A River Child

A River Child
By Dr Sue Lyle
Price £60.00


‘A River Child’ helps children to find out about rivers through the study of a 10-year old boy, Mohamed, in one village community in Nigeria.

Through the pack pupils will find out how the people of Gashaka live as the human component in a balanced ecosystem. They are asked to compare and contrast the lives of children in this village with their own community and consider the concepts of interdependence and self-sufficiency and environmental danger and rescue. Understanding the importance of rivers in the life of the village of Gashaka is developed in a number of ways in the full pack.

The activities and contents include:

• A Culturegram - Six copies of a full-colour poster that depicts photographs and images of the people, animals and landscape of Gashaka. Through examining the culturegram the children form their initial ideas about life in this small village in Nigeria.
• Card-Sorting and Drama Activities to deepen children’s understanding of different cultures, the environmental risks to river-based communities and how environments can be saved through positive intervention.
• Extensive Teachers Handbook to support a thinking skills approach to the cross-curriculum project.
• Mohamed of Gashaka Storybook - Mohamed tells his own story of life in Gashaka and illustrates it with colour photographs, which he has stuck on the pages. There are five copies of this A5 booklet for children to share in class. 
• Also includes a CD with Powerpoint presentations, templates and resources.

The impact of A River Child has been thoroughly researched and shown to have very positive impacts on literacy, geographical understanding and student motivation.


A River Child
By Dr Sue Lyle
Price £60.00