Suggestions for use: Using the accompanying Refugee PowerPoint, show the list of famous names (1 and 2 below). What do all these
people have in common? What single experience have they all shared?
Explain that all of them (and millions and millions of other people) had to leave their countries as refugees. Ask the children for the names of anyone who they can think of, perhaps in their own family, who was a refuge.
Use the activity sheet to guide you with more lesson activities associated with the presentation.

Suggestions for use: Use resources provided in the lesson plan and in the notes to guide you in the planning of your lesson on Refugee Crisis. Resources provided:
• Teacher information sheet
– Suada’s story
• A sample threatening note
– create your own or download
To create your own, draw a skull and a coffin. Cut
letters out of magazines and stick them on the page to make up phrases like: ‘Your
days are numbered...etc . Signed: Friends of the Motherland.’
• Felt tip pens and large sheets of paper for each group

Suggestions for use: Use resources provided in the lesson plan and in the notes to guide you in the planning of your lesson on Refugee Crisis. Resources provided:
• Teacher information sheet
– Suada’s story
• A sample threatening note
– create your own or download
To create your own, draw a skull and a coffin. Cut
letters out of magazines and stick them on the page to make up phrases like: ‘Your
days are numbered...etc . Signed: Friends of the Motherland.’
• Felt tip pens and large sheets of paper for each group

Suggestions for use: Invite the group to imagine a Greek island. What images come to mind? [Warm Mediterranean Sea, the blue skies, the sunshine and the beach.]

Ask young people: who has seen images of refugees and vulnerable migrants arriving on Greek islands? What do they recall? [Encourage them to think about the moment people arrive, some from crowded, inadequate or sinking boats. Many have had a long, dangerous, scary journey that has taken all their money and energy. Some do not survive.]

Give young people a few minutes to create a thought shower showing the different emotions that people might be feeling when they reach the safety of the island.

Discuss what happens after the initial relief of arriving safely. Invite the group to think of the hours and days after arrival. What might individuals and families hope for? What challenges might they face?
Show the photograph.
Use lesson plan to complete all activities.

Suggestions for use: Use the various activities within your lesson to introduce the World Refugee Day to pupils.

Suggestions for use: Eight interactive activities for to enable primary classes to explore asylum in a participatory way. Adaptable individual classroom use (some include relevant preparatory materials).
Use booklet to guide you through your planning on each of the activities. Worksheets provided also;
Activities include - Circle time (Activity 1), Refugees’ contributions (Activity 2) , What’s in a name? (Activity 3) , Common humanity: Potato activity (Activity 4) , Why do people become refugees? (Activity 5), Home is where the heart is (Activity 6) , Matching cards (Activity 7) , Diamond ranking (Activity 8) , Positive action (Activity 9).

Suggestions for use: Eight interactive activities for to enable primary classes to explore asylum in a participatory way. Adaptable individual classroom use (some include relevant preparatory materials).
Use booklet to guide you through your planning on each of the activities. Worksheets provided also;
Activities include - Circle time (Activity 1), Refugees’ contributions (Activity 2) , What’s in a name? (Activity 3) , Common humanity: Potato activity (Activity 4) , Why do people become refugees? (Activity 5), Home is where the heart is (Activity 6) , Matching cards (Activity 7) , Diamond ranking (Activity 8) , Positive action (Activity 9).

Suggestions for use: Begin with a heart-warming picture of migrants being welcomed into Europe. Explore what it says about the humanitarian instinct. Ask what difference kind gestures make to people fleeing their lives and homes.

Move on, using this powerful new material, to help young people think through the journeys of those affected by conflict.

Suggestions for use: 1. Four films. Each film is no more than four minutes long. They are provided to help bring the issues to life, with people’s real experiences of migration. The films are linked to the activities in the educator’s guide, with one film per theme. Prompts of where and how to use the films can be found in each activity. The worksheets in the educator’s guide include transcripts of each film to assist if audio-visual equipment is not available.
2. PowerPoint slides. These accompany each activity and are structured to support each step of the activity. Prompts of where and how to use the PowerPoint slides can be found in each activity

Suggestions for use: Use images to motivate pupils to speak openly about the Refugee crisis. Guide students in creating questions for a class debate. Stick an agree poster on one side of the room and a disagree on the other side of the room. Line students up in the middle of the room. Read out students statements about Refugees and allow pupils to decide their opinions agree/disagree by moving to chosen side of the room. Discuss reasons for opinions. Allow pupils to engage in a productive and constructive debate whereby a focus is placed on everyone has a right to own opinion. There opinion can be changed and if it is, pupils can change the where they stand in the room.

Suggestions for use: Teacher should use video as an analyse for refugee life. Instruct students to create worksheets based on different aspects of the topics included within the film; survival, respect...etc.