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 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...

This resource has 50 cross-curricular lessons from a range of organizations including Amnesty International and War Child. Topics include challenging antisemitism and Islamophobia, conflict transformation, religion and peace, the human rights effects...

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 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 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...

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 resource has six classroom activities to be used alongside the "If War Comes to You" interactive film. Activities are focused on three characters in a conflict situation: a civilian, a soldier, and an aid worker. Each of these characters will ma...