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Educational materials include resources for children and adolescents, such as children's books, textbooks, lesson plans, activities, games, and online resources on disaster prevention and school safety.

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Play and learn to stop disasters: This online game teaches adults and children how to build safer villages and cities against disasters. Users learn through playing how the location and the construction materials of houses make a difference when disasters strike and how early warning systems, evacuation plans and education save lives.

You can also explore the topic guide on games for disaster risk reduction.

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The booklet provides relevant tsunami facts and explains both how to identify a tsunami and how to cope with one.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
COPE Disaster Champions
Cover and source: Practical Action
Educational materials

Who's most at risk? is an exciting role play activity that enables pupils aged 11-18 years to understand some of the key factors that place people around the world at risk from the effects of natural hazards.

Practical Action
Educational materials

These flashcards are meant for facilitators and children in Disaster Risk Reduction clubs.

Save the Children International
Educational materials

Flooding causes and consequences provides ideas for lesson activities together with supporting images, videos and web links suitable for KS1 and 2 students.

The videos contain powerful images of how the lives of some children in developing countries are

Practical Action
Educational materials

Adaptation processes often aim at trying out new strategies for dealing with climate variabilities and change. By requiring two teams to test their ability to respond to a crisis using existing opportunities, this game can support a discussion on seeing

Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre
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"Act to adapt" is a giant board game in which the "community team" has to prioritise vulnerable community resources and take collective or individual actions to protect them from the "hazard team." The game teaches players about the impacts of climate

Plan International (PI)
Philippines Red Cross
Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre
Educational materials

Complex climate messages can often cause more confusion than clarity. This lighthearted exercise can open the space for an exploration of the effectiveness of seasonal forecasts and how to communicate them without oversimplifying the message. Players are

Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre
Educational materials

In "Sinking island," groups are required to stand on a paper, representing an island, while ensuring nobody steps off. Successful groups move onto the next round, where the paper gets progressively smaller to simulate sea level rise. The game requires

Plan International (PI)
Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre