Barefoot+Billion+Project


 * ** BAREFOOT BILLION PROJECT AT INS. JOANOT MARTORELL **

[|www.barefootbillion.com]  Pictures of the Project From 12th to 23rd May Final product: Hall exhibition ||
 * ** Project BASICS ** || ** Our Questions **
 * (Possible sections in the hall for the exhibition) ** |||| ** Tasks ** || ** Teachers responsible and students in charge ** || ** Resources ** ||
 * ** Who? ** National Poet, Philip Wells || Who is Phillip Wells? |||| **Suggested activity:** Write a Biography

with students from 4rth A || Wikipedia Twitter @theFIREpoet
 * Suggested activity: ** Summarise the Project for everybody to know what we are doing || Nuria

Project website ||
 * ** What? ** He will undertake a 1000 barefoot walk across the UK from April 22nd-August 15th 2014.

He will also be performing poetry in the schools and historic places he passes each week. || How can we support him?

Which places and historic sites will he visit?

Which will be his travel plan? |||| **Suggested activity:** Students draw their bare foot and they decorate it. By the end of the project they willl write a poem, message of hope for the future based on the information from the hall exhibition.

**Suggested activity:** They will also draw small feet for decoration

12-14 year olds
 * Suggested activity: ** Report Wells walk using a map of the UK || Meritxell, Marta and Lorenzo

Lucia 14-15 year olds || Models from website

Website ||
 * ** Why? ** To raise people's awareness of the plight of the one billion children in the world that live in poverty, many of whom have no education or shoes || What is child poverty?

Where do these children live?

What are the causes of their poverty? |||| ** Suggested activity 1: ** Read the definition in English provided and write a Summary


 * Suggested activity 2: ** Political world map drawn in packing paper.


 * Suggested activity 3 : ** Fill in the @Countries Template

**Suggested activity 4:** Identify the problems that cause their poverty

15-16 year olds || Humanium's definition of Child Poverty
 * Suggested activity 5: ** Fill in the Causes Template || Berta and Núria

@World screenshot

Humanium Overview by country

@Causes screenshot

[|Humanium Website] (see menu on the left) ||
 * ** Possible solutions ** || How are these problems tackled? |||| Marta's and Meritxell's students visit the exhibitions and get ideas to write on their bare feet

What does UNICEF do?

What other NGO help children?

What else could be done? || Marta and Meritxell

Berta and Núria15-16 year olds || Unicef Report in Spanish and English ||
 * ** Children poverty in Spain ** || Is there a child poverty problem in Spain? |||| What are the causes?

How can we solve them?


 * Suggested activity: ** Students study the report in Spanish and then make mind maps and summaries in English, taking advantage of all the English they learnt in the previous activities || Berta and Núria15-16 year olds || ** Save the Children Report ** ||
 * ** What can we do? ** || How can we raise money?

What else can we do?

How can we improve things in our neighbourhood? |||| Student's ideas, written on pieces of cardboard || ** Everybody ** ||  ||