Resources for class activities for use with children, especially suitable for Key Stage 2.
Primary Resources
Eco Quiz
How earth-friendly are you? The way we choose to live has effects on the world around us. This quiz is designed to help you think about the way YOU might affect the future of OUR earth. View...
Published: 01/08/2001
Creation Tables
Creation Tables are useful ways into encouraging a sense of awe and wonder, learning about the created world and developing cross-curricular work on RE. View...
Published: 06/01/2000
Alanna And The Tree
A musical activity about Alanna, who is faced with something that threatens her whole way of life. The greedy developers threaten to destroy the rainforest where she lives. She knows that she must do something to stop them... View...
Published: 05/01/2000
More About Inequality
An activity for the brave teacher, which looks at what the world religions have to say about 'fair' trade and what the great religious leaders have had to say about this situation? View...
Published: 04/01/2000
Taking Everything and Giving Nothing: Easter Island
This is not so much a game as a simulation - an attempt to show what happened to the environment of Easter Island after human beings arrived there sometime in the 5th century CE. View...
Published: 02/01/2000
Using The Resources
The activities are designed to stimulate imaginative and intellectual involvement in some of the environmental problems that confront modern society. Each activity is followed by a time for reflection, comment and debate - including discussion of the ways in which the world's religions offer perspectives on the issues that have been raised.
See more specific details of relevant areas of the Science and RE curricula.
A Flexible Resource
Teachers should be able to extend or edit the activities, structuring them to fit in with the demands and time constraints of the current National Curriculum. For example, the main activity could take one lesson and the plenary could take place at the end of the day; with a story rounding off the discussion.
The activities and readings could also be adapted for use as the basis for collective worship / assemblies, either using a show-and-tell format or as the stimulus for a short piece of drama. An example of an assembly prepared by one class for the whole school is given here.
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