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Sample Activities for

Primary
Schools

'Globingo'

Aim

a quick and easy activity to encourage pupils to start thinking about their links with the wider world

Time required
20 minutes

These stimulating and flexible resources promote the skills and attitudes to value diversity in society and the environment in which we live.

Using active learning approaches to encourage teamwork and to raise self-esteem, these resources ain to help pupils understand the increasing links between their own lives and those of other people around the world.

This sample sheet has been designed to introduce you to the type of resources available from DEDU. A complete list of the resources for primary teaching is available from the DEDU website - GO!

What you need
A sheet of options similar to that below for each pupil. You could increase this one on the photocopier.

What you do
Give pupils the Globingo sheet, and ask them to go around the class and find a different person to meet each criteria, until they have filled all the boxes. You can add your own criteria if you wish. Afterwards, make a list of all the countries on the board.

A) Has travelled to
another country

 Name

 Country

  

B) Has a friend in
another country

 Name

 Country

C) Has a relative in
another country

Name

Country

  

D) Can say hello in
another language

Name

Country

E) Is wearing something
made in another country

 Name

 Country

  

F) Has a parent/relative
born in another country

 Name

 Country

G) Can name a sports star
from another country

 Name

 Country

  

H) Enjoys food from
another country

 Name

 Country

 

Links to the curriculum

The resources available from DEDU contribute to some of the curriculum requirements for the range of subjects represented in these sample activities.

For example, pupils should be taught:

- to think about the lives of people living in other places and times, and people with different cultures and customs

- to explore how the media present information

- to reflect on spiritual, moral, social and cultural issues

(from the framework for personal, social and health education and citizenship)

- to recognise how places…….are independent

- to recognise how people can improve the environment or damage it

- to recognise how and why people may seek to manage environments sustainably

(from the Geography programme of study)

from the National Curriculum
- Key Stages 1 and 2 (2000)