Grow it Global resources

To help make your school’s involvement in Grow it Global a real success, we have put together a number of resources that relate to the four main learning themes of:

Food production and security
Sustainable development
Climate change
Similarities and differences

Project resources

There are several files that you might find useful in introducing the project to your school, as well as some other administrative files that we will add over time. Here are some key documents, others can be found at the base of the page.

Introductory document - useful as an introduction to the project for staff, with a timeline sheet to print out.

Core learning document - to guide you through the timeframe and main themes of the project and to give you some ideas for approaching these with your classes.

Farm profiles:

Learning resources

For a great introduction to all the themes, look around our kid's website Cowforce.com with your pupils – the perfect area for this is ‘Beeko’s Road Trip’, as it was created with Grow it Global in mind. You can also use the 4 Themes activity (adapted from the teacher training), with your pupils as a discussion starter.

There are also all sorts of activities on our teacher's website Cowfiles.com - a good place to start is the ‘tag’ page. Here you will find lessons plans and resources linked to food, Uganda, Lesotho, and comparing lives etc. You will also find images from Africa of all sorts of things from schools to food and gardens in the gallery.

African Gardens resources

We have plenty of resources and information to help you create a fantastic African Garden at your school. Add learning to the whole experience with useful files such as our garden time planner, which should help you get organised. Plus, you can use these instruction sheets to show you how to make elements of your garden - inlcuding a new sheet about Energy-saving Stoves.

Fundraising ideas

To tie all your Grow it Global learning together in one great art project, we recommend you create an African Farmyard display in your school. We can provide you with a poster and downloadable illustrations of different items found on an East African farm along with plenty of fundraising ideas.

Another way of tying in learning with fundraising is to run a Read to Feed scheme with children involved in the project. By reading books about Africa and by African authors, your pupils can get sponsored to help African farmers like those they will meet on the farm visit.

A quick idea would be to hold a 'Mufti' day. Pupils can join in with African farmers by wearing wellies for a 'Wellie-Wednesday', paying £1 to Send a Cow. Or, run a ‘Poosday-Tuesday’, when pupils wear anything brown to raise money so that more African families can have Magic Muck training. We also have lots more fun ideas that you can run in your school.

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