GREEN FLAG RESOURCES

The resources have been developed for use by a range of ages and abilities of pupils but please feel free to adapt them to suit your needs. Each lesson or 'set' of resources includes a 'Teachers' food for thought' section. This provides some background information for you, as a teacher starting to deliver activities with a global dimension.

The 'Teachers' food for thought' should provide you with a context to place the work in, ideas on how to organise the activities, places to do further background reading about issues you are unfamiliar with and ideas to share and discuss with your pupils to ensure they get the most out of the activities.

We would welcome your feedback on any of the resources.

Name of the activity or resource	Mapping Biodiversity Local to Global
Resource Summary	The aim of this activity is to expand the idea of biodiversity in the immediate area of your school and compare any issues and opportunities for learning about biodiversity with a global perspective. By carrying out survey work on an area and exchanging information with a school in another part of the world, pupils can examine and compare similarities and differences, learn to value biodiversity, understand some of the threats and pressures on different environments and identify the interdependent nature and links between our actions here and biodiversity around the world.
Suitable for	Key Stage 2 and 3 (Key Stage 1 with simplification and adaptation, Key Stage 4, if complex surveying and mapping introduced)
Download resource	Mapping Biodiversity Local to Global Teachers' plan and food for thought Mapping Biodiversity Local to Global Teachers plan and food.zip Download Winzip

Name of the activity or resource	Mini-beasts maxi power
Resource Summary	This activity takes a common activity of a mini-beast safari, using it to raise awareness of pupil's own local environment and the mini-beasts found within it and extends this to link to mini-beasts around the world and their positive and negative roles - from pollinators, natural pest controllers, food sources and income generation, to spreading diseases like malaria, river blindness and as crop pests.
Suitable for	Key Stage 1 and 2
Download resource	Mini-beasts maxi power teachers' plan and food for thought.doc Mini-beast record sheet.doc Mini-beast mobiles.doc Mini Beasts.zip Download Winzip

Name of the activity or resource	Rainforests Global Dimensions
Resource Summary	This activity is designed to be a complex thinking tool and opportunity for research and reporting. It is designed to be an activity which stretches and challenges pupil understanding of a specific habitat, namely the Brazilian Rainforest, and provides a tool to gather and synthesise different view points, opinions and issues and shows how they are interconnected. It looks at all of the Global Dimension key concepts in relation to one particular environment - a technique which could be transferred to apply to other environments and biomes.
Suitable for	Key Stage 4 - 14-19 curriculum
Download resource	Rainforest global dimensions Teachers' plan and food for thought.doc Rainforest and global dimensions prompt sheet.doc Rainforests and global dimensions.zip Download Winzip