Resources
Humanitarian emergencies—including conflicts, mass displacement, environmental disasters, and health crises—cause severe disruptions to education for millions of children. Here, you will find a curated selection of lesson plans and classroom activities designed to empower educators who are either teaching about such emergencies or who have emergency-impacted students in their classrooms. Topics include: refugees, statelessness, human rights, war and conflict, peace, climate-induced crises, emergency preparedness, natural hazards, first aid, and social-emotional learning. Find out more about our Education in Emergencies (EiE) initiative and our EiE work.
Education in Emergencies
Stop Disasters Game
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...
Education in Emergencies
Disaster Master Video Game
A video game that helps students learn how to make the right decisions during disasters and earn points to unlock new levels. If they can master all seven levels (wildfire, tornado, hurricane/blackout, home fire, winter storm, tsunami/earthquake, thu...
Education in Emergencies
The Secret Power: UNHCR Graphic Novel
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.
Education in Emergencies
Monsoon Rains
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people who fled violence in Myanmar now live in makeshift camps in Bangladesh and living conditions are extremely basic. This lesson explores how the monsoon season affects life in these camps and work that is being ...
Education in Emergencies
Amazon Wildfires
In this lesson, students will discuss the human causes of Amazon rainforest destruction, explore the role of the Amazon in the lives of Indigenous people, and understand how the destruction of the Amazon can affect people’s lives. Using photos, stude...
Education in Emergencies
Newsthink: The Afghanistan Crisis
A lesson to examine and discuss Afghanistan via an evocative photograph of people at Kabul airport during the crisis that unfolded in August 2021. Students will analyze and identify how people were impacted by this event, debate the statement "All pe...
Education in Emergencies
L'histoire de Hassan et Youssof
Dans cette courte vidéo, Hassan et Youssof, deux enfants réfugiés, évoquent leur vie en Syrie, leur décision de se rendre en Europe et la manière dont leur père inculque la discipline en tant que champion de karaté. Les enseignants pourraient égaleme...
Education in Emergencies
Venezuela: Humanitarian Aid and Neutrality
A lesson to examine and discuss the humanitarian situation in Venezuela and the principle of neutrality. The economic crisis in Venezuela has been frequently reported in the news, but behind these headlines, there is a serious and growing humanitaria...