Free resource library: Humanitarianism and the Red Cross

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Humanitarianism teaching resources

Syrian Arab Red Crescent volunteers give supplies to a family leaving Lebanon is a black car

Newsthink: Lebanon

Age: 10-19

Type: Quick activities

Subjects: PSHE, Tutor time

Free teaching resource to explore the impact on families displaced and separated by conflict, based on the ongoing conflict in Lebanon. 

Newsthink: Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory

Age: 10-19

Type: Quick activities

Subjects: Tutor time, PSHE

Learn about the rules of war and how they apply to the conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

A thermostat in a window during a blazing hot day.

Newsthink: Heatwaves

Age: 10-19

Type: Quick activity

Subjects: Geography, Tutor time, PSHE

Learn about the impact of heatwaves – in the UK and around the world – with this Newsthink resource. Explore how extreme heat affects individuals and communities.

In South Sudan, a medical team runs with a patient on a stretcher with a Red Cross plane in the background

Newsthink: Refugee week

Age: 10-19

Type: Quick activity

Subjects: PSHE, Tutor time

Learn about the UK’s annual awareness event – Refugee Week – through a humanitarian lens using this Newsthink resource.

Volunteers and Sudanese people gather in a thin material tent

Newsthink: Conflict in Sudan

Age: 10-19

Type: Quick activity

Subjects: Tutor time, PSHE

A teaching resource to explore the current crisis in Sudan through a humanitarian lens. Suitable for the top year of Primary and all of Secondary (10-19 years old)

Celebrating Black History Month UK

Age: 11-18

Type: Quick activity

Subjects: Citizenship

Black History Month takes place every October in the UK. Use this activity with secondary school students to discover some exceptional Black British humanitarians.

Children in a classroom raise their hands.

Talking with children and young people about race and racism

Age: 3-18

Type: Guidance and activities

Subjects: Citizenship

A free primary and secondary teaching resource about how to support and talk to children and young people about race, racism and anti-racism.

Solidarity with Sri Lanka

Age: 11-16

Type: Lesson plan

Subjects: PSHE, Tutor time

This teaching resource explores attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday 2019, and provides a safe space to discuss similar attacks.