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Armed Conflict
This collection of teacher resources addresses armed conflict. The units highlight the story of a teenager named Martha, from Sierra Leone, who shares how she copes with the aftermath of conflict in her country. The lesson plans, videos multimedia and stories in this collection illustrate the issues and challenges of armed conflict, as well as how children and communities are being supported.
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Child Labor
This collection of teacher resources addresses child labor. The units highlight the story of a teenager named Ali who shares his experience working in a restaurant in Jordan. The lesson plans, videos, multimedia and stories in this collection illustrate the issues and challenges of child labor, as well as how children and communities are being supported.
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Child Rights (CRC)
The units, lesson plans, videos, multimedia, and stories in this collection of teacher resources are intended to raise students' awareness of child and family rights, specifically looking at the international treaty, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
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Child Survival
The educator guides, youth report, multimedia, videos and stories in this collection of teacher resources are intended for students to discover how the global community is uniting to save children's lives. Youth will learn about the threats to children's well-being and the solutions.
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Climate Change
This collection of teacher resources consists of an educator guide, Climate Change, Children and Youth: Local Connections to Global Issues, a UNICEF Canada resource. This guide is intended to engage youth around the topic of climate change and its effects on the world’s children. Additional resources, such as stories, videos, and podcasts have been included in this collection to provide additional opportunities for youth to explore the topic of climate change.
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Disability Awareness
This collection of teacher resources addresses disability awareness. The units highlight the story of a teenager named Nodira who shares her experience living with a disability. The lesson plans, videos, multimedia and stories in this collection illustrate the challenges of children with disabilities face, as well as how children are being supported.
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Economic Equality
Economic Equality is a unit composed of two lessons designed to raise awareness of women's economic inequality and demonstrate how improving the economic situation for women also improves the lives of children. Videos, multimedia and stories have also been added to this collection of teacher resources.
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Education
This collection of teacher resources addresses education. The units, lesson plans and video highlight the stories of several young girls who face challenges in gaining access to education and being able to attend school. The multimedia and stories in this collection illustrate the issues and challenges of ensuring access to a quality education.
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Emergencies
Many children face danger after a natural disaster or an emergency. The teacher resources in this collection raise students' awareness about both natural and war-related emergencies, the ensuing humanitarian response and other areas of UNICEF's emergency response.
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Gender Equality
This collection of teacher resources, including units, lesson plans, videos, multimedia, and stories, are intended to raise student awareness of the importance of gender equality.
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HIV/AIDS
Around the world, HIV/AIDS adversely affects the lives of millions of people, particularly children. HIV/AIDS is preventable, and no child needs to be born HIV-positive. UNICEF works to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS from mother-to-child, provide pediatric treatment to children with HIV, and support children who have been left orphaned or vulnerable due to the effects of HIV/AIDs on their communities.
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Maternal and Newborn Health
The teacher guide, youth report, video, multimedia, and stories in this collection are intended to help students understand the great disparity in levels of maternal and newborn health around the world.
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Millennium Development Goals
This collection of teacher resources addresses the Millennium Development Goals. The units, lesson plans, videos multimedia, and stories in this collection are intended to raise students' awareness of the problems facing children worldwide and how world leaders and governments have pledged to solve them by 2015 through eight goals.
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Poverty
This collection of teacher resources addresses poverty. The units highlight the story of a teenager named Himal from Nepal who shares his story of working to overcome challenging circumstances. The additional lesson plans, videos, multimedia and stories in this collection illustrate the issues and challenges of addressing poverty.
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UNICEF: An Introduction
UNICEF was founded in 1946 to help children in the aftermath of World War II. Now operating in more than 150 countries, it has saved more children than any other humanitarian organization. UNICEF advocates for the protection of children’s rights and provides services to help meet their basic needs. The teacher resources in this collection provide an overview of UNICEF's work.
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Water and Sanitation
The teacher resources in this collection raise student awareness of the problems facing children with inadequate access to clean water.
The PK-2 Water and Sanitation unit was recently featured in an article in Social Studies and the Young Learner, published by the National Council for the Social Studies.
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World Languages: Español
Bienvenido a TeachUNICEF, una colección de recursos educativos en español. Estos recursos abarcan una variedad de temas que se pueden utilizar dentro y fuera del aula. Para acceder a los recursos adicionales centrados en los jóvenes en español por favor visite Voces de la Juventud de UNICEF en http://www.unicef.org/voy/spanish/.
The World/Foreign Languages topic provides information on UNICEF, in Spanish.
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World Languages: Français
Bienvenue à la collection francophone de ressources TeachUNICEF. Ces ressources portent sur une variété de sujets qui peuvent être utilisés à l’intérieur ainsi qu’ à l’extérieur de la classe. Pour accéder à d’autres ressources qui sont axées sur la jeunesse en français, visitez UNICEF La voix des Jeunes à http://www.unicef.org/voy/french/.
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Youth Activism
This collection of teacher resources addresses youth activism. The units, lesson plans and video highlight the story of a teenager named Doly from Bangladesh who shares her story of working to educate her community about important health practices and issues that impact girls, such as child marriage.
UNICEF links, Cartoons and Games
- UNICEF Photoessays
- Child Rights Cartoons
- UNICEF Cartoon: Meena
- Water Alert! Game
- Ayiti Game
- UNICEF Voices of Youth
- Child Info
- UNICEF Tap Project
- Unite for Climate
- Child Alert Darfur
- Progress for Children Report - update on the MDGs
- UNICEF State of the World's Children Report Microsites
- TeachUNICEF TeacherTube Channel
