Practical Action are a development charity who are offering lots of free resources for schools, linked to their work in helping some of the world’s poorest people to transform their lives for the better.
www.practicalaction.org.uk/education
The Education area of their site has a wide range of content for teachers and pupils, including:
- Videos showing how designers make their sustainable products (useful for DT).
- A sustainability handbook for teachers of Design and Technology.
- Free posters, homework activities, wordsearches, classroom activities, videos and songs linked to renewable energy.
- A selection of experiments, demonstrations and activities which can be used to support work linked to climate change.
- Cross-curricular videos and lesson activities.
