Millenium Development Goals

A week of activities about the World Cup, world trade, and football, for KS-2.

Bring on the World! explores the 2006 World Cup, from the countries taking part in the competition to the trade issues behind the sporting glamour.

Using the World Cup as a starting point, pupils focus on three themes throughout the week: competition, teamwork and thinking skills. They also have the opportunity to develop their research skills while studying some of the countries involved in the World Cup finals.

You can pick and choose from the activities to create a tailored scheme of work around global football themes. Lessons are suitable for Geography, English Speaking and Listening, ICT, Maths, Citizenship, Art, Design and Technology, and PE.

Explore the Millennium Development Goals through posters and activities. For use with KS2-3.

Updated for 2010, this resource uses posters and activities to introduce children to the Millennium Development Goals. Each poster covers a theme (and a Goal), with a vibrant image for display and discussion. Each poster also includes background information, case studies, and lesson plans.

Themes such as reducing poverty, educating children, fighting disease, and cleaning up the environment are all covered. The countries profiled by each poster include: Peru, Mali, Liberia, Burkina Faso, Nepal, Thailand, Haiti plus a final case study on the G8.

It delivers elements of Literacy, Citizenship, PSHE, PSE, and develops thinking skills, empathy, and communication skills, as well as allowing pupils to practice problem solving, and working with others.

From Poverty to Prosperity (P2P) is a new development awareness project working in three EU countries plus Ghana. It seeks to address three challenges. Firstly, current development awareness for young people is not significantly changing behaviours and attitudes to the extent necessary to mobilise support for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG's). Secondly, much development education is based on the needs of people in developing countries and fails to recognise the needs of young people in Europe. Thirdly, the quality of development education amongst the new member states is very weak, with little formal support for schools and teachers in the way of training, resources and programmes.

The P2P project has been designed to achieve real change by promoting ways to achieve genuine active citizenship within and outside the classroom, in school life and into the wider community. The Challenge Packs and website will present opportunities for teachers and pupils to share examples of creative and sustainable solutions that have been formulated in the UK, Bulgaria, Hungary and Ghana.

A great source of advice for teaching about the MDGs at all levels, but particularly primary, based on a project run by Cheshire Development Education Centre. The suggested activities could fit into many different subject lessons, but particularly Citizenship, PSHE, RE and English, KS1-3. Covering issues such as why going to school is so important, poverty, environmental sustainability and women’s health, the project adopted teaching methods such as Philosophy for Children (P4C) and Participatory Evaluation. An introduction covers the MDGs and why we should teach about them, as well as outlining the teaching methodologies used. The toolkit then goes through each MDG in turn, demonstrating to teachers some of the ideas and techniques that have been used successfully by schools in Cheshire, and advising on useful resources.

Cheshire Development Education Centre, KS1-3