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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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This comic book targeted at ten to fourteen year old children. It can be used as a reference book by student in middle schools from the countries of Bhutan, Nepal and Pakistan. The book is accompanied by a Teacher's Guide.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Educational materials

This booklet is a guide for children which explains, in a narrative way, what a flood, flash flood are, their various intensities and frequencies, the water cycle, their more or less dangerous aspects. Precautions to take against disaster also feature at

Croissant Rouge Marocain
Educational materials

This booklet is a guide for children that deals in a narrative way, with the earthquake problem. It gives definitions of: earthquake, magnitude, epicenter, furnace, fault, plate tectonics, waves, after-shock, seismograms, Richter and Mercalli scales

Croissant Rouge Marocain
Educational materials

This booklet for children explains what necessary action should be taken in the event of an earthquake. The first part gives some measures to be taken before an earthquake, whether at home, on a street or at school. The second part explains what measures

Croissant-Rouge Algérien
Educational materials

This booklet for children explains what necessary action should be taken when they are confronted with earthquakes. The first part gives some measures to be taken before an earthquake, whether at home, on a street and at school. The second part explains

Croissant-Rouge Algérien
Educational materials

This booklet for children explains what necessary action should be taken when they are confronted with earthquakes. The first part gives some measures to be taken before an earthquake. The second part explains what measures to take during an earthquake

Croissant-Rouge Algérien
Educational materials

This book is a tale of a girl who must save her little brother. Its different chapters feature a lesson: the Earth's movements, earthquakes and their impact, tsunamis, as illustrated by the case of Japan, volcanoes with a definition of the various types

Nathan
Educational materials

This book is essentially a geological description of the solar system and of the Earth's functioning. It's fifth chapter focuses on natural phenomena that occur on the Earth, mainly geological disasters: earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes. It gives a

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)