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
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Games Bank
Over 60 games that can be used by teachers to reinforce social-emotional learning competencies. These games help reinforce the 5 SEL competencies – brain building, emotion regulation, positive social skills, conflict resolution, and perseverance.
Education in Emergencies
La storia di Hassan e Youssof
In questo breve video, Hassan and Youssof sono due bambini rifugiati che riflettono sulla loro vita in Siria e raccontano della loro decisione di andare in Europa e del loro padre, un campione di karate che ha insegnato loro la disciplina. Il video è...
Education in Emergencies
Maghanda kasama si Pedro
Binuo ang mga rekursong ito ng American Red Cross para turuan ang maliliit na bata at ang kanilang mga pamilya kung paano mananatiling ligtas sa panahon ng mga sakuna at emerhensiya sa pamamagitan ng nakaaaliw na mga aktibidad tulad ng mga larong tug...
Education in Emergencies
Make a Family Emergency Plan
This three-page worksheet helps students make an emergency plan, which helps everyone know what to do if an emergency ever happens. It includes family contact details, emergency contacts, an emergency meeting place, neighborhood helpers, and more.
Education in Emergencies
Earthquakes Teaching Resource
This resource focuses on how individuals and communities prepare for, respond to, and recover from life-changing natural disasters. It also explores the causes of earthquakes using the examples of the 2015 Nepal earthquake, 2010 Haiti earthquake, and...
Education in Emergencies
Roads to Refuge
This resource has 13 lesson plans on exploring who is a refugee, refugee journeys, and refugee settlement. Lessons cover terminology, myths and facts, persecution, countries of origin, why people flee, where people seek asylum, durable solutions, res...
Education in Emergencies
In Search of Safety
These teaching resources explore the arrival of refugees and migrants in Europe, including one-off lessons and longer projects. There are more than 20 activities, children's stories, infographics, and videos to bring the topic to life. Historical con...