Practical Action are a development charity who are offering lots of free resources that are ideal for Family Learning Practitioners and/or Initial Teacher Training. The resources are linked to their work in helping some of the world’s poorest people to transform their lives for the better.

The Education area of their site has a wide range of content for practitioners and learners, including:

  • Videos showing how designers make their sustainable products (useful for Design Technology);
  • 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; and
  • Cross-curricular videos and lesson activities.
Visit http://www.practicalaction.org.uk/practical-action-uk/home-uk and click on the Education Tab to find out more.