Thank you Department of Education!
Nature-based Education is pleased to announce that four of our resources have been selected by the Department of Education for inclusion in its current Projects 1980 (Library Rescources) and 2028 (LTSM).
The selected resources are:
Animals and the Seasons • Friends Don’t Bite • I’m a very special modern-day Dinosaur • The Great Cage Escape
February 2024 : Nature-based Education received this letter after our recent engagement with the Gauteng Department of Education.
Resources and e-Books
Selected e-books include voice and interactive activities
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CRAFT ACTIVITIES are FREE to download​
Foundation Phase
I’m a very special modern-day dinosaur!
ENGLISH / AFRIKAANS
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Big Book. Full colour. This book supports Grade R Term 4 CAPS Life Skills topics: Birds & Dinosaurs: Discovering that a distant cousin of today's birds was T. Rex.
This book was selected by the Gauteng Department of Education for inclusion in its current Projects 1980 (Library Rescources) and 2028 (LTSM)
​R220.00
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e-Book
Includes voice and interactive activities
​R220.00
Animals and the Seasons
ENGLISH / AFRIKAANS
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Big Book. Full colour. See index of content HERE
This book was selected by the Gauteng Department of Education's for inclusion in its current Projects 1980 (Library Rescources) and 2028 (LTSM)
Recommended for Foundation Phase
​R250.00
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Peak preview HERE
e-Book
Includes voice and interactive activities
R250.00
Caring Kids
ENGLISH / AFRIKAANS / IsiXHOSA
IsiZULU / SeSOTHO / SeTSWANA
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Colour illustrations. A compilation of 7 fun stories on animal rescue focusing on pets and farm animals.
​Recommended for Foundation Phase and Second Language Intermediate Phase learners
​​​​R250.00
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e-Book
Includes interactive activity
R250.00
Intermediate Phase
Goosie's Story
ENGLISH / AFRIKAANS
Colour illustrations. Goosie's Story is about a laying hen confined to life in a battery cage... until she finds freedom! She is given a second chance to lead a normal life. We share her belated discovery of the world and realise that, far from her being a mere unit of production, she has a robust ability to live life to the full.
This book is selected by the Gauteng Department of Education's LTSM Procurement Cycle for 2021: Project 802
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Recommended for Grade 4 upwards.
​R95.00
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​Workbooks @ R45,00 to order from Julia Knowler HERE
e-Book
R95.00
Heroes and Lionhearts
ENGLISH
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This book was selected by the International Youth Library in Germany for inclusion in its White Ravens list of noteworthy books (1997). Some 10 000 new books from 43 countries competed for this honour. Only 275 were chosen. In the same year, Heroes and Lionhearts was also selected as best children's non-fiction book of the year (English category) in the South African Bookchat Awards and was placed on the Honours List of the South African Childrens' Book Forum.
Ideal as a Grade 4 or Grade 5 Class Reader​
R125.00
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65 pages. Colour illustrations.
12 stories based on SPCA's Awards for Bravery, human to animal and animal to human. This book won both local and international awards.
e-Book
Includes interactive activity
R125.00
The Great Cage Escape
ENGLISH
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This book was selected by the Gauteng Department of Education for inclusion in its current Projects 1980 (Library Rescources) and 2028 (LTSM)
When a parrot is found one morning on the doorstep of a pet shop, things take a dramatic turn. "As pleasure-seekers and pain-avoiders like us, all sentient creatures deserve to be treated fairly and justly. Their most precious possession – that which allows “the spark of life” to glow brightly – is their freedom.
The Great Cage Escape captures poignantly the importance of freedom, and shows that heaven waits on the other side of the cage bars..."
​— Jonathan Balcombe: Animal Behaviourist and Author
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Recommended for Intermediate Phase.
R230.00
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e-Book
R230.00
Friends don’t Bite
ENGLISH / AFRIKAANS / isiZULU
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3 comic style stories. 30 pages. Anti-bullying of pets and promotion of pet care. Endorsed by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
​This comic book was selected by the Gauteng Department of Education for inclusion in its current Projects 1980 (Library Rescources) and 2028 (LTSM)
Recommended for Intermediate Phase
R70.00
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e-Book
R70.00
Senior Phase
Magnificent Boy and the Spirit of the Grey Hare
ENGLISH / AFRIKAANS
Novel. 103 pages, colour illustrations.
Magnificent Boy and Boetie — even the grey hare — lived in the farmlands between Kuils River and Stellenbosch in the Western Cape, South Africa, during the 1990’s.
At the time, author, Louise van der Merwe lived there too and watched events unfold.
Based on fact, this novel is her tribute to the awesome friendship between Boetie and Boy and their tenacious will to triumph against all odds.
Recommended for Grade 7 and higher
R125.00​
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e-Book
R125.00
e-Book Lesson Plans
Includes interactive activities
For the Love of Kin
ENGLISH
A fictionalised version of what really happened in South Africa in 2024 when Compassion in World Farming CEO, Philip Lymbery accepted an invitation from pioneering food company Newform Foods to sample its cultivated lamb meatballs. The fact that a very happy, healthy sheep, still enjoying life at the Greyton Farm Animal Sanctuary, had provided the meatballs, was motivation enough for Philip to break his 40-year fast from meat.
The story is told by Pecorino, the sheep who provided his cells for the cultivated meatballs.
Recommended for Grade 7 and higher
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R250.00 Peak preview HERE
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e-Book
R250.00
PLAYS
5 FREEDOMS The Play
ENGLISH / AFRIKAANS
Dialogue script for play.
Including dog puppet face mask templates to cut out.
Based on the 5 Freedoms for Animals as endorsed by the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH).
Recommended for Foundation Phase
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R140.00 Peak preview HERE
SENTIENCE The Play
ENGLISH / AFRIKAANS
Dialogue script for play.
Including animal puppet templates to cut out.
Based on bullying and hurt feelings.
Recommended for Foundation & Intermediate Phases
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R170.00 Peak preview HERE
GOOSIE The Play
ENGLISH / AFRIKAANS
Dialogue script for play with recommended props and set design.
Based on Goosie’s Story.
Recommended for Foundation & Intermediate Phases
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R170.00 Peak preview HERE
Curriculum-aligned resources for Teachers
Interactive Lesson Plans will be available from January 2025
Grades R – 3 Lesson Plans
ENGLISH
Full colour.
Curriculum-aligned resource for teachers:
Life Skills Grades R – 3.
R290.00
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View Index of Content HERE
Grades 4 – 6 Lesson Plans
ENGLISH
Full colour.
Curriculum-aligned resource for teachers:
Life Orientation Grades 4 – 6.
R290.00
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View Index of Content HERE
Grades 7 – 9 Lesson Plans
ENGLISH
Full colour.
Curriculum-aligned resource for teachers:
Life Orientation Grades 7 – 9.
R215.00
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View Index of Content HERE
Grades 10 – 12 Lesson Plans
ENGLISH
Full colour.
Curriculum-aligned resource for teachers:
Agricultural Sciences Grades 10 – 12.
R215.00
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View Index of Content HERE
