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Newsthink - Quick teaching ideas poster
Published
2011
Type
Poster
Price
FREE
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This A1 sized poster from the British Red Cross is packed with activities, photos and brainteasers to inspire you with ideas and lesson starters for secondary teaching. They cover issues that the Red Cross is involved in worldwide, such as: dealing with emergencies, humanitarian law, and the human impact of war and conflict.
The cross-curricular triggers, prompts and questions on the po...
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- Art and design,
- Citizenship,
- English,
- Geography,
- Media studies,
- Modern studies,
- Music,
- PSHE / PSE / PSED,
- RE / RS,
- Science
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Somewhere to run to
Published
2010
Type
Booklet
Website
Price
£4.50
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This interactive resource enables young people to create their own model of an emergency camp through considering the tough choices people make in a disaster. It can be linked to many primary subjects and encourages the development of many key skills
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Needs and Wants Auction
Published
2010
Type
Game
PDF- Website
Price
FREE
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This free online resource from the British Red Cross gets young people thinking about the difference between the things they need and the things they want, and how people around the world have their basic needs met, particularly in crisis situations.
In teams, young people act as families displaced due to conflict or natural disaster. Each team receives money – specially designed ...
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Robots in War
Human soldiers have emotions. Robots don't. Robots are never affected by anger or revenge, frustration or fatigue. They don't need food or water. They can be destroyed. But they don't leave bereaved families. Could using robots make armed conflict more humane?
This free online interactive resource from the British Red Cross enables secondary-age students to explore the issues that quest...
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Positive Images Toolkit
Published
2010
Type
- PDF
- Website
Price
FREE
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The Positive Images Toolkit is an educational resource for teachers, youth workers and other educators that can be used to teach young people, aged 12 and over, about migration and development. The toolkit includes lesson plans, games, videos and interactive activities and aims to support young people in understanding migration and the Millennium Development Goals, and to feel empowered to take...
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Recovering a future
Published
2009
Type
- Game
- Website
Price
FREE
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This website from the British Red Cross provides background information on how they set about helping communities to rebuild following the Indian Ocean tsunami which struck on Boxing Day 2004.
Faced with many challenges and difficult decisions, the British Red Cross managed to leave communities better able to cope with future disasters that may hit. The website explains how they approac...
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Regions / countries
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Operation Amphibian
Published
2009
Type
- Game
Teacher's Pack- Website
Price
£16.00
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Operation Amphibian is a simulation activity from the British Red Cross in which young people aged 7-14 build a camp for people displaced by war or natural disaster. The activity will help participants explore how people are affected by disasters or conflict and understand how the Red Cross responds to emergencies.
They will learn about the complexities of providing basic needs (food, s...
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Justice and Fairness
Published
2009
Type
- PDF
- Website
Price
FREE
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This teaching resource from the British Red Cross allows students aged 14-16 to explore issues of fairness and justice through the lens of international humanitarian law (IHL). It helps students see the bigger picture in conflict situations...
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War is brutal
Published
2008
Type
Image- Teacher's Pack
Price
£9.99
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This pack has four sets of teaching notes exploring conflict and international humanitarian law for secondary schools. In each set an award-winning photo is a stimulus for students to explore an aspect of conflict. Teaching notes comprising six activities look in detail at the photo and at broader themes via discussion, role-play and creative writing. The pictures are all very thought-provoking...
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Newsthink
This free email from the British Red Cross is an excellent resource for teachers wanting to include current affairs within their teaching. The email is sent out every fortnight, and includes three or four news stories, along with ideas for classroom activities.
It is cross-curricular, encompassing PSHE, Citizenship, RE and Geography, as well as History, Science, English, Modern Foreign ...
Subjects
- Assembly,
- Background information,
- Citizenship,
- ESD / global citizenship,
- Local and global citizens,
- Media studies,
- Modern studies,
- PSHE / PSE / PSED
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