion, Environment, Family, Festival/Celebrations, Food, Racism, Refugees / Asylum, Transport, Urban
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This active learning resource, from one of Scotland's Development Education Centres, looks at the topic of land. The book introduces the theme through a series of active learning activities, which consider land issues in Scotland and South Afri...
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A practical classroom guide
This is a good resource full of practical classroom activities. The first section provides a theoretical context of belief that young people should be encouraged to explore their hopes and fears for the future of society and the planet and dev...
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Citizenship, Economics, English, Environmental Studies, ESD / Global Citizenship, Geography, History, Local and Global Citizens, Modern Studies, PSHE / PSE / PSED, RE / RS
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Aid, Appropriate technology, Arms trade, Conservation, Debt, Development, Economy, Environment, Farming, Food, Global citizenship, Human rights, Industry, Participation, Racism, Sustainable development, Urban
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This is a very good, well-produced, up to date, comprehensive active learning resource for helping students to investigate interdependence and social justice. It is set within the island of Ireland and at the international scale. It is a valu...
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Aid, Appropriate technology, Colonialism, Conservation, Culture, Debt, Development, Economy, Employment, Energy, Environment, Equality, Farming, Food, Gender, Health, Human rights, Industry, Interdependence, International relations, Natural resources, Population, Poverty, Refugees / Asylum, Sustainable development, Trade, Transport, Urban, Water, World Bank and IMF
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