Many of these sites have FREE downloadable resources
National
• Fairtrade Foundation020 7405 5942 (London) www.fairtrade.org.uk
All you need to know about Fairtrade, plus teaching resources, lesson and assembly ideas, photos of farmers, case studies of producers, video, board game, powerpoints.
• Action Aid
www.actionaid.org.uk
Excellent resources and teacher packs especially the Chembakolli - Life and Change in an Indian Village - tea party, videos, posters.
• BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web,
we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect."
Whatever we do to the web,
we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect."
(Chief Seattle, 1855)
• CAFOD
Romero Close, London, SW9 9TY 020 7733 7900
Primary Schools
Secondary Schools
Fairtrade resources, lesson & assembly resources, whiteboard activity, powerpoint presentation. Also great information about Trade Justice, Make Poverty History- the wider global issues. Teacher packs, videos games, petitions, campaign materials, writing to MPs/companies.
• Christian Aid
www.christianaid.org.uk/learn/index.htm
Also www.globalgang.org/planetteacher/trade
Great teaching resources for the wider global issues. Lesson plans, activity sheets, childrens pages with online game. Similar to the Cafod website.
• Comic Relief
5th Floor, 89 Albert Embankment, London, SE1 7TP 020 7850 5555
www.comicrelief.com/teach-and-learn/
Database of images, videos, audio, interactive whiteboard, documents. Comic Relief's Fairtrade Chocolate, Dubble: www.dubble.co.uk (Great fun for children - log on and become a double agent! Its all about Fairtrade chocolate.) Database of images, videos, audio, interactive whiteboard, documents.
• The Co-operative Group
0800 068 6727 Co-operative FairTrade Schools Pack
Great for primary, downloadable pack Make your school Fairtrade Friendly, cd, images, resources, lesson plans.
• North Ceredigion FairTrade Schools Project
www.fairtradeschools.org
Site of a Welsh Primary Schools FairTrade project. Includes details of resources and activities for children.
• Global Dimension
www.globaldimension.org.uk
Wide range of classroom resources on Fairtrade and related themes for all age groups.
• International Cocoa Organisation
www.icco.org
Trade Section as part of A-Z guide.
• Labour Behind the Label
www.labourbehindthelabel.org
Great website especially for secondary. Looks at working conditions of clothes makers for our fashion industry. Campaign postcards for High Street shops, posters of trainers etc.
• Make Poverty History
www.makepovertyhistory.org
Trade justice campaign materials.
• Oxfam
01202 715 933 www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/kidsweb/ Online resources, curriculum ideas, books, videos, posters and games.
• PAPAPAA
www.papapaa.org
Resources for Fairtrade and cocoa in Key Stages 2 and 3, with links across the curriculum, particularly in Citizenship, Geography and PSHE. There are downloadable lesson plans, resources and interactive activities, and a companion DVD and a photo pack you can order. The DVD was filmed in Ghana and the UK, and is presented by CBBC personality and paralympic basketball player Ade Adepitan.
• People and planet
www.peopleandplanet.org/tradejustice/
Trade Justice campaign for 6th form students.
• SCIAF
www.sciafyouth.org.uk/youth/teachers
Free pack containing posters, DVD-ROM, lesson plans, assemblies. Downloadable poetry book. Based around Millennium Development Goals.
• Send My Friend
www.sendmyfriend.org
The website contains lesson plans to help you explore why many children are missing out on an education and steps for making buddies.
• Trade Justice Movement
www.tradejusticemovement.org
• Traidcraft
Kingsway, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, NE11 0NE 0191 491 0591 www.traidcraft.co.uk
Assemblies, lesson plans, images, primary reference materials, games, curriculum links. www.traidcraft.co.uk/get_involved/young_people/schools/school_resources.htm
• Wateraid
www.wateraid.org/uk/learn_zone/
Videos, information packs, teaching aids, games.
Local Contacts
• Wirral LA21 Network
Manor Trust Buildings, Gorsey Lane, Wallasey
Tel: 0151 639 2121
Email: info@la21.net
www.la21.net
• Oxton Community Green Shop
Order Fairtrade food products sale or return.
• Cheshire Development Education Centre, Chester
Able to look at, lend, or order Fairtrade, environmental, faith and global education resources. Tel: 01244 708 7328.
www.cheshiredec.org
• Liverpool Development and Global Education Centre,
The Alima Centre 35 Sefton St, Liverpool L8 5SL Tel: 0151 708 6515
Able to look at, lend, or order Fairtrade, environmental, faith and global education resources.
email ams@liverpoolworldcentre.org
• Christian Books Centre
Serpentine Road Family Church, Liscard Rd, Wallasey Tel: 0151 630 5114
Order Fairtrade food products sale or return.
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