Aylesbury Development Education Centre
Registered Charity No. 802815

Resources

ADEC has an extensive resource library covering all areas of the curriculum (including Citizenship, Georgraphy, PSHE, RE) and many subjects such as global and development education issues.

Below is a list of the variety of formats we stock, and a selection of the resources currently available from our library.

* books
* activity packs
* videos
* games
* photopacks
* posters
* artefacts from different countries

All items are free to members of ADEC for a loan of up to a term in length. (How to join.)

Photos Opportunities Maths - Activities for the primary classroom

OXFAM 2001 Activities and ideas for the Numeracy Hour. Contains: 20 x A4 colour photos and captions; A1 poster and captions; Booklet with Introductory activity, Counting and estimating, Adding, Measuring and comparing; Fractions; Shape and Symmetry; Section on Resources.

Your World, My World

A Wake Up, World! photo-pack for Citizenship, PSE and PSD
OXFAM 2001 Teacher’s booklet, 24 x A4 colour photocards, A1 poster map. Activities to encourage children: to feel positive about themselves, to empathise with others, to respect diversity, to participate through group work and so develop skills of co-operation, negotiation & problem solving. Info on 4 children:  Muluken - Ethiopia, Cidinha - Brazil, Sasha - Russia, Shakeel - India.

Families Pack

SAVE THE CHILDREN 1999
Activities and photographs to raise moral, social, cultural and spiritual issues in PSHE and Citizenship for KS 1& 2. Teacher’s book; Book of children’s stories for KS1 & KS2  - Jessica from UK, Ciano from Philippines, Jadranka from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Daouda from Burkina Faso tell of their life experiences.

Woven Lives

A creative approach to citizenship and sustainable development for 7-11 year olds
MUNDI 2001 Teacher’s Pack with classroom activities; An audio CD & play script; 3  A2 colour posters; Background info booklet on Guatemala. Explores issues relating to citizenship & sustainable development. Play focuses on effects of changes to land on one family over 3 generations. Draws on experiences of Maya of Guatemala. For PSHE, Literacy, Geography, English.

Links in the Chain

CHRISTIAN AID 2001 Leaflet with ideas for use with children at harvest. Focuses on a community in Nicaragua, highlights links between people around the world, with activities for 5-7 yr olds, and 8-11yr olds and collective worship presentation and colour poster. Features sesame oil production at The Juan Francisco Paz Silva Co-operative / Fair Trade issues.
 

Addressing Issues of Global Citizenship: Water - for Years 3 and 4 Numeracy.

Leaflet highlights the effects of poor access to water and the unjust and unequal distribution of the world’s most valuable resource. Contains topic information, classroom activity ideas and suggested further resources. Available from ADEC or Humanities Education Centre, English Street, London E3 4TA, tel: 020 7364 6405, fax: 020 7364 6422, email: hec@gn.apc.org

Global Express - Livestock Farming Local and Global

Images of burning cows and sheep piled high in fields have filled our TV screens. This topical edition of Global Express examines the arguments about how we produce our food, with classroom activities for 8-14 year olds.
Contact ADEC for a copy or visit the website: www.dep.org.uk/globalexpress

Carnival in the Caribbean

A resource pack for schools and community groups about the history of carnival in the Caribbean and subsequent developments in the UK. With colour illustrations, activity suggestions across the curriculum including literacy hour, curriculum maps for early learning goals and the national curriculum, list of carnival artists willing to work in schools. On loan from ADEC.

No Nonsense Guides by New Internationalist Publications Ltd:

‘Pungent, pithy, probing political analysis’
· the No-Nonsense Guide to CLIMATE CHANGE
· the No-Nonsense Guide to GLOBALIZATION
· the No-Nonsense Guide to FAIR TRADE
Available on loan from ADEC
 

Global Citizenship Strategy for Schools

A guidance booklet for citizenship education at Key Stages 3 and 4 is being produced by the Development Education Association in partnership with the Commonwealth Institute, Central Bureau, the Council for Environmental Education, Oxfam and the Council for Education in World Citizenship. Contact ADEC for details.

Education Pack

Available from The Guide Association with 75 different activity ideas related to countries ‘On the Line’. Can be downloaded for free from the website: www.guides.org.uk. Available throughout 2001.

World Music Network

Has over 60 Rough Guide albums available covering music from almost every corner of the globe. Contact: World Music Network, 6 Abbeville Mews, 88 Clapham Park Road,
London SW4 7BX. Tel: 020 7498 5252, email:post@worldmusic.net, or www.worldmusic.net.
 

Resources for Christian Aid Week:

 What a difference! Introduces primary-aged children to Herbert in Uganda. The poster, story, photos, activity ideas and the worship piece help the children find out how debt relief has made a difference to his life. The children are encouraged to think about the differences they can make to others’ lives.
Together we can make a difference - for 11-14 year olds. Looks at the issues of debt and debt relief - which is making a huge difference to the lives of boys in the Arapai Youth Group, Uganda. Leaflet contains key background information and numerous ideas for teaching, and an assembly. A separate sheet is aimed directly at pupils, to enable them to investigate how the Arapai boys are taking responsibility for their lives.

Global Gang
Christian Aid’s new website for children www.globalgang.org.uk is the online version of the popular children’s newspaper, Global Gang. Both the paper and web site now have a supplement, Planet Teacher, with everything teachers need to bring global citizenship into the classroom, through cross-curricular lesson plans and activities. For a copy, please phone 020 7523 2248 or log onto the website in ADEC's links page.

Local Citizen: Global Citizen

Resource pack from Christian Aid to help the teaching of Citizenship across the curriculum to 8-12 year olds. Helps them explore the concepts of growth and development, interdependence and relationships. Sections on: ‘Growing Up’, ‘Word House’, ‘Global Cake’.  ADEC user comment: "Basically a re-text of old material - nothing new. Disappointing."
Available on loan from ADEC or price £12.99  from Christian Aid, Supporter Relations Team, Christian Aid, PO Box 100, London. SE1 7RT
 

Matching Oxfam’s Resources with your PSE and Citizenship Curriculum

This leaflet shows how Oxfam’s Education Resources can help deliver the Citizenship and PSHE curriculum in primary and secondary schools.
Available free from ADEC, along with Oxfam’s Resources Catalogue, or from Oxfam: tel: 01865 313600, email: oxfam@oxfam.org.uk
 

Community Forest Management: A Casebook from India

This easy-to-read book follows the development of the forest-protection movement ‘Friends of Trees and Living Beings’ as it grew from local protests in the 1970s into a network of organisations with respected expertise and widespread influence. Includes interviews with villagers, NGO staff, activists and forestry officials. This book will be interesting and useful to anyone using the Thengapalli pack.
Available on loan from ADEC or price £7.95 from Oxfam Publishing, 274 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 7DZ.

The Elemental Suitcase - Fire, Water, Earth and Air

Young person’s guide to sustainability. The sturdy suitcase contains: Storybook with characters who give clues to finding out about sustainability issues; Posters of main characters; Elemental passports and stickers; Map scrolls for the elements, fire, water, earth and air.
Available on loan from ADEC

Bananas Unpeeled  - new Video from Banana Link

Film investigates the social and environmental issues facing banana plantation workers and farmers in Latin America and the Caribbean. With teaching notes. For Business Studies, Geography and Art at KS4.
Available on loan from ADEC

We, the World

Survival's new activity pack for 8 to 12 year olds is for use with primary and secondary pupils of differing abilities and has been specifically designed to support curriculum requirements for Citizenship and Literacy in England and Wales; Environmental Studies in Scotland; and Education for Mutual Understanding in Northern Ireland. It includes extensive background information for the teacher on the lives of the Yanomami, Ba-aka and Chukchee peoples and the three children who are central to the pack.

Pa Pa Paa

Free primary and secondary teaching packs about Fair Trade and CHOCOLATE! For Citizenship, PSHE, Geography and RE at Key Stage 2 or Key Stage 3.
Pa Pa Paa unwraps all the secrets behind chocolate and its journey to our shop shelves. Pa Pa Paa means, literally, the best of the best. It is the trademark of the fairly traded cocoa growers in Ghana. They have the fairest practices and produce the best beans to give us the best chocolate.
Order the free primary or secondary pack from: Education Direct, Pa Pa Paa Teaching Packs, PO Box 105, Rochester, ME2 4BE.

Dealing with Disasters

Oxfam 2000
Teaching about disasters and development for ages 11 to 16? Then this book helps students look behind the headlines:
Why do disasters happen? Can they be prevented? What can be done to help?
Could it happen here?
Dealing with Disasters includes:
3 curriculum links for Geography, Citizenship, PSHE, English, and RE
3 clear background information on  floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, & famine which will support non-specialist teachers
3 high-quality black and white photographs from Oxfam’s extensive picture library which provide a unique insight into the lives of affected communities
3 new case study material, focusing particularly on Bangladesh
3 classroom activities with photocopiable worksheets for students
Available on loan from ADEC or from Oxfam price £13 (Tel:  01865 313478).

Cambodia - The background, the issues, the people

Oxfam Country Profile 2000
Book, with personal testimonies from six Cambodian families whose lives have been shaped by the past 30 years of conflict and turmoil, examines the tensions within a nation now undergoing great changes as it prepares to claim its place in the advanced economies of South East Asia. Case studies describe campaigns to deal with landmines and AIDS-related illness, and initiatives to rebuild trust and break with the nation’s violent past.
Available on loan from ADEC or from Oxfam price £6.95 (01865 313744)

Taking Stock - Livestock and Development

VETAID 2000
Video filmed in Tanzania, Mozambique and the Scottish Borders. Explores the importance of livestock in development, draws parallels between challenges facing live-stock keepers in the North and South and encourages reflection about the roles that individuals, organisations and governments play in development.
Suitable for use with youth and community groups as well as late secondary, eg key stage 4 Citizenship .
Available on loan from ADEC or from VETAID price £5, tel: 0131 445 6241

Seeds for Life

Exploring people’s values and views about the issues of biodiversity and genetic engineering
Christian Aid 2000
Video and Teaching Pack for use with 11-14 year olds.
Focuses on a traditional farming community in rural India. Combines the concepts of biodiversity and responsibility for the environment with the issues surrounding genetic engineering. Investigates dilemmas facing small-scale farmers and considers how different beliefs and values may affect choices.  For Key Stage 3 RE, Citizenship and PSHE.
Available on loan from ADEC or from Christian Aid, PO Box 100, SE1 7RT,  price £ 12.99.  ADEC user comment: "A bit disappointing - little on traditional farming methods, which is what would be useful... Video was useful."
 

The following resources link to ADEC's current projects on Agenda 21 and Waste Minimisation. They are available for members to borrow.  (This is only a selection - we have many more!)
 

General resources on Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development:

'Agenda 21 in Special Schools' (ADEC)
‘Rescue Mission Planet Earth - A Children’s Edition of Agenda 21’
‘The D.I.Y. Earth Summit Pack’
‘Earth Tales - Anthology and Guide for English Teachers’ (Channel 4 & WWF)
Videos: ‘Green Animation - Cartoons to Change the World’ (WWF)
‘Ecotoons’ (WWF).  ADEC user comment: "Useful - both very good for putting across ‘eco - information’ in a fun way.Will probably get our own copy!"
‘The Global Environment’.  ADEC user comment: "Didn’t use, but I think it is very good... would like my own copy!"
‘Making One World'
Simulation Games and Role-plays: ‘Global Warning’ (Oxfam)
‘Decisions About Sustainable Development’         ‘African Village’

Case-studies of Agenda 21 themes from around the world:

‘Learning For Life - Agriculture and Development in Equatorial Uganda’
‘Picking Up The Threads - Sustainable Development on the Altiplano, Bolivia’
‘Credit to the Poor - Sustainable Development in the Andes’
(each of the above resources from ActionAid contains 10 A4 ph