Our new education module helps teach kids aged 7-11 years essential cognitive skills. Children are invited to raise money to plant trees by holding a Tea Party. The Tea party includes designing and distributing invitations and concocting new blends of tea. Further elements include calculating the costs of holding such an event and the construction of spreadsheets to investigate profits. Useful information is provided about many of the tea producing countries, providing the opportunity to develop strong reading skills.
Further activities ask pupils to locate tea-producing countries in the appropriate continent.
They must also consider a range of information and use that to decide upon the siting of a new tea plantation. This interactive task culminates in children writing a report, explaining their choice of location. Pupils also have the opportunity to investigate insulation, establishing the best options of how to keep a cup of tea hot. Not only is it relevant but it is well targeted and user friendly. With the increase in the number of online users in Britain, The Tea Council feel it is important to provide good quality online teaching resources for the younger population.