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Find lesson plans and classroom activities for working in the classroom with issues around the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Global Goals and other important issues.

Below and elsewhere on this site, please botanize amongst some of our vast resources for classroom learning about global issues. All activities have been tried and tested by teachers and pupils around the world.

The WCP Classroom website contains materials and teacher guides, problem based learning lesson plans, as well as creative activities and simulations.

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Recount and listen
To understand a story in-depth, it sometimes takes a little more work!.
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You me Equal Rights
Inspiration from stories about children’s collective struggle for gender equality.
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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
Harness the enthusiasm generated by the WCP Program and enable participants to discover how they themselves can make a difference.
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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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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.
Hand parting blinds
Windows with views
Stories about vulnerable children and Child Rights Heroes reflect many violations of children’s rights, but also proven solutions.
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.
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.
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Thinking exercise about the Global Goals
How can the world achieve the Global Goals by the year 2030?.
Footprints in sand.
Can you change your footprint?
The personal impact of each person on the planet is usually referred to as their ecological footprint.
Roleplaying
Role Play
Use role play as a way of illustrating your experiences through stories.
The Child Jury standing together outside
One child, several rights
A creative collage exercise that highlights the reality behind the articles of the UNCRC through children’s own life experiences.
Phulmaya, a girl from Nepal, casts her vote
Run an Election Campaign
Run your own election campaign and find ways of sharing knowledge about the various Child Rights Heroes who are candidates in the Global Vote.
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Scrap creations
It is possible to create beautiful, fun and useful items using scrap.
Boys walking with signs along highway in dry African landscape.
Create effective communication
Let your students try different ways of formulating messages, and find out what is most effective.
Asfaw Yemiru.
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.
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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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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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A day in the life
What does your day look like compared with children in other countries and environments?.
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The Problem Tree
Identify causes, effects and solutions linked to various challenges and problems .
Girls talking in Nepal
What does it mean?
A method that helps pupils improve at understanding text.
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Rights & responsibilities
It’s important to know one’s own rights to be able to respect the rights of others.
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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.
Girl in black shawl.
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.
Two small boys and a man in a fishing boat
Problem tree about slavery
Identify causes, effects and solutions linked to modern day slavery - children being exploited as slave labour, sometimes as debt slaves.
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Litter timeline
Does litter that ends up on the ground disappear after a while, or does it hang around for 1 year or maybe 100 years?.
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.
Children in Gambia discussing
Help from the expert groups
A method built on cooperation and support from friends.
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Covid-19 & Child Rights
A newly discovered virus is making a lot of people sick.
Children collecting litter
Litter Survey
Go out and conduct a litter survey with your students.
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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.
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Climate Action
Study the science behind rising temperatures and why climate change is happening, largely caused by our way of producing and consuming goods and energy.
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Talking Chips
Talking chips as a method provides a structure for group dialogue, conversations and discussions that helps pupils express themselves and participate on equal terms.
Hands writing and drawing
The Global Trip
Divide your class into teams of reporters and have them go on simulated journeys around the world.
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