Resource Review

Wake up, World! CD Rom
RRP £65
Based on the highly successful book, Wake up, World!, This CD ROM provides insight into the daily life of eight children in different countries around the world. It features cross-curricular activities for young children and comes with a book of teachers notes, activity sheets and a poster. It contains many wonderful images of the children and their lives. The themes explored include homes, food, transport, climate and school. It relates to numeracy, literacy, geography and ICT.

Bridging the circle - Transition through quality Circle Time
Anne Cowling and Penny Vine
RRP £18.95
This handbook provides lesson plans to ease the transition for pupils moving from the familiar world of primary school, to the less known, less cosy world of secondary school. Comprising a series of lesson plans for years 6 and 7, it is designed to help pupils and teachers cope with what can seem like a very unsettling, even threatening time.

"It opens children's eyes to the problems that might occur and provides them with the tools to solve those problems"

"Now I have a much clearer idea of how I can enable children to make the transition with greater ease and knowledge"

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Forest and Futures Thengapalli video pack
RRP £20
This new addition to our loans collection will be welcomed by teachers who have already used the Thengapalli locality study pack for Key Stage 2 Geography. There is video footage of everyday life in and around Keshapur, which is recorded in short, easy to use sections and could also be used as a starting point for work in art, RE and Citizenship. It comes with a teacher's manual giving a grief summary of the contents and ideas for follow up activities. The video, which tells the story of the community's project to regenerate their forest, provides an uplifting message about how people can benefit from living a more sustainable lifestyle.

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Kenya Artefact pack Key Stages 1 - 2
This pack has as its focus the Action Aid book Mary, Juma and Simba the dog. It comes with lesson plans for literacy, geography and art supported by artefacts and A4 sized photographs. As well as enjoying the story, children are able to compare Bradford with a city in Kenya and to think about similarities and differences in our everyday lives.
Available for loan only

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East African Musical Instruments Artefact pack Key Stage 2
This box contains enough instruments to use with a class together with video footage of the instruments in use. Lesson plans cover literacy targets and are closely tied in with QCA design and Technology and Science recommendations for year 5.
Available for loan only.

To purchase or to reserve any of these resources, contact Sally Tottle at DEB:

Phone: 01274 410536
e-mail: sally@debradford.org.uk

We are currently developing new artefact boxes

• West African Musical Instruments Key stage 1
  
• Water Key stage 2
  
• Benin Key stage 2
  
• India Key stage 1

If you would like to help by trialling activities in your school, we would love to hear from you! Please contact Sally Tottle at DEB:

Phone: 01274 410536
e-mail: sally@debradford.org.uk

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ON THE WEB

http://www.chembakolli.com This exciting new material was collected on a recent visit to the village and will extend and update your study on Chembakoli in Southern India. The Action Aid pack Chembakoli: India village life, is available from DEB and recommended in the QCA Scheme of Work for Key Stages 1 and 2. Visit their new web site to get started.

http://www.oneworld.net A community of over 200 organisations, packed with useful and usable information - new (by issue and country), theme guides (especially useful from Aids to immigration to the world Trades organisation) analysis of issues, education resources, schools linkages and a bookshop. Has links to over 200 individual organisations. "The best non-governmental site by miles"

http://www.unicef.org/sowc98 Source of statistics on 14 basic issues, by country or region. Coloured world maps, definitions, section on Childrens' Rights. Detailed information and summaries of the State of the World's Children report.

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The resources below are currently all from the Global Schools website. Others will be available in the future.

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