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teachernet.gov.uk The site provides useful information for all sectors of the school community, including the leadership team, teachers and parents, and offers a number of excellent online and downloadable tools to help schools identify the best route to becoming more sustainable.

global dimension The Global Dimension website has a helpful guide to books, films, posters and websites with a global dimension.

Development Education Association DEA promotes education for a just and sustainable world. It has some 250 member organisations who support this commitment.

Green Flag for Development Project worked with a group of practicing teachers and educationalists, with expertise in Global Education and Education for Sustainable Development, to produce classroom materials to bring a global dimension to the Eco-schools topic areas and the Sustainable Schools doorways.

You will find activities suitable for all key stages, which you are welcome to adapt and make your own - ranging from PowerPoint presentations, comparative locality studies and games. Each section offers Teachers' Notes to guide organisation and delivery.

HCA - ASC is the national centre for delivering the skills and knowledge needed to make better places. ASC has now changed to Housing and Communities Academy

Christian aid.org Learn website from Christian aid is very useful for teachers and youth leaders with many teaching resources and assembly of the month.

FACE There ae hundreds of useful resources for all key stages including packs, posters, videos and websites produced by a wide range of organisations. These can be found by using the Farming and Countryside Education online directory under the resources section.

National Curriculum online will help you make the curriculum links between food production, healthy eating and sustainable development.

Tide~ is a teachers' network which looks out on the world. It offers CPD opportunities, courses, projects and a range of resources.

SDE - The Sustainable Development Education (SDE) Network is the Scottish network for organisations and individuals involved in sustainable development education. The Network brings together those involved in sustainable development education and the related fields of environmental, development, citizenship, global and outdoor education.

Global Study Planner Reduce, reuse, recycle - Global Study Planner does all three!

Developed with students and teachers, printed on 80% post-consumer recycled paper. GSP has ideas for practical action and supports students and teachers looking for answers to burning questions.

Banana Link The Banana link website contains downloadable background information and educational materials on banana production and fair-trade issues. The resources that can be downloaded include: Banana Globingo; the Banana Game; an activity analysing students opinions on global trade issues and an activity looking at the banana supply chain.

Kidz zone This website for children explores global issues such as fairtrade, access to water and the Millennium Development Goals. The site includes photographs, real-life stories, games and activities.

Cafod - useful website for teachers. It is having downloadable primary and secondary resources on different topics, assemblies and quizzes.

One World Week is an opportunity for people from diverse backgrounds to come together to learn about global justice, to spread that learning and to use it to take action for justice locally and globally.

This year's theme is Hungry for one world.

You can download resources and more information and ideas from their website.

Makutano Junction is a Kenyan-produced TV soap opera which attracts over seven million viewers in Kenya alone. It aims to entertain and educate English-speaking African audiences.

With funding from DFID, the producers of Makutano Junction, Mediae, have teamed up with Just Ideas, DECs and teachers across the UK to devise innovative teaching materials based around the series, which help develop the Global Dimension across the curriculum.

Classroom activities include viewing genuine extracts from the soap opera, which is a great way to engage young people with global issues; discovering similarities, challenging stereotypes and raising awareness.