Education in Emergencies

This resource has 17 videos featuring Pedro the penguin on topics such as wildfires, sheltering, earthquakes, home fires, coping skills, tornados, hurricanes, and more.

This resource contains 36 daily and 24 weekly lesson plans that can be used to deliver explicit social-emotional learning instruction. Topics include: why we listen, focusing attention, impulse control, expressing how we feel, negative thought patter...

This online game teaches adults and children how to build safer villages and cities against disasters. Users learn through playing how the location and the construction materials of houses make a difference when disasters strike and how early warning...

A one-page checklist to help students find items for an emergency kit. Students can decide on a place to keep their emergency kit.

This Amnesty International activity pack contains eight classroom activities for students ages 7 to 11 that teach about asylum seekers and refugees. It encourages students to draw parallels with their own lives, building an empathetic understanding o...

This graphic novel is a story about three young refugees in their adopted home. They embark on a journey to the past to understand the magical strength that brought them to safety and how this power can serve their new lives.

This web page contains a variety of teaching materials for students that prioritize interactive learning with peers and teachers and emphasize social-emotional skills and diversity. The materials are divided into sections by student age groups: 6-9, ...

This cross-curricular resource for 11-14 year olds features detailed background information on floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, and, famine. It also includes case study material and lesson plans to help teachers answer: Why do disasters happen? Can t...