UN Human Rights Education

Videos, games, cartoons, podcasts, and a number of interesting tools on Human Rights Education are available to you to discover on this website. It includes among other sections:

- Teach yourself. Students of all ages can use this section to learn about human rights (kids, teenagers, university).

- Teach others. Teachers of Human Rights issues can use these pages to find pedagogical material on human rights (primary, secondary, tertiary).

- Field experiencies.

- Materials.

- Play and learn (a selection of media and other resources covering different themes).

You can also share your experiences about Human Rights Education with people from around the world.

http://www.humanrightseducation.info/

TeachUNICEF

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) works in more than 190 countries and territories to save and improve children’s lives, providing health care and immunizations, clean water and sanitation, nutrition, education, emergency relief and more.

TeachUNICEF is a portfolio of free global education resources. Resources cover grades PK-12, are interdisciplinary (social studies, science, math, English/language arts, foreign/world languages), and align with standards. The lesson plans, stories, and multimedia cover topics ranging from the Millennium Development Goals to Water and Sanitation. 
(Source: http://teachunicef.org/about-us)

The website provides teaching resources by topic, grade and media and engages students in Service Learning.

http://teachunicef.org/ 

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/TeachUNICEF

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TeachUNICEF

Teaching Hunger

As the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against hunger, World Food Programme (WFP) has created a web where you will find a list of resources to help you teach hunger in your classroom. Classroom activities, teachers and students blogs, sites worth seeing, educational links, games, videos, photos, forum, Hunger Map…

For teachers: http://www.wfp.org/students-and-teachers/teachers

International Women's Day

Every year, 8 March is celebrated around the world as International Women's Day. We have planned a program of information and fun for your classroom to celebrate International Women's Day with a focus on women, peace and politics. Have a great learning experience!

Source: http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/womensday/index.asp