New resources for Key Stage 2, designed as a topic linking science, geography and citizenship. The activities encourage children to think about how the environment affects all our lives, and introduces climate change and sustainability. Activity cards for Recycling in the UK, Lifecycles and Recycle for Africa, featuring Alupro’s Fruit Trees for Malawi programme. Full teacher’s notes, suggested lesson plan and curriculum links.

Make a video about what helping the environment means to YOUR school, and you could WIN the opportunity to show it to schools in rural Malawi. A fantastic opportunity for cultural exchange with children in Africa - if you win, you will also be asked to film in Malawi to make a video to show in UK schools. Videos/DVDs to be submitted by August 25, 2008. The teacher visit to Malawi will take place around October 27, 2008. (Please note that these dates have changed from earlier plans).

Email Alupro for your:

FREE tree growing kit , with all you need to grow silver birch trees in the classroom

Pack also contains:

Fruit Trees for Malawi poster

Three activity cards - black and white line drawings which can be photocopied for children to colour, plus teacher’s notes and curriculum links.

• Recycling in the UK: Encourages children to find out what they can recycle at home, and what the recycled materials are then used for
• Lifecycles : Shows how recycling things made from natural resources links with cycles in nature, with examples of different lifecycles
• Recycle for Africa : Introduces children to how growing fruit trees in Malawi helps nutrition, tackles deforestation, and forms the basis for new small businesses to boost the rural economy. The more we all recycle, the more fruit trees will be grown.

Full details of the fantastic video competition:

• First prize, Trip to Malawi
• 5 additional prizes of £100 for schools to improve their own environments
• Plus, a fruit tree for every school that enters

Email Alupro to request the full tree growing kit and contents (one per school): info@alupro.org.uk

OR download the materials here:

Recycling in the UK

Lifecycles

Recycle for Africa

Video/DVD competition details and entry form