Resources & Materials
Heifer's classroom resources give teachers the resources to educate their students about their world neighbors, hunger, poverty and sustainable development while inspiring students to help Heifer build a better world. Our Global Education Lesson Plans will help you provide your students with knowledge that will help them understand and appreciate the connections between people, their actions and the environment.
Read to Feed Resources
Sign Up to DownloadKeep your students excited about their Read to Feed program by using Heifer’s Read to Feed resource materials.
Leader’s Guide
Read to Feed Leader’ Guide shares the quick and easy steps of implementing the Read to Feed program, along with ideas and resources to keep your students motivated to reach their goal.
Certificates
Present these to the children at the conclusion of your program.
Stickers
Stickers can be used as reward incentives for reading. Encourage your students to collect all six. You can give them out throughout the program or place them on each child’s Read to Feed certificate to receive them all at the end of the program.
Video
Show this video at the beginning of the Read to Feed program to get your students excited about helping others. Everyday Heroes illustrates Heifer’s longstanding success at improving the lives of children around the world by telling the stories of children in China, Rwanda and Peru and how their families have benefitted from the gift of Heifer animals. This DVD is included in each of the Global Education Resource Kits so if you already own a kit, you will not need to order this DVD. (One DVD per group.)
Student Guide
Real Kids, Real Animals includes everything children need to share with their parents about the Read to Feed program, including a letter to parents explaining the program, enrollment form to be returned to the leader, sponsor envelope to collect pledges and a Book List to track their progress. Real Kids, Real Animals also shares how animals can help families lift themselves out of poverty. Encourage the children to share this section with their parents and their sponsors pledging donations.
Donation Form
Classroom Donation Form to complete and return to Heifer International at the end of your program.
Bookmarks
Bookmarks can be given at the beginning of the program to remind the kids about their Read to Feed goal.
Poster
Display this 17" x 22" poster to remind your students about their Read to Feed program.
If you would like a hard copy of the Read to Feed Fundraising Kit, fill out our online order form at heifer.org.
Learning Resources
Sign Up to DownloadHeifer’s lessons are flexible (use one or use them together as a unit), meet national learning standards, and help lead students on the path to active global citizenship.
Our Pre-K through sixth grade Global Education Lesson Plans (in English and Spanish) put a new spin on courses like English, geography, science and others.
Heifer offers a variety of supplemental standards-based lessons for your students from Kindergarten to grade 8 to supplement Read to Feed.
| Resource Type | Title | Content | Spanish Edition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lesson Plan 1 | Reading Comprehension: "The Chicken and the Worm" | Language Arts | Lesson Plan 1 |
| Lesson Plan 2 | Animals and their Environments: Where Do Chickens and Worms Live? | Science | Lesson Plan 2 |
| Lesson Plan 3 | Animals Helping People: How Do Chickens and Worms Help People? | Science, Language Arts | Lesson Plan 3 |
| Lesson Plan 4 | Building a Worm Bin | Life Science | Lesson Plan 4 |
| Book | "The Chicken and the Worm" | - | Book |
| Resource Type | Title | Country | Content | Spanish Edition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lesson Plan 1 | Understanding the Story of Beatrice and Her Goat | Uganda | Language Arts | Lesson Plan 1 |
| Lesson Plan 2 | Your Connection to the Community | - | Geography, Civics and Government | Lesson Plan 2 |
| Lesson Plan 3 | Doing Your Part: Accomplishing Group Goals | - | Civics, Language Arts | Lesson Plan 3 |
| Lesson Plan 4 | The Places We Live: Comparing and Contrasting | Uganda, USA | Geography | Lesson Plan 4 |
| Lesson Plan 5 | Web of Connections | - | Geography, Science | Lesson Plan 5 |
| Book | "Beatrice's Goat" | Published by Simon and Schuster. Available at libraries and bookstores. | ||
| Resource Type | Title | Country | Content | Spanish Edition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lesson Plan 1 | Songming Settings | China | Language Arts | Lesson Plan 1 |
| Lesson Plan 2 | Three Rivers | China | Science, Geography | Lesson Plan 2 |
| Lesson Plan 3 | Biogas as a Source of Energy | - | Science, Geography | Lesson Plan 3 |
| Lesson Plan 4 | Jue Ju Poetry | China | Language Arts | Lesson Plan 4 |
| Lesson Plan 5 | House | - | Geometry Mathematics | Lesson Plan 5 |
| Book | "Winter in Songming" | - | - | Book |
| Resource Type | Title | Country | Content | Spanish Edition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lesson Plan 1 | Another Point of View - Reading Comprehension | Armenia | Language Arts, Geography | Lesson Plan 1 |
| Lesson Plan 2 | An Example of Civic Life: The Ecology Club | Armenia | Civics | Lesson Plan 2 |
| Lesson Plan 3 | Math Lesson - Polling Activity | - | Mathematics | Lesson Plan 3 |
| Lesson Plan 4 | Displaying Culture in Art and Literature | - | Language Arts, Visual Arts, Social Studies | Lesson Plan 4 |
| Book | "Once There Was and Was Not" | - | - | Book |
GET IT! Lesson Plans
Our middle school program, Global Education to Improve Tomorrow (GET IT!), teaches students about their roles as consumers and the effects their choices have in the global marketplace, while emphasizing reading comprehension, audience-based writing, high-level thinking and research strategies. The units feature the international trade of flowers, coffee and bananas, common products that people in the United States buy from Latin America.
The middle-school lesson plans go hand in hand with Chores for Change, a service-learning program that teaches students about hunger and what they can do to make a difference in their own communities, as well as around the world. Chores for Change is a program that teaches students of any age about community service, the world and how to make a difference. Participants work as volunteers to reduce hunger, such as passing out food at a soup kitchen or collecting cans for a food bank. Each participant recruits sponsors to pledge donations for time spent in volunteer activities, collects the donations and sends them to Heifer International to help us fight world hunger. The experience of confronting hunger issues, firsthand, teaches lifelong lessons.