Teaching Resources

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...

An article on how to start a conversation with your students about what happens when the unexpected happens. It’s hard to know what to say when talking to students about emergencies. Teachers don’t want to worry their students, but it’s important for...

A curriculum that integrates concepts from the earth, life, and physical sciences to understand climate change. The lesson plans, designed for 17 days of instruction, include a variety of both teacher-centered and student-centered activities ranging ...

In this video from 2014, Ignacio Brea asks for students’ feedback, discovering solutions to his own challenges and serving as a powerful model for constant learning.

A lesson to examine the Indonesia earthquake and tsunami in 2018, which left over 1,700 people dead, over 60,000 displaced from their homes, and thousands more injured or missing. In this lesson, students will review what has happened and explore the...

This resource has 50+ lesson plans, worksheets and teaching activities. Topics include drones, understanding violence, military spending, mediation, youth campaigning, and more.

Este recurso tiene 17 videos con el pingüino Pedro sobre temas como los incendios forestales, los refugios, los terremotos, los incendios domésticos, las habilidades de afrontamiento, los tornados, los huracanes, etc.

A toolkit by young people for young people to guide the design, implementation, and monitoring of an effective national advocacy action roadmap to bring about positive policy-specific changes to improve the health and well-being of adolescents.

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 st...

En este ejercicio reflexivo, exploramos los beneficios y los costos de los dos extremos de un espectro relacionado con esta lente de Estudiantes como Líderes.