Teaching materials for teachers about global citizenship. Oxfam.

A downloadable PDF file containing a definition of Education for Global Citizenship, classroom activities, and case studies. Oxfam.

The UN Cyberschoolbus is the online education component of the Global Teaching and Learning Project, whose mission is to promote education about international issues. United Nations.

If the world were a village of 1000 people... Here is simple starting activity for global education teaching unit. The statistics you need for this excercise can be found here.

Human Rights and Equality

A website with links to teaching guides and lesson plans related to human rights. Amnesty International USA.

Begun in 1995, the "All different, All equal" campaign is run by the Council of Europe to foster diversity, human rights and participation. Council of Europe.

A manual to aid educators when introducing human rights education into the classroom. Human Rights Education Associates (HREA).

A website developed by the United Nations where young people can receive information about global issues, communicate with others around the world through a discussion forum, and find ways to get involved in making a difference. This site also has a lot of useful information about global education that can be used by educators. UNICEF.

Refugees and Asylum

A website with a link to two educational packs relating to refugees, one directed towards primary schools and the other for secondary schools. Refugee Week.

International Office of Migration and the UNCHR have produced an inspiring teaching material on immigrant issues to be distributed all around Europe. The target group are young people between 12-18 years. From the web page you can download the teacher's guide in the language of your choice as well as some very interesting short films (10 min) of immigrants' life stories.

Children's Rights

A PDF file containing a guide for teachers to learn more about children's rights and how teaching about rights can be incorporated into different curriculum areas. Save the Children.

This website consists of comics made by West African working children and Finnish children and youth as a collaboration between the African Movement of Working Children and Youth (AMWCY) and Plan Finland. Children's reality exhibition.

Resources for children, youth, educators and parents about media awareness. UNICEF.

Global Music

20 lesson plans that bring Education for Global Citizenship to all areas of Music teaching. Oxfam.

Fair Trade

An online resource for students to learn more about the coffee trade in Colombia. Global Eye.

Oxfam's site for information about Fair Trade. Included are recipes about using fair trade ingredients in baking. Oxfam.

An online resource containing information and activities about globalisation and international trade. Oxfam.

An action guide for becoming a Fair Trade school or university. People & Planet.

Peace Education

A resource for teachers about the theory of peace education as well as activities that incorporate peace education into the curriculum. United Nations.

A collection of pictures by children around the world depicting peace. United Nations.

Every primary, middle, and secondary school (including homeschools) around the world was invited to submit, via e-mail, two lines of poetry about peace to the United Nations. Once collected, the lines were collated together into one long Peace Poem. United Nations.

Students from around the world submitted their vision of a world peace flag and one entry was selected by the judging committee to become an official UN Stamp to represent the International Day of Peace. United Nations.

Millennium Development Goals

The official website of the UN Millennium Development Goals. United Nations.

A website for young people to learn more about the UN Millennium Development Goals. UN Cyber School Bus.

Education for Sustainable Development

Contains classroom activities for teachers to use when teaching about environmental sustainability. Global Footprints.

Oxfam GB's online learning resource on water and change. Oxfam.

Lesson plans for teaching about climate change. Oxfam.

The Sustainable Schools area of TeacherNet is designed to support schools on their journey to sustainability, introducing the principles of sustainable development and offering guidance on how to embed these principles into the heart of school life. TeacherNet.

The site is dedicated to providing on-line supported self study materials for courses in education for sustainability in teacher education. However many of the resources, particularly Units 2, 4 and 5, will be of use to primary and lower secondary trainee teachers and teachers following professional studies and/or curriculum focused studies. University of Edinburgh.

WWF's site for those working to put Education for Sustainable Development at the heart of school life. World Wildlife Fund.