world class citizens your presenter is iain baird b’ed(hons), ba, ma(eps) south america through...
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World Class Citizens
Your presenter is Iain Baird B’Ed(Hons), BA, MA(EPS)
www.worldclasscitizens.org
South America through Rain Forests
Who is your presenter?
Iain Baird taught as a secondary Science for 35 years
Iain has been involved with Global Education for 20 years
Iain left teaching in 2012 in order to establish World Class Citizens Ltd in order to support global learning in schools.
Iain provides primary and secondary classroom activities days on global education topics, particularly Africa. He has travelled to Kenya many times and leads a six school student exchange project called Tujuane.
Iain is a British Council Professional Ambassador
Aims of this presentation?
1.How can a study of the Amazon rainforest help to cover some of the requirements of the new KS2 Geography National Curriculum PoS.
2.Which countries in North and South America are part of the British Council Connecting Classrooms Programme?
3.Where can you obtain resources to support classroom activities on rainforests?
4.How can a carry out a simple rainforest science activity in the classroom?
Geography KS2 PoS
‘Pupils should extend their knowledge and understanding beyond the local area and the UK to include Europe, North and South America’.‘Pupils should be taught to:Understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a region or area of the UK, a region in a European country, and a region or area within North and South America.’
KS2 PoS Geography NC for Sept 2014
Rainforests of the World
Rainforests are found on the Equator
Rainforests are found on the Equatorwithin the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn
South America
Countries of South America
Countries of South America
The Amazon River Basin
The Amazon River Basin
Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guyana, Suriname, Venzuela
Linking with a South American school
Register your school through the British Council Schools-Online website: http://schoolsonline.britishcouncil.org
You can then search for South American Schools that are also seeking international partners.
The Connecting Classrooms Grant Programme can provide a grant of £3000 for a year. Visit the appropriate pages of the Schools-Online
S. America countries supported by Connecting Classrooms funding
Brazil
S. America countries supported by Connecting Classrooms funding
BrazilArgentina
S. America countries supported by Connecting Classrooms funding
BrazilArgentinaColombia
S. America countries supported by Connecting Classrooms funding
BrazilArgentinaColombiaMexico
S. America countries supported by Connecting Classrooms funding
BrazilArgentinaColombiaMexicoJamaica
S. America countries supported by Connecting Classrooms funding
BrazilArgentinaColombiaMexicoJamaicaTrinidad & Tobago
Indigenous Civilizations of Central and South
America
Peoples of South America
Effects of Colonisation
Physical Geography
Iguazu Falls between Argentina and Brazil
The Andes Mountainsformed by two continental plates moving in opposite directions
South America and Chocolate
Science KS2 AT
They recognise that there is a great variety of living things and understand the importance of classification. They explain that different organisms are found in different habitats because of differences in environmental factors [for example, the availability of light or water].
Life and Living Things
the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle
Materials and their Properties
The structure of a rainforest
Identify Rainforest Structure
Structure of a Rainforest
Rainforest Models
Rainforests and the Water Cycle
Precipitation (Rain)
Condensation
Evaporation
Transpiration
Rainforests and the Water Cycle
Transpiration from rainforest trees BBC CONGO Clip
Rainforests – The Lungs of the Planet
Rainforests and Climate Change
Deforestation leads to:• Reduction of emission of oxygen• Reduction of absorption of carbon
dioxide• Increase of carbon dioxide in
atmosphere• Increase in global temperatures• Melting ice caps and glaciers• Rising sea levels – flooding of
coastal areas• More violent storms and
hurricanes
Climate Change
Rainforests and Art
Henri Roussos
Practical demonstration of how rain forms over rainforest
Thank you
If you require any support for Global
Learning or International Linking
please contact me via my website
www.worldclasscitizens.co.uk
or e-mail
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