Education for Global Citizenship is based on:

• relevance to young people's interest and needs
• developing relevant values and attitudes, and personal and social education
• valuing all equality pupils and addressing inequality in the school and the wider
•    community
• developing a sense of identity and self-esteem
• supporting and encouraging young peoples motivation to bring about change
• learning from experience of others around the world
• a holistic approach to the curriculum

Education for Global citizenship aims to empower learners. It promotes participative teaching approaches which can be adapted across ability levels and age groups. The following resources will help support an innovative approach to teaching and learning in the Global Dimension in the Primary school.

Global Citizenship - The handbook for primary teaching

A clear easy to use, and comprehensive guide to teaching the existing curriculum in a way that promotes social justice and equity. This handbook helps readers to develop their own understanding of global citizenship, and provides practical pointers on how to integrate the subject into the classroom. It is full of activities and photocopiable resources fro use in the classroom and assemblies.
5 - 11 • Chris Kington / Oxfam  £25.00

Global Focus Weeks in Primary School - A guide for teachers

Global focus weeks enable children to learn more about children in different parts of the world and issues that affect them. This useful teachers resource is full of practical ideas for creative themes and activities for a week long class or school project. It's a fun and interactive way to raise pupils awareness of the world they live in and the part they play in it. The book includes an extensive related resource list.
4 - 11 • South West EES / Glade  £4.00

Auditing Citizenship-Citizenship and PSHE Curriculum Audit for Key Stage 1&2

A practical and readable guide to clarifying and defining citizenship and PSHE teaching in schools. It provides a clear framework, including pre-prepared audit grids, to assess which aspects of the English Curriculum is being covered is in lessons. This also helps busy teachers to share information and get a useful overview of their teaching practice.
5-11 • DEC South Yorkshire  £5.57

Just Linking - A guide to linking Schools

This handbook and DVD offer a practical offer a practical, tested model for any school wanting to explore global issues by linking with contrasting schools within the UK. It draws on the experience of primary teachers who have developed successful links and, in addition to describing the process, includes classroom activities to enhance links and deliver lessons of important global themes.
4-11 • Leeds DEC  £11.25

how do we know it's working? (New resource)

A toolkit for measuring attitudinal change from early years to KS5.
This toolkit provides a set of ideas and resources that are practical, challenging
and engaging for teachers and their pupils. It presents a model of very interesting
action research and, in achieving all this, it makes a real contribution to current themes and debates in the educational arena. The activities in this pack provide a means for teachers to measure changes in pupils' knowledge, values and attitudes as Global Citizenship. Teachers can asses how effective they are being in delivering Global Citizenship in their classrooms and embedding it throughout the curriculum and ethos of their school.
Risc • £19.95 includes a resource CD

Change the World in 8 Steps - A set of posters and activities for 7-14 year olds investigating the UN Millennium Development Goals

This thought provoking poster pack is specially designed to help students easily understand the issues surrounding the UN Millennium Development Goals, the international targets for reducing world poverty by 2015. It's a fantastic way to make world issues relevant to children's lives.
Features:

• 9 A2 full colour posters clearly illustrating each goal with photographs
• ideas for teaching children about topics such as environment or HIV & AIDS
• activities to encourage discussion and help pupils consider how they can contribute to the work towards the end of world poverty

7-14 • Oxfam  £15.00    Also available in Polish

Families Pack

In this photo pack four children from the UK, Philippines, Bosnia and Burkino Faso tell us about their experiences. It contains a diverse set of materials that include two story books, 8 colour A3 photos of children and their families, a world map and a teachers book of activities - with background information, interviews with children and classroom activities. Pupils will explore what families are about, whilst being introduced to subjects such as fairness, justice and children's rights and responsibilities.
4 - 11 • Save the Children  £17.50

ARTS & CRAFTS

Adinkra

A primary cross-curricular project, using a textile tradition from Ghana to explore
children's values and identity. This unique cross-curricular resource uses the Ghanain printing tradition of Adinkra to teach art and design, technology and global citizenship. A step by step guide enables teachers to take children through a project to create a symbol celebrating their own identity, and offers an innovative way of addressing self -representation and challenging stereotypes of Africa.
4 - 11 • Risc £16.00

Craft Without Limits (4 books)

Children of all ages will love this outstanding series of art and craft books.
All base an unimaginable feast of creativity around the use of simple everyday
materials and objects. Drawing on the immense wealth of Indian tradition,
they make innovative creative workbooks for teachers and parents, and feature
inspirational colour photos of crafts made by children.
 1. Child Art with Everyday Materials - £10.75
 2. Toys and Tales with Everyday Materials - £13.99
 3. Masks and Performance with Everyday Materials - £13.99
 4. Puppets Unlimited with Everyday Materials - £13.99
Available separately or as a set of 4.
8 - 14 • Tara  £44.50
 

heArt of West Africa - Textiles and Global issues

Art is an ideal medium for learning about the world because it expresses feelings,
values and ideas. This beautiful book features five different craft activities from
Mali, Nigeria, Ghana and Benin. It includes a history of the techniques and a step-by-step guide with colour photos, illustrations and links to global issues such as fair trade, interdependence and conflict resolution.
All ages • Global Education Derby £13.99
 

BIG BOOKS

Abu Lives in Kenya

Abu is a 7 year Muslim boy who introduces readers to every aspect to of his
life in Kenya - family, friends, school and religion. It has excellent photos and
dicussion points and helps children to think about their place in the world and
look at similarities and differences between their lives and those of others.
It's particularly suitable for literacy hours, and includes a game and glossary.
Smaller versions of the book are also available for independent and group readers.
6 - 9 • Christian Aid £19.00 Big Book • £3.50 Reader  • £17,50 set of Six
 

In the Eye of the Storm - Life on an island in Bangladesh

Discover what life's on the Bangladesh island of Kukri Mukri. Family life,
school, home and food are all introduced alongside beautiful photographs.
The book includes thought provoking questions  to help  comparisons with their own lives, background information and a glossary.
The video supports and builds on the books exploring the use and importance of water in an area that is prone to cyclones. Also available in small readers.
7 - 9 • Action Aid £25.95 Big Book • Reader £7.50 • Video £25.75

Luis and Richard Live in Peru

This beautifully photographed big book introduces children to home, family. school,
faith and holidays of two boys in a Peruvian desert town. it encourages primary children
to similarities between the lives of the two boys and their own, and to challenge stereotypes of different cultures. A CD ROM includes worksheets for activities in RE,
Literacy, Geography and Spanish.
7 - 11 • Christian Aid £29.95

Kosovan Journeys - Refugee children tell their story

A fascinating insight into the lives of two refugee children who arrive in the UK.
Their real life stories are told with easy to understand background information and
colourful photos - one child goes home and another settles in Ireland. The story help
challenge stereotypes and show pupils similarities and differences between people
in the global community.  
7 - 11 • Refugee  Council £7.00

GEOGRAPHY

Climate Change - Local and Global

A clear and imaginative look at climate change. Developed by teachers, it provides
a framework for stimulating pupils to think about this complex issue. Chapters cover
what climate change is, why it matters and what we can do to minimise it, all interspersed with colourful photos, diagrams and debate points.
7 - 14 • Tide £11.00

If the World Were a Village

' This remarkable and beautiful book….brings world politics.economics and cultural diversity within understanding of young people.'  The Guardian
Beautifully illustrated, this is a simple yet fascinating way to inspire children tp take an interest in geography and citizenship.
7 - 14 • A & C Black Pub. Ltd £6.99

India : Children's  Needs; Children's Rights

This pack features a lively  'journey through India' board game, colour photos and
photocopiable teaching resources for children at a range of levels, and provides  
an overview of diverse lifestyles and locations in India. Links to the UN Convention
on the Rights of the Child encourage pupils to consider how the rights of some children are being met much more effectively than others. It includes units on habitat, water and health, food and shopping, education and play, festivals and faiths and history.
4 - 11 • UNICEF £11.60 (includes15A4 photos)

Bangladesh - Photo Activity Pack

This photopack allows pupils to find out how life compares for people in Bangladesh
and Bangladeshis living in Oldham. Useful for promoting tolerance and racial harmony,
the booklet uses photos and a variety of activities to highlight the differences and similarities between families in each community. It includes photocopiable worksheets, background information and case studies from both communities.
7 - 14 • Oldham Met. Borough Council  £26.25 (includes 25 A4 colour photos)

Focus on St Lucia - Photopack

Includes background information on the area, photographs, activities and landscape,
tourism and crops and various maps for primary geography.
7 - 11 • GA  £26.00

Go Bananas! - Photopack

Follows the journey of a banana from the Carribean to the UK. Pupils can understand
that some food is produced overseas, become familiar with the processes that follow,
and engage with issues of fair trade. The activities are ideal for independent work,
small groups or the whole class. The resource includes 18 colour photos and related
activities: worksheets ,puzzles and maps: Up to date background information and
curriculum links.
7 - 11 • Oxfam  £14.00

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Lessons in Sustainability  -  What on earth is happening?  How do we respond?

This handbook contains ideas  and materials for teaching about sustainable development. There are also suggestions for starting points, planning, methodology
and differentiation. Topics covered include water, food, waste and climate.
7 - 14 • Tide  £8.25

Educating for Sustainability - a resource fro teachers and children

Produced with the Gambian Environment Agency, this is short guide to teaching children about sustainable development. It is full of information and has lots of ideas for classroom activities looking at topics which relate to the pupils own lives, such as
tourism, waste management and recycling.
7 - 14 • Tide - NEA Gambia  £6.75

Water Issues - Local and Global - Exploring sustainable development

All issues to do with water are covered in this colourful booklet. The pack focuses
on water as a way of exploring sustainable development. 16 beautiful coloured photocards help pupils think about water issues in different countries. the booklet
is packed with a wide range of activities photos ,diagrams and discussion points.
the teachers who developed this resource found water was an excellent starting
point for key stage 2 pupils to explorethe world and it's complexities.
7 - 11 • Tide  £13.75

Focus on Rainforests

This photopack will help young people to appreciate the importance of rainforests for
their amazing diversity, for climate control, as a source of food and medicines and
as a place where people live and work. Pupils are given the chance to explore:
* how and why rainforests are lost
* the tensions between conservation and development
* the global and local action that might provide a more sustainable future
7 - 11 • WWF  £12.00

Food and Farming - Local and Global - Planting ideas, growing ideas

Designed to encourage children to think about where the food they eat comes from,
this lively and clear booklet looks at how food is grown and farmed, and who produces it.
It will help pupils understand how our food links to countries around the world and the
impact trade has on people's lives. There are phtocopiable materials, classroom activities , colour photos, case studies and opportunities for assessment and evaluation.
7 -14 • Tide  £8.75

Citizenship of the Future - A practical classroom guide

This is a clear informative guide for teachers incorporating citizenship issues into
their lessons. Part one features background information and curricular contexts.
The second half of the book is full of classroom activities and phtocopiable material
to help children explore issues around working towards a more sustainable future
for he world.
8 - 13 • WWF  £12.99

HISTORY

Olaudah Equiano in Sheffield (The Slave Trade)

South Yorkshire, the Slave Trade and it's Abolition
This pack includes activities and web links for interactive white board support.
'Equiano is a fabulous resource to use with children. it is packed with fascinating and clearly set out actual historical resources that capture interest and motivate us to consider the plight of slaves in a heartfelt way. There is plenty of material that can be used across the curriculum supporting the development of skills in history geography
literacy, maths and RE. The texts also provide good material for use in Philosophy4Children.
Key stage 2 & 3 • DEC(south Yorkshire £5.00

Olaudah Equiano

The life of Olaudah Equiano
Key stage 2 & 3 • £6.99

Equiano's Daughter - the life and Times of Joanna Vassa

This book is a remarkable achievement and adds another ripple in the trail to discover more about a great man and his legacy to abolish the slave trade in Britain. It honours
the legacy of the relentless journey of an abolitionist and the journey to discover what
happened to Joanna following his death on the 31st March 1797.
Key stage 2 & 3 • Krik Krak Publishing

Black Scientists and Inventors Books 1,2 & 3

These books contains biographies of notable black scientists and inventors from the
U.K, America, the Caribbean and Africa. Through biographies, questions and answers, activities, timelines, glossary and bibliography to further reading.
7 - 16 • BIS Publications  £6.99

Mary Seacole

Mary Seacole became famous during the Crimea War, when she nursed wounded soldiers. She was one of the first true nurses in Victorian times.
Key stage 2 • Evans Brothers Ltd  £5.50

Lives and Times Series:

Nelson Mandela : Harriet Tubman : Martin Luther King : Mohandas Gandhi
Key stage 1 & 2  •  Heinemann  £5.99

Writing Our Past

Celebrates the achievements of people from all over the world who have lived in,
and contributed to life in Britain. Offers a mass of pratical ideas for supporting children as readers and writers.
Key stage 2 • Tide  £6.50