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Friday 23 May 2008 Saving Children's Lives

10 million of the world's poorest and most vulnerable children die each year from preventable diseases. Download Death Detective and Bingo to help your pupils to learn about these issues and then take responsible action.

Monday 31 March 2008 Education in Emergencies: A toolkit for starting and managing a programme

This guide covers the process of emergency education, from setting up a programme to running it on a day-to-day basis.

Monday 31 March 2008 Respect! Exploring children’s rights in the UK and around the world

This teachers' pack for Key Stage 2 uses activities, discussion, stories and poems to look at children's basic rights, in the UK and around the world.

Monday 31 March 2008 Kidactivism: Fill up your head!

An activity funsheet on how children can campaign for a better world

Friday 14 March 2008 The Busy Teacher’s Guide to the World

This guide looks at how you can introduce the global dimension right across the curriculum.

Friday 29 February 2008 Know Your Rights poster

This colourful A3 poster tells children what their rights are under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Tuesday 12 February 2008 End child poverty in the UK

Download this poster of number 11 Downing Street and get your pupils to sign it and send it in

Tuesday 12 February 2008 How to Manage a Household Budget

Teaching resource looking at child poverty in the UK and how families on a low income get by

Friday 1 December 2006 Children's Rights: A teacher's guide

This guide looks at how you can introduce the topic of rights right across the curriculum, and offers ideas for activities.

Monday 18 April 2005 Something to Say: Listening to children

This teaching resource, produced in Northern Ireland, looks at how to develop an anti-bullying culture in primary schools.

Tuesday 1 February 2005 Young Lives, Global Goals: Children, poverty and the UN Millennium Development Goals

A video and activity pack for key stage 3 geography, citizenship and environmental studies, looking at what it means to be poor in four countries - Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam

Sunday 1 August 2004 Children’s Rights: Voice

An illustrated book looking at the right of all children to have a say in how they live their lives.

Sunday 1 August 2004 Children’s Rights: Education

An illustrated book looking at the right of all children to an education.

Sunday 1 August 2004 Children’s Rights: Home

An illustrated book looking at the right of all children to a good and loving home.

Sunday 1 August 2004 Children’s Rights: Safety

An illustrated book looking at the right of all children to live in safety.

Sunday 1 August 2004 Children’s Rights: Health

An illustrated book looking at the right of all children to receive good healthcare.

Friday 30 January 2004 Working Children Worldwide: Child labour and globalisation - a cross-curricular pack for children aged 9-13

This pack enables pupils to investigate children’s work, past and present, through 16 stand-alone activities.

Friday 12 December 2003 Home from Home: A guidance and resource pack for the welcome and inclusion of refugee children and families in school

A resource pack for welcoming and including refugee children and families in school

Sunday 23 March 2003 Participation - Spice it Up! Practical tools for engaging children and young people in planning and consultations

This fun and lively manual provides more than 40 tried-and-tested activities and games to get children and young people involved in the decision-making process.

Monday 1 January 2001 Creative Force: Arts-based exercises for work with young people around issues of violence

These activities use drama, creative writing, poetry and photography to explore different kinds of violence and bullying in young people's lives.

Monday 1 January 2001 Citizens by Right: Citizenship education in primary schools

A practical guide to citizenship in primary schools with examples from four inner city schools.

Monday 1 January 2001 Challenging Transitions: Young people’s views and experiences of growing up

This report brings new evidence to the debate about how contemporary youth policy should be framed.

Saturday 1 January 2000 The School Council: A children’s guide

A colourful step-by-step guide for children on developing and maintaining a school council.

Saturday 1 January 2000 A Fight to Belong: A true story

A story book and teaching pack for KS2 & 3 that looks from a child's viewpoint at a family facing deportation and a local campaign to prevent it.

Friday 1 January 1999 Families Pack: Stories, activities and photographs for approaching citizenship through the theme of families

A teaching pack for KS1&2 that looks at four families - in the UK, the Philippines, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Burkina Faso - from children's viewpoint.

Assembly time on child labour (152KB) PDF

Ideas to create a simple class or school assembly around child labour.

Assembly time on education (213KB) PDF

Ideas to create a simple class or school assembly around education.

'Broken Dreams' assembly ideas (18KB) PDF

An assembly script which looks at the experience of girls for whom a chance to go to school may be just a dream.

Darfur teaching resource (107KB) PDF

Activities designed to highlight life for children growing up surrounded by conflict and ways schools can help.

Get Global pack (2338KB) PDF

A teachers' guide on how to facilitate and assess active global citizenship.

Get Global worksheets (338KB) PDF

Worksheets to accompany the Get Global pack.

Rewrite the Future teaching resource (2046KB) PDF

Classroom activities about children affected by conflict in Sudan and Southern Sudan

Think of me, think of you (1406KB) PDF

An anti-discrimination training resource for young people by young people.

Working children worldwide (282KB) PDF

Citizenship and geography activities about working children.