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Thinking exercise about the Global Goals

How can the world achieve the Global Goals by the year 2030?

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Action Cards

Harness the enthusiasm generated by the WCP Program and enable participants to discover how they themselves can make a difference.

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First encounter with the Rights of the Child

What is the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child about, and what does it mean if a country has ratified it – pledged to follow it?

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Action cards with inspiration

Let the students be inspired by WCP Child Rights Heroes and then harness the enthusiasm generated to enable them to discover how they themselves can make a difference.

Person holding sign with text !ECO not EGO!.

Speed-dating om livsstilsfrågor

Sverige är ett av de länder i världen som har allra störst påverkan på naturen per person. Vi lever upp resurser betydligt snabbare än vad jorden klarar av. Det krävs stora förändringar i livsstil och konsumtion, på individuell, nationell och global nivå om vi och världen ska kunna nå de globala målen till 2030.

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Scrap creations

It is possible to create beautiful, fun and useful items using scrap. Working with colours and shades, recycling, decorating and reusing!

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Children’s rights and the Global Goals

Discover the connection between the articles of the UNCRC and various Global Goals and targets.

Child running in Ferenetari neighhbourhood

Breaking the cycle of poverty

The Global Goals for Sustainable Development, which partly aim to eradicate poverty, cannot be achieved unless children’s rights are respected.

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Rights & responsibilities

It’s important to know one’s own rights to be able to respect the rights of others. How are children treated in your local community?

Glory sits at desk, studying, with her diploma

If I were a Child Rights Ambassador

Children and young people in some of the poorest and most violent countries in the world are being trained to be WCP Child Rights Ambassadors. How would your pupils carry out the job of being an ambassador?

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Windows with views

Stories about vulnerable children and Child Rights Heroes reflect many violations of children’s rights, but also proven solutions. Work individually at first, then take a combined approach and choose the best solution together as a group.

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You me Equal Rights

Inspiration from stories about children’s collective struggle for gender equality.

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Role Play

Use role play as a way of illustrating your experiences through stories.

Plastic trash on beach

Talk litter

Littering is one of several kinds of pollution that are contaminating the environment in the air and on the ground, and it affects everything from our health to the climate.

Children in line holding signs

The Opinion Line on gender equality

How equal are we in our class and school? Find out using a classic exercise.

Martin Luther King waving to a crowd

Follow the timeline

Begin with the timeline of the history of democracy and then look at the parallel trend in your country or in an entire region or continent.

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A day in the life

What does your day look like compared with children in other countries and environments?

Bwami and his mum outside their house

Chains of Cause and Effect

What are the causes of the problems and challenges that the Child Rights Heroes are trying to solve? A whole class task, in which everyone helps identify causes in a discussion about how different factors can combine and create negative chains of cause and effect.

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The Problem Tree

Identify causes, effects and solutions linked to various challenges and problems

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The Global Goals and you

Children’s own accounts of their lives in and around the Peace Parks in southern Africa provide inspiration and facts for an exercise about our future.

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Make a Peep Box or diaorama

Explore the lives of a child, a family, or one of the WCP Child Rights Heroes, and make it come alive in a Peep Box or diorama.

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Girls’ rights under attack in Afghanistan

As girls and women in Afghanistan fear for their future under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, use this activity to identify causes, effects and solutions linked to violations of girls’ rights in fragile states.

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The Global Trip

Divide your class into teams of reporters and have them go on simulated journeys around the world. Their mission: to report on the rights of the child and the heroes that fight for children.

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The World’s Children’s Prize Program

Here you will learn everything about the World’s Children’s Prize program (WCP), step by step, with suggestions for materials to use, lesson plans, exercises, and activities.The WCP Program is one of the world’s largest annual education initiatives, empowering children to become changemakers.

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A day in the youth center, Colombia

Dayana lived for a long time on the streets, but now she has a safe haven.

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A school exercise on the situation of girls in Afghanistan since the Taliban regained power in the country. Students examine causes, effects and solutions linked to violations of girls' rights.

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Break the cycle of poverty, with cards.

Highlighting the factors that are affected by poverty, allowing discussion and reflection on how to tackle poverty.

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24 hours in a children’s ‘jail’

In a special unit at a youth detention center in California, around 40 boys are housed in one-man cells.

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History of democracy

A timeline of democratic development.

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How are the worlds children

All countries that have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child have promised to respect the rights of the child. Yet still, violations of these rights are common in all countries.

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A day in the life on a street corner in India

Sangheeta has lived all her life on the same street stump. Her mother was also born here, almost 40 years ago.

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The WCP Program Basics (PPT)

Use this presentation to introduce the different steps of the WCP program.

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A day in the life in the wilderness

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Child Rights & Girls’ Rights introduction (PPT)

Use this presentation in the classroom to introduce basic facts about Child Rights and Girls’ Rights.

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