Aims

The aims of Wara Bilong Life are to encourage communication, the sharing of ideas between students throughout New Zealand to encourage 'out of the square' creative problem solving in a 'real world' context.

Sample briefs for the classroom Downloadable sample brief for a health education board game. Downloadable Cartoon Cleanliness brief Downloadable tippy tap brief Sample units Health and Physical Education curriculum exemplar on Clean Hands on the TKI website. This is a level 1 exemplar with the achievement aim of Safety and Risk Management - Students can describe and demonstrate simple healthcare and safety procedures (1A3). It's a Snap. A Cross-Curricular, School-Wide Education Program for (USA) Middle Schools Hand washing in schools Do we have a handwashing problem in New Zealand schools? Click here to see. High School Children Fail Basic Hand Washing Test - Food Safety Week, 2002 Lay Your Hands on a Million Microbes - from the American Society for Microbiology, this site features heaps of information and activities to do with handwashing The New York Times daily lesson plans include an excellent handwashing unit suitable for year 8 + called It Might Come in Handy - Learning About Hand Washing and Communicable Disease Reference sites - Papua New Guinea Monika's trip to Papua New Guinea - Messages sent back to New Zealand schools during a trip to visit Highland schools. AT Projects - the organisation in Papua New Guinea who are busy building toilets in Easter highland schools. Reference sites - water The Oxfam Water for Survival Programme Background material on projects in the Eastern highlands can be found here. Water Aid has a wealth of water-related teaching and learning resources suitable for all ages on their education pages. The International Water and Sanitation Centres' website for School Sanitation and Health. World Vision's Water issues cards are a great starting place for debate. Young Water Action Team - an organisation that is creating a network of young people who are dedicated to tacking the world's challenges with water, sanitation and hygiene. New Zealand, 4 million careful owners - a basic site about water developed by the Ministry for the Environment. International Year of Sanitation - 2008 This International Year of Sanitation seeks to raise awareness of, and to accelerate progress towards, the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by half the proportion of the 2.6 billion people without access to basic sanitation, by 2015. Reference sites - plant extracts Te Ara, the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, has just launched its web pages on "the Bush", including a section on Plant Extracts.