Use resources to motivate students to discuss the issues and concerns raised with the Refugee Crisis.
10 resources in this Learning Path
An activity to encourage children to learn about and understand the situation of refugees and the right to seek asylum through a quiz, story and role-play.
View full descriptionStrand: Rights & Responsibilities
Strand unit: Refugees/Asylum Seekers
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.
Key Skills: Communicating Working with Others
A one hour lesson to understand why people become asylum seekers and the difficulties they face on arrival in another country. A human rights education resource on refugees and asylum. For use with young people aged 11-16 exploring Citizenship/CSPE or Geography
View full descriptionStrand: Oral Language
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
Strand: Rights & Responsibilities
Strand unit: Refugees/Asylum Seekers
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
Key Skills: Being Creative Communicating Managing Information and Thinking Working with Others
Many people think of Greek islands as warm, sunny holiday spots. They're also an arrival and destination point for thousands of refugees and vulnerable migrants, travelling from conflict-affected parts of the middle-east and Africa.
What impact will the changing weather have on vulnerable migrants and refugees? How will they cope as the days and nights get colder and wetter? Begin exploration with an evocative photograph, and draw out young people's ideas about migration and coping in adversity.
Strand: Writing
Strand unit: Developing Cognitive Ability through Language
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
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.
Phase match, listening gap fill, reading gap fill, choose correct word, multiple choice, spelling, put text back together, scrambled sentences, discussion, survey, writing and homework activities associated with learning about World Refugee Day - 20th June
View full descriptionStrand: Reading
Suggestions for use: Use the various activities within your lesson to introduce the World Refugee Day to pupils.
Lovely activities included within the Seeking Safety booklet for pupils to learn about Refugee Crisis. An Amnesty International human rights resource on asylum and refugee issues for Primary 3+ classes. This pack supports the teaching of Citizenship in accordance with the values, purposes and principles of a Curriculum for Excellence.
View full descriptionStrand: Oral Language
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).
Strand: Rights & Responsibilities
Strand unit: Refugees/Asylum Seekers
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).
Key Skills: Communicating Managing Information and Thinking Working with Others
The resources included consist of a images of refugees in PPT, lesson plan for activities and a radio interview with a refugee, first aid teaching resources.
*Please note: consideration needs to be given when using this resource due to the nature of the topic in discussion. *
Strand: Rights & Responsibilities
Strand unit: Refugees/Asylum Seekers
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.
Key Skills: Communicating Managing Information and Thinking Staying Well Working with Others Managing Myself
The Positive Images toolkit is an educational resource for teachers, youth workers and other educators to teach young people about migration and development.
The toolkit includes ten innovative educational activities for young people aged 12 and over. It also includes a wealth of activities and case studies of actions, enabling young people through their community to make a difference to global issues.
The toolkit incorporates four short films based on the stories of contemporary migrants and supporting powerpoint presentations.
By the end of the activities young people should:
Have enhanced knowledge of the humanitarian aspect of migration.
Have greater awareness of development and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Have a greater understanding of migration.
Be able to recognise different points of view on migration in the media.
Be better able to relate issues of migration and development
to themselves and their communities.
Be empowered to take action on migration and development.
Strand: Rights & Responsibilities
Strand unit: Refugees/Asylum Seekers
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
Key Skills: Communicating Managing Information and Thinking Staying Well Working with Others Literacy Managing Myself
Pakistan Invisible Refugees is a collection of images of refugees with the story behind the picture.
View full descriptionStrand: Oral Language
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
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.
This is a very interesting comic book story about a boy who is fleeing the conflict. The story itself is suitable to an older audience as reference is made to SPHE topics which a teacher may need to be cautious with. A story of hope, despair, tragedy, sadness and the dream of being saved.
View full descriptionThis resource is for teachers and Into Film club leaders to use to mark Refugee Week, and for stimulus to discuss the hardships and resilience of refugees around the globe raised in the curriculums in England,Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.This resource contains a guide to five films, which have been specially selected to be accessible to learners within the 5-19 age range. The guides include discussion questions and activity ideas to encourage learners to ask and answer questions and reflect on why people seek sanctuary in other countries. (Note; must register to download for free)
View full descriptionStrand: Rights & Responsibilities
Strand unit: Refugees/Asylum Seekers
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.
Key Skills: Communicating Working with Others
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