Teaching Resources

A series of videos in the form of short story, documentary, and interviews, especially crafted for African countries, to raise awareness about climate change. These videos serve as powerful educational tools and can be seamlessly incorporated into cl...

This PDF guide draws from the firsthand experience of the authors on how to declare a climate emergency in a school. Teachers can use this guide to learn from a real-life case study and adapt the strategies to create similar initiatives in their own ...

This webpage contains an infographic outlining preparedness activities students can do in their homes. For example: securing bookcases and shelves, placing heavy objects on lower shelves, turning off gas, electricity and water, and more.

This guide shares strategies and recommendations to incorporate disability justice teaching into a classroom. It shares what can be done before, during, and after a lesson.

This article from 2015 uses Empieza Por Educar fellow Óliver Jabato's experience to reflect on two patterns we see in transformational classrooms around the world: collective ownership (teachers and students sharing ownership of learning) and student...

Watch this video from 2017 in which Anseye Pou Ayiti explores how a deep interrogation of history can lead to a transformational approach to locally rooted education.

Activities to discuss the bombing of civilian areas and international humanitarian law. Students need to imagine what it is like to experience an airstrike, what you would be thinking, and any words of comfort that could help. Students are also given...

Disaster Mind is an educational game that teaches high school students how to stay calm and make solid decisions during a disaster. This game is developed for teenagers by Emergency Managers. Students must make quick decisions in the face of three na...

A lesson focused on the Syrian conflict that began in 2011. Fierce fighting and bombing have left the city of Raqqa in ruins. In 2018, a group of teenagers decided that, rather than waiting for others to rebuild the city’s schools, they would create ...