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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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Survival island

The notes and activities in the Survival Island kit take the issue of six major natural disasters in the Pacific to the classroom so students can relate to them and learn how to tackle them.

This educational kit was put together under the 'Reducing

Secretariat of the Pacific Community
European Union
Educational materials
Serie protege a tu familia de...

Los folletos e infografías en esta serie han sido elaborados como parte de una campaña de educación comunitaria, destinada a enseñar al hombre a protegerse de los eventos naturales de origen geológico. Fueron concebidos para conmemorar el Trienio del

Cuban Geological Society
Educational materials
Child friendly schools infrastructure, standards and guidelines - Primary and Tronic Common schools

This document developed for the Ministry of Education in Rwanda, outlines the Schools infrastructure standards that are expected to be meet by all Primary and Tronc Common schools in the Republic of Rwanda. Through this document, the Ministry of Education

Rwanda - government
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Teacher's guide to earthquake education

The TWG Teacher's Guide to Earthquake Education is designed to promote earthquake awareness to teachers, students, and school administrators. The guide includes six science activities describing physical processes related to earthquakes, five activities

Teachers Without Borders
ParsQuake: Earthquake Education in the Global Persian Community
Educational materials
Educational kit on natural disaster risk reduction

This Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Educational Kit (NDRR) in Arabic has been developed with the view to enhancing the coping capabilities of disaster prone communities in the Arab States region as well as the dissemination of the technical knowledge in

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Arab States
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
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Promoting preparedness against hazard events through primary education in Haiti

A teacher's manual of classroom activities for K-8 focused on preparedness, response, and mitigation. Activities cover earthquakes, hurricanes, and basic first aid for K-8 students. Many activities are geared for low-resource environments.

Educational materials
Flood snakes and ladders

The game uses real data from our research (quotes, photographs, drawings and 3D models) to explore what it is like to experience and recover from flooding. 

Lancaster University
Educational materials
Let´s prepare with Herman: learning together about natural disasters

This booklet is intended to teach children, aged 8 to 12, about the most common disasters occurring in Romania. It includes information on rules to be applied in the case of disasters, and ways to prepare oneself.

The second part of the booklet contains

Caritas Internationalis