Introduction /Supplementary Resources /Credits

Welcome to the 10th edition of the Global Eye Primary website. Global Eye Primary was launched in September 2000 to complement the Global Eye magazine and website for secondary schools. The nine previous editions of Global Eye Primary are still on-line in the 'Back Issue Archive' section of the website.

The aim of Global Eye Primary is to provide interesting, well-illustrated and interactive material about global issues to tie in with UK primary curriculum requirements.

Three characters, Harry, Cecile and Jack (a parrot) guide pupils around the website, answering their questions and challenging them to think about a variety of global issues.

Each section of the website uses interactive features, key questions and photos to break down the issues covered into manageable chunks. The sections of Global Eye Primary are:

	Eye on		specific case study of a country (or region) including maps, diagrams, tables, a variety of photographs and a data file.
	Focus on		looks at a development issue and uses case studies to show how it affects people in different places.
	On Camera		images from locations around the world with accompanying questions and activities for pupils.
	Competitions		quizzes and prize-winning competitions for individual pupils and group projects.

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Click here to see details of how the Global Eye Primary Autumn 2004 web pages can be applied to different subject criteria in the primary curriculum. There are also references to the National Curriculum targets in England & Wales.

Please let us know what you think of Global Eye Primary and what you would like to see featured in future editions. We need your input to help the site develop and grow. Contact the editor, [email protected]

SUPPLEMENTARY RESOURCES

Eye On The Caribbean

"Jamaica: Out of Many - One People" (Birmingham DEC 2000)
A 36 page teachers' booklet and a set of four A2 posters with a range of images. Aimed at KS2, the pack enables children to explore Jamaica as a place and its links with the UK, Jamaican identity and some issues facing Jamaica today, including language. Available from TIDE centre, Birmingham (email [email protected] or tel 0121 202 3290). £10.00 + £1.00 VAT.

"Geography Junction: Jamaica" (Channel 4 Learning 2002).
A video containing five 15 minute programmes presented by Jamaican children to show different aspects of the country. The programmes cover life in Kingston and Port Antonio, coral reefs, rainforests, hurricanes, bauxite mining, fruit and coffee. The supplementary resource book encourages children to make comparisons between Jamaica and their own locality through a variety of learning activities. Available from Channel 4 Learning Video £14 and resource book £6.95 plus £2 P+P if you order on-line.

The "Uncle Time" story featured on Eye on The Caribbean/The People is taken from "Duppy Talk: West Indian Tales of Mystery and Magic" by Gerald Hausman (Simon & Schuster for Young Readers 1994), a collection of Jamaican folk tales.

"My Grandpa and the sea" (Turnaround 1990) is another story from St Lucia. This illustrated book tells the story with an environmental message of a young girl growing up on the island of St Lucia and of her relationship with her grandfather. Email [email protected] or tel 020 8829 3000. £4.95 + £2.50 P+P

"Focus on St Lucia" by Sue Thomas (Gegoraphical Association 2004) is a new activity pack (KS 1-2) that replaces the "Focus on Castries, St Lucia" pack. The pack contains background information on the area, photographs, activities on landscape, climate, tourism and crops, and various maps for primary geography study. Available through the Geographical Association along with a variety of other learning resources on St Lucia. £24.66 (members) or £34.99 (non-members).

For a variety of other learning resources on St Lucia, visit the primary catalogue on www.worldaware.org.uk

www.movinghere.org.uk provides a detailed history of Caribbean links with the UK, stories of people who have moved to the UK and many images that could be used to explore the issues in the classroom.

To supplement the timeline on links between the UK and the Caribbean on the People page, visit www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_culture/multicultural/windrush_01.shtml

Focus on Islands

BBC's Northern Ireland site for schools focuses on the islands of Rathlin, Northern Ireland and Hallig Oland in northern Germany. The site has interactive learning activities that cover:

• practising map-reading skills;
• evaluating photographs and text;
• understanding subject-specific vocabulary;
• comparing/connecting past and present;
• imagining and empathising with other people's lives, traditions and myths;
• comparing two environments, cultures and languages.

Visit CAFOD's website for a Key Stage Two activity, "A Special Island" to stimulate creative thinking, writing, speaking and design skills. The site includes a downloadable PDF of lesson plans and links to the National Curriculum of England & Wales.

Other child-friendly websites on islands include:

www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/io.htm

www.henry.k12.ga.us/pges/kid-pages/islands/default.htm

www.islandtime.com/islandlife/

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CREDITS The Global Eye Primary website, Autumn 2004 was written by Simon Scoones and Pat Trussell. Contributions and assistance from Kate Russell, Julia Jones, Tedross Dalhouse & Yvonne Hazlewood, Kelly Haynes - Tourism Concern.

Photographs: Panos Pictures, Rex Features, Tedross & Simon Scoones/Worldaware.

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