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Welcome to VisionEd, World Vision’s global education email for teachers.

Are you looking for curriculum resources that:

• Reduce your planning and assessment time?
• Engage students with global issues?
• Include all learning areas?
• Get your school on the way with integrated learning?

This update features new curriculum resources that tick all these boxes.

NEW: Integrated learning about water

Water, water everywhere… but even in New Zealand we may not have enough sustainable water for our future needs.

Written by specialist teachers in seven learning areas, each of the units on each CD includes:

• A detailed lesson sequence
• A variety of teaching resources
• Student worksheets
• An assessment task with rubric

	Level 4: Water Works CD $95 Read more>>		Level 5: World of Water CD $95 Read more >>

FREE: Water poster

Photos communicate on many levels to help your students understand global water issues. Order your free poster with teacher notes on the back, or preview the teacher notes here.

Everyone everywhere needs water poster            FREE
Teacher notes pdf  >>

Order your free copies  >>

DVD: Niger water case study

Niger is one of the driest countries in the world where most people lack access to enough safe water. Students will grasp the impact water has on their own lives when they see how sustainable access to water transforms a community in Niger. Water for All DVD              Loan or $50 >> DVD script  >> Free DVD worksheet >>

WEBSITE: Abida in Niger

Explore life in Niger through the eyes of 12-year-old Abida and her family who feature in the Water for All DVD. Six water quests lead students to information pages and opinion polls that challenge them to think about water issues in their own community, as well as in other places.

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FOR YOUR DIARY:

World Water Day >>   Water and food security 22 March 2012	Global Leadership Convention >>   Year 12 – 13 students March 2012	40 Hour Famine  >>     25 – 27 May 2012

For more information about World Vision’s education resources or activities, please email our School Relationship Co-ordinators at nzsrco@worldvision.org.nz with your name and school address so we can contact you.