Educator's Resources

The Canadian Red Cross provides interactive and informative resource material for teachers and groups wishing to learn more about the Red Cross. This material addresses the many issues, challenges and situations we face in Canada and worldwide. Click on the links below for these valuable resources.

Even Wars Have Limits workshops

Various courses and online resources for students and educators.

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Natural Disasters: Exploring the UN-Natural Causes of Vulnerability

The Canadian Red Cross has developed a 75-minute disaster workshop aimed at high school students as well as older participants. This workshop encourages participants to examine the social, economic, environmental and political vulnerabilities of communities facing a disaster. Participants look beyond the consequences of disasters to examine climate change and economic disparity, as well as exploring the UN Millennium Development Goals, obstacles to both development and preparedness and our individual responsibility to be prepared, reduce ecological impact and contribute to solutions.

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Breaking the Poverty-Disease Cycle

Breaking the Poverty- Disease Cycle, a 75-minute Canadian Red Cross workshop aimed at high school students as well as older participants, examines the UN Millennium Development Goals for 2015 and the obstacles and challenges we face in achieving them. Built around a lively and fun board game, the workshop aims to increase participants understanding about what the world is and is not doing in the face of development needs and what Canadians can do to help reverse the cycle of poverty.

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Development Ups & Downs

The Canadian Red Cross has created a development workshop consisting of three 50-minute lessons aimed at youth aged 11-14. Filled with fun, engaging activities, including a board game similar in format to Snakes & Ladders, participants compare the challenges people face in their communities with those in developing countries. Participants explore the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the UN Millennium Development Goals for 2015 aimed at providing a better life for children, their families and their communities and how we can all help achieve them.

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Posted May 6, 2009/Updated May 7, 2010