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.
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Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Lesson Plan Bank
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...
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Teach Peace Secondary Pack
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...
Education in Emergencies
Dealing with Disasters
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...
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Living Together: Refugee
Lesson plans, worksheets, debate session plans, dialogue-based learning, and student stories on the topic of refugees. They explore questions like "What would you take?" and "To leave or to stay?" and explain reasons to migrate.
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Trinka and Sam: The Big Fire
A story that helps young children, their families, and teachers talk about feelings and worries they may have after experiencing a large-scale fire like a wildfire. This children's book describes some of Trinka's and Sam's reactions and how their par...
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Emergency Helpers
This two-minute video reminds students that there's always someone helping. After watching the video together, ask students to name some of the special helpers they can go to in an emergency (such as a doctor, firefighter, police officer, or teacher)...