OTHER RESOURCES AND USEFUL LINKS

There are a vast array of teaching resources out there for tackling issues on energy use, food miles, climate change and energy efficiency, many with a global dimension, in terms of global climate change or specific projects in other countries. We found the resources and websites below useful:

Shout About Climate Change

A 'Friends of the Earth' pack for Key Stage 3 can be downloaded for free or ordered from Friends of the Earth. Many activities suitable for Key Stage 2 pupils too, with minimal adaptation.

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/guides/shout_about_climate_change1.pdf

Oxfam's 'Climate Chaos'

A week of activities about climate change for ages 9 - 11

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/climate_chaos/

WWF Learning

Supporting Learning for Sustainability:

A range of activities with a Climate Change theme for 7-16 year olds

http://www.wwflearning.org.uk/wwflearning-home/teachingandlearning/activities-and-ideas/activit y-themes,873,AR.html

Your Climate Your Life

Great website with a huge range of activities, from introducing climate change to food miles, travel and transport, waste, recycling and resource use. Also has some great 'global' themed activities.

http://www.yourclimateyourlife.org.uk/index.html

The Journey of a Fish

This activity provides a worksheet giving the 'story' of a mackerel being caught and processed. It also provides a map, so pupils can use the map scale and story to calculate how far the mackerel travels before it reaches your plate. An online, interactive' mackerel (at http://www.yourclimateyourlife.org.uk/9_buying_thought.html also introduces some of the more complex issues of how our food impacts on the environment, but in a simple way - such as how the workers travel to work, the packaging of the products, disposal of the packaging and waste, etc. This activity could be used in conjunction with www.mapcrow.info, which is an online distance calculator, if pupils did not want to use map scales (this site could also be used for calculating distances of the contents of the school canteen, tuck shop or products from home).

http://www.yourclimateyourlife.org.uk/docs/fish_journey.doc

Atmosphere, Climate and Environment

A basic introduction to climate change with some useful diagrams.

http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/kids/globalwarming.html

Climate Choices, Children's Voices

Great range of climate change teaching activities and resources, some with a 'global' theme, look at the 'activities' pages or go direct to the activities below:

http://www.climatechoices.org.uk/pages/cchange0.htm

Food Stories Securing Food Supplies

Case studies and presentations looking at securing food supplies in an uncertain environment. Includes 'Floating gardens in Bangladesh' and the pressures of flooding from climate change.

http://www.climatechoices.org.uk/pages/case3.htm

Where does your food come from?

A geographical-based lesson plan with two worksheets from 'Climate Choices', which gets pupils to look at different food products and plot onto a world map where they come from.

http://www.climatechoices.org.uk/docs/food_survey.pdf.

Food stories from Kenya

Video clips and resources about meals and food in Kenya and downloadable question sheets are available at:

http://www.climatechoices.org.uk/pages/food2.htm

Food from source to sale

A presentation from Practical Action which goes through the principles of food miles, packaging, 'grow your own', etc in a simple way, with ideas for your own actions and links to other useful websites.

http://www.climatechoices.org.uk/present/source_sale.ppt

Schools' Global Footprint Calculator

The Schools' Global Footprint resource has been developed in collaboration with the WWF to help you to understand the environmental effect you and your school have on the planet and how to reduce this impact.

http://www.LTScotland.org.uk/sustainabledevelopment/schoolsglobalfootprint

Tomorrow's Climate, Today's Challenge

A website with information and advice about climate change and how to communicate for change and then take action. Would make an interesting literacy or media project.

http://www.climatechallenge.gov.uk/

Tiki the Penguin

Site for young children about climate change. Has the option to translate into French, German, Portuguese, Italian, etc so could be used as a language resource.

http://tiki.oneworld.net/global_warming/climate_home.html

Eco-schools

The Eco-schools website with information and resources about the key areas. Any work on climate change and energy can be integrated into the overall scheme.

http://www.eco-schools.org.uk/

Sustainable Schools

The DCSF framework for schools. Lessons, actions and awareness about climate change, tackles aspects of the 'energy and water' doorway but can also link into the 'inclusion and participation', 'local well-being' and 'global dimension' doorways as well.

http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/sustainableschools/index.cfm

Catlin Arctic Survey team

The team are undertaking an expedition during 2009 to do systematic monitoring through ice cores, etc of the decreasing thickness of arctic ice as a result of climate change and global warming. Their education programme is directed at schools - to with lots of new material on global warming/geo-physical evidence of climate change.

http://www.catlinarcticsurvey.com