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Teaching Resources
In this section you will find a variety of support resources: Activities and worksheets to accompany the films, ideas for classroom extension and homework activities, charity background document, soil and water facts, glossary, useful websites and copyright information.
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The world is an apple — lesson opener
It can be difficult to comprehend the relatively small area of land on which humans rely and to realise how important it is to preserve what we have left. All you need is an apple and a knife and you can visually demonstrate just how little topsoil there is on the earth - great for a lesson opener!
Use to introduce the concept of habitable space, carrying capacity, and sustainability. |
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How the savanna can get destroyed
Learn more about the problems facing farmers in the savanna with a diagram that visually tracks how the savanna has come under pressure and questions that encourage students to think about how farmers can adapt, manage and protect their ecosystem.
Extracts from Geog.2 Geography for Key Stage 3 (pupil’s book) by Rosemarie Gallagher and Richard Parish (2e, OUP, 2005), copyright © Rosemarie Gallagher, Richard Parish 2005, reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press. |
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The Machakos miracle – diagram and questions
Visual summary of how farmers have learned to live sustainably in semi-arid Machakos and of the kind of work Excellent Development supports in the wider area. Questions help students explore how farmland in the savanna has been, and still is, being rescued from ruin.
Extracts from Geog.2 Geography for Key Stage 3 (pupil’s book) by Rosemarie Gallagher and Richard Parish (2e, OUP, 2005), copyright © Rosemarie Gallagher, Richard Parish 2005, reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press. |
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PowerPoint slides from Sustainable Farming Film
Powerpoint document containing diagrammatic models from the film. Can be printed as up to 9 to a page or individually as the basis for an exercise. The accompanying film script can be seen by going to view/notes pages. |
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PowerPoint slides from Sustainable Development Film
Powerpoint document containing diagrammatic models from the film. Can be printed as up to 9 to a page or individually as the basis for an exercise. The accompanying film script can be seen by going to view/notes pages. |
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Development Compass Rose — Instructions & Blank Template
Use the compass rose to encourage students to ask a range of questions about the issues in the films, photographs, background document or Excellent Development website.
Courtesy of www.tidegloballearning.net |
Instructions
Template
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Worksheets
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Soil & water conservation
Fill in the missing statistics while watching the case study films and calculate how many 1000s of years it takes to replace the soil lost by erosion.
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Sustainable Farming
Free text boxes allow students to capture essential information while watching the film or as a follow-up activity with pictures that can be annotated. |
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Sustainable Development
Free text boxes allow students to capture essential information while watching the film or as a follow-up activity with pictures that can be annotated. |
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When you don’t have water piped home
Calculate the average amount of time farmers spend collecting water during the busy planting and harvesting season and how much time is saved by the dam. Use the writing frame to consider the impact this has on lives and livelihoods. |
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Appropriate Development
Use the list of elements that can make development sustainable to generate discussion. Tick the ones that you think Excellent Development fulfils, giving us a score out of ten. You can do the same for a larger/ top down development project and compare the score. |
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Further Support Materials
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Suggested Extension Activities |
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Background to Excellent Development & Sand Dams
This document has some information about the charity, the role of staff in the UK & Kenya, the workings of sand dams, including some diagrams that illustrate the soil & water conservation model the Kamba area and culture, and a look at how the role of women and youth migration are affected by the work. |
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Soil and water factsheet |
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Glossary |
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Useful Websites |
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Copyright and acknowledgments |
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Go to the scripts page to download the short film scripts
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