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Global Thinking recommends…

FIVE KEY RESOURCES:


How do we know it's working? A toolkit for measuring attitudinal change in global citizenship from early years to KS5.
Full of practical, challenging, engaging ideas, activities and resources to help teachers with Global citizenship.

Growing Up Global. Early Years Global Education handbook.
Demonstrates how Global learning can be a thread running through education right from the start. Over 70 activities, also suitable for KS1.

Global Learning in primary schools.

"This is a fantastic resource. the pages are colourful, well designed and easy to read" - TES Feb 2009. Great practical ideas to meet the educational needs of children within a changing global context.

Enabling Global learning through the KS3 curriculum

Addressing the needs of the new secondary curriculum, this presents a whole school process enabling teachers to address the Global Dimension through individual subjects and cross-curricular approaches.

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

A FREE resource from Oxfam-Good visual stimulus and loads of activities.

Useful free downloadable planning guidance for the Global Dimension and Sustainable Development:


Developing the Global Dimension in the school curriculum.
DfES guidance

The Global Dimension in Action.

A curriculum planning guide for schools. QCA

Sustainable Development in Action.
A curriculum planning guide for schools. QCA

Cross-curriculum dimensions. A planning guide for schools.
QCA National Curriculum

Favourite websites…


Global Dimension
This website is a guide to books, films, posters and web resources which support global, intercultural and environmental understanding for all age groups and subjects.

Oxfam Education
Oxfam Education offers a huge range of ideas, resources and support for developing the global dimension in the classroom and the whole school.

Green Flag
This site has excellent activities available for free. They are designed to bring the Global Dimension into the Sustainable Schools Doorways and the Eco-schools topics. they have been developed by and for teachers for all key stages.

 

 
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