1. Learn. Activity 1 – Share the Cake 2-6
Contents
Slide Number
Learn. Activity 1 – Share the Cake
2-6
Learn. Activity 2 – Case Studies
7-8
Think. Presentation on Resource Inequality (with video) Presentation and video can be used in class or for assembly. Script available for download. Video online.
9-25
Act. Activity 3 – Expressing Wishes
26-27
Act. Activity 4 - Writing your Message in a Book
28-31
Reflect. Activity 5 - Plenary
32-34
Activities and presentation can be used in a variety of combinations over 1 or 2 lessons.
For complete instructions use the accompanying ‘Sharing the Earth Workshop’ on

2. Use activity instructions in the accompanying ‘Sharing the Earth Workshop’ on for all information.

3. Photo Credit: fotographic1980 from http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/
Us these slides only after you have shared out cake per instructions in lesson plan.
Photo Credit: fotographic1980 from

4. £1
£10
Do you think we share the cake fairly in reality? If there were 10 people in the world and £10 what would be the fair way to share out the money….yes - £1 each,
Slide 2: Is this the fair way?

5. £5.70 £4.00 but this is how we currently share the world’s wealth
£5.70 goes to one person
£4 goes to the other 9 people
is that fair?
Notes
57 per cent of global income is in the hands of just 10 per cent of people.
Source: Oxfam Discussion Papers: A safe and just space for humanity - CAN WE LIVE WITHIN THE DOUGHNUT?
Kate Raworth

6. What resources does the earth provide that we should share fairly?
Photo Credit: fotographic1980 from

7. Use activity instructions in the accompanying ‘Sharing the Earth Workshop’ on for all information.

8. Meet… Mttamba Village Veronica, Saibi and Emilia
What could happen to them their families? Why?
Why do they need their share of the cake?
850 people live here on ‘village land’, which in Tanzanian law means the local people own and control it. They grow food to eat, use the swamp to collect water, and many get nearly ¾ of their income from making charcoal from the forest.
Sun Bio-fuels bought the land to grow plants for biofuels. The company can make a lot of profit by selling the fuel to European countries. They promised to create 4000 jobs but they only created 1,500 and few villagers have the qualifications to work there. Villagers received less than half the compensation to which they were entitled, and many did not know how to claim the money. The swamp is no longer accessible and those who relied on charcoal have lost access to the forest.
Photo Credit: Aubrey Wade / OXFAM

9. You can use this presentation on its own in an assembly or in the classroom. The presentation aims to give an overview of:
Why we all depend upon the planet’s resources
How we are not looking after the planet’s resources
How we are not doing well at sharing the planet’s resources
How we could share better
That there is an Earth summit this year which will address these issues
The opportunity there is as a young person to make their voice heard through Message in a Book

10. Picture credit: Idea go from http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/
Why do we need the planet? What does it give us?
Answers could be Water
Air
Food
Land
Sun
Plants
Etc
Questions you could use to prompt responses:
What do we need to stay alive? (Food, water). This comes from the Earth.
Why do you like playing outside? It’s pretty, sunny, there are animals, fresh air. This is all because of the Earth.
What do you need to grow the food you eat? Water, land, Sun. This all comes from the Earth.
Picture credit: Idea go from

11. Photo Credit - Ng Swan Ti/Oxfam GB
Looking after natural resources is vital.
More than 70 per cent of people in Betsina Petikotik ‘s (pictured) community rely on fishing for their survival. I get my food from a supermarket – but lots of people rely on natural resources to grow food directly (to eat or sell).
What would happen to Betsina’s community if we ran out of fish in the ocean?
DO NOT READ:
FAO's 1995 world fisheries report estimates that 70% of the world's marine fish stocks are either fully exploited, overfished, depleted or recovering from overfishing.
Photo Credit - Ng Swan Ti/Oxfam GB

12. So let’s see if we’re looking after these resources…
Who likes Fish and Chips? Well the fish that come with your fish and chips are usually cod. Unfortunately we have been taking too many cod out of the ocean.
Next slide to see what this looks like. 

13. Over 90 per cent of large predatory fish, such as cod and tuna, have already been caught.
Source: Greenpeace.

14. What do you put in your car to make it move
What do you put in your car to make it move? Yes – petrol – which comes from oil. Do you think we have used a lot of the world’s oil?
Next slide.

15. Yes. We’ve already used approximately 41% of all the world’s oil.
DO NOT READ
Total oil reserves are 1342 billion barrels according to Oil & Gas Journal, Vol , total oil used so far is 944 Billion barrels according to The Oil Depletion Analysis Centre (ODAC) therefore we have used 41% of total oil reserves.

16. This is how we have looked after The Earth’s natural forests:
Next slide.
Picture Credit: digitalart from
Picture Credit: digitalart from

17. Picture Credit: digitalart from http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/
According to the World Resources Institute, more than 80 percent of the Earth’s natural forests already have been destroyed.
Source:
Picture Credit: digitalart from
Picture Credit: digitalart from

18. X 4.5 X 8 X 32 = = = = = = Ghana United Kingdom
So we know that we have been using the Earth’s too quickly. Are there some people who have been using more than others?
Lets look at how much water, CO2 and meat someone uses each year in the UK compared to someone in Ghana.
A UK person uses 4.5 times more water than someone in Ghana (rounded up from 4.43)
A UK person uses 32 times more water than someone in Ghana (rounded down from 32.3)
A UK person eats 8 times more water than someone in Ghana (rounded down from 8.04)
NOTES – not to be read out
Water used by
1 person Ghana = 47.96m3 per year
1 person UK = m3 per person per year
Source:
CO2 emmited by
1 person Ghana = 0.3 tonnes per person per year (2006)
1 person UK = 9.7 tonnes per person per year (2006)
Source:
Meat consumption by
1 person Ghana = 9.9 kg per person per year.
1 person UK = 79.6 kg per person per year
Source: =
X 32 =

19. Photo Credit: Tuca Vieira
So people have an unequal share of the earth’s resources between countries – but this can even happen in the same country.
What do you notice about this picture? Describe to me what you see.
What do you think the people of the right have? What do you think the people on the left have?
What do you think needs to change here? What do you think needs to change in the whole world?
NOTES:
The Paraisopolis favela (Paradise city shanty town) and the affluent district of Morumbi in São Paulo, Brazil sit side by side
Photo Credit: Tuca Vieira

20. Not fair? Not Fair? Not fair? = = =
What we need to do is use fewer resources in total. That is the only way we will stop losing our fish, our forests and other natural resources.
But some people are already using very few resources and need more… Who should use fewer resources – the man on the right or the man on the left?
So let’s see how we could share better, but also to use less of the world’s resources.
See next slide

21. Fair? Fair? Fair? = = = What is the difference?
Is this better? Who is using less? Who is using more? Are we using more or less overall?
NOTES – do not read –
This slide does not attempt to give a recommendation on exactly what would be a sustainable level of consumption of water, meat and CO2. It is just a graphic to show how resource use needs to level out across nations and reduce overall.

22. Photo Credit - Ng Swan Ti/Oxfam GB
Looking after natural resources is vital. SHARING natural resources is vital.
If we don’t mother nature can’t keep giving – you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube! Whoever uses the planet’s resources one thing is for sure – we all need it to live. Betsina and her community need it, and so do we.
The fate of humanity and the future health of the planet are tied together.
Photo Credit - Ng Swan Ti/Oxfam GB
Photo Credit - Ng Swan Ti/Oxfam GB

23. Message in a Book… 1. Write Messages 2. Collect Books
The blank letter template
2. Collect Books
So what are we going to do about it?
Well we have teamed up with Oxfam to make sure that we can make a difference. Oxfam is a charity that works hard to improve people’s lives in countries around the world – including Betsina and her community.
We are going to work with Oxfam in 3 ways:
1 – We will write letters – we are going to write letters and give them to our local Oxfam shop – they are going to hand these out to their customers – your messages will be really important in telling them everything you’ve just learnt about.
2 – we are going to collect books to donate to our local Oxfam shop. The more books we collect, the more money Oxfam can make to help people around the world.
3 – We will donate both letters and books to Oxfam. Oxfam will take our books and letters and give out the letters to customers and make money from our books.
So all of you can be involved in really making a difference and getting your voices heard.
3. Donate to Oxfam

24. Access video here:
Before playing video –
The world’s first Earth summit was 20 years ago in 1992 (the second one was in June 2012). At the time a girl called Severn was 12 years old. But even though she was only 12 she thought what she had to say was very important and needed to be heard by world leaders. So she raised a lot of money and went all the way to Rio in Brazil to tell world leaders what she thought. Although she was only 12 years old, she made sure that the world leaders listening to her. At the end of the speech they all stood up to applaud. And she will be remembered for the rest of her life for that speech. I am going to show you this speech now and I want you all to listen carefully. It may even give you some ideas for what you would like to write in your letters.
Access video here:

25. Explain their voice is just as important as Severn’s.
End by thanking students for listening.

26. Use activity instructions in the accompanying ‘Sharing the Earth Workshop’ on for all information.

27. What would you do if you ruled the world?
Your ideas here:

28. Use activity instructions in the accompanying ‘Sharing the Earth Workshop’ on for all information.

29. Message in a Book… 1. Write Messages 2. Collect Books
The blank letter template
2. Collect Books
3. Donate to Oxfam

30. Writing Messages 1. Write Messages
The blank letter template
Tell your community why it is important to share the Earth’s resources fairly.
Encourage others to think about what they can do to act.
Remind them how important the Earth Summit is.

31. Writing Your Letter – things to think about…
1. Why is it important to be thinking about the Earth right now?
2. What have I learnt about the planet and about how human beings share out the Earth’s resources?
3. What have I found really interesting whilst I’ve been studying this subject?
The blank letter template
4. What would I like to see happen in the future in the way we look after the planet and share the Earth’s resources?
5. What can the buyer of the book do to make a difference?

32. Use activity instructions in the accompanying ‘Sharing the Earth Workshop’ on for all information.

33. Reflect
What they can do to help look after the planet: what could you do at home? What could you do in the future?

34. Message in a Book… 1. Write Messages 2. Collect Books
The blank letter template
2. Collect Books
Remind pupils about Message in a Book
They have written their letters – now it’s time to collect Books to help Oxfam to help people and tackle inequality around the world.
3. Donate to Oxfam