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Climate Dictionary

26/03/2024

Climate change is the defining issue of our times. Every day, more and more people are getting involved in climate action.

That’s why the United Nations Development Programme prepared this resource of climate change terms and concepts. If you’re struggling to keep up with the climate conversation, the Climate Dictionary is for you.
Climate Action Heroes

01/07/2022

Climate change is a menace to our world.

Our climate action heroes are making the world a better place by using their knowledge and skills.

Our league of superheroes is taking action now and they want YOU to join them!
The World's Largest Lesson

02/04/2016

World’s Largest Lesson promotes use of the Sustainable Development Goals in learning so that children can contribute to a better future for all.

From citizenship and justice to climate change and the environment, inspire children to make a difference!

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen, can change the world." These are our most powerful weapons. That's what Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl targeted for assassination by the Taliban for campaigning for the right to education said when she came to the United Nations in June 2013.

For teachers who want to teach their students about the work and goals of the United Nations we have several useful teaching resources available on the following topics: Peace & Security, Development, Human Rights, Humanitarian Affairs, and International Law.

Tours for students at the UN in Vienna

Visit the UN in Vienna with students

UN in General (UNIS Website)
Teach the UN - numerous teaching resources on a range of UN topics specifically tailored for educators and students
Teachers Handbook by UNA-UK (pdf) (Background Info)
United Nations at a Glance (Background Info)
Basic Facts about the United Nations (Background Info)
Organigram of the United Nations System (Background Info)
70 Ways the United Nations Makes a Difference (Background Info)

Videos

UNIS Offers

Women (UNIS Website)
UNITE - to end violence against women and girls (Background Information)

Free Rice 2.0 (Game)
WFP - Zero Hunger
The Right to Food: A Window to the World (FAO) (Comic)
The Right to Food: A Window to the World (FAO) (Resource and Activity Guide)

Refugees and Migration (UNIS Website)
UNHCR: Teaching about refugees
Not just numbers: Toolkit for teaching young people about Migration and Asylum in the European Union (Teaching Material)
Passages (Game)
Against All Odds (Game)

STOP Disasters (UN/ISDR) (Game)

Peace and Security (UNIS Website)
Tugire Ubumwe: Lessons from the Rwandan Genocide (Comic)
UNODA: Disarmament education (Online courses)
UNODA: #Intro2Disarmament video series

External Links*

Your Future in Green Jobs (Online course offered by the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens)

WTO distance learning (Online Course)

Sustainable Development Goals (UNIS Website)
"Go-Goals" - SDG board game for children
Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future (Teaching Material)
World's Largest Lesson (Teaching material)
Thomas and Friends SDG campaign
Sustainable Development Goals - (Teaching catalogue PDF)
TED-Ed: Earth School
SDG App: SDG in action
UNIS: Virtual #GlobalGoals Tours (Videos)
UNICEF: 'My Hero is You' (Storybook on COVID-19)

Humanitarian Affairs (UNIS Website)

Climate Change (UNIS Website)
Climate Action Superheroes (Activities for kids)
Climate Dictionary (UNDP)

External Links*

Your Future in Green Jobs (Online course offered by the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens)

Water (UNESCO Teaching Material)
Danube Box (ICPDR Media set)

Living on less than $2 (Teaching Material)

Human Rights (UNIS Website)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Human Rights (Teaching Catalogue PDF)
Kahoot Quiz: Human Rights Day 2021 - All Human, All Equal

External Links*

The online Human Rights Guide was created by the Baltic Human Rights Society in Latvia. It was launched in Slovakia and Slovenia in 2021.

External Links*

Lessons Plan Child Soldiers by British Red Cross (Teaching Material)
A Long Way Gone - Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (Book)

UNODC Education for Justice
Child protection from violence, exploitation and abuse (Multimedia)

Child Rights Education Toolkit (UNICEF) (Teaching Material)
UNICEF Thinking Rights primary school pack (Teaching Material)
"Wants and Needs " Project (Teaching Material)
"Linking Rights" (Teaching Material)
"Planning for Action" (Teaching Material)
Bringing Childrens Rights Alive (Teaching Material)

External Links*

Comic - Against Racism: "Tugire Ubumwe - Let's Unite!" Lessons from Rwanda (Comic)

International Law (UNIS Website)

*Links to external websites are provided for information only. UNIS Vienna is not responsible for the content of these websites and linking to them does not constitute an endorsement by the United Nations.

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Teaching Resources

Featured

Climate Dictionary

Climate Action Heroes

The World's Largest Lesson

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen, can change the world." These are our most powerful weapons. That's what Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl targeted for assassination by the Taliban for campaigning for the right to education said when she came to the United Nations in June 2013.

For teachers who want to teach their students about the work and goals of the United Nations we have several useful teaching resources available on the following topics: Peace & Security, Development, Human Rights, Humanitarian Affairs, and International Law.

Tours for students at the UN in Vienna

UN in General

Videos

UNIS Offers

Women

Hunger

Refugees

Natural Disasters

Peace & Security

Economic Growth and Employment

External Links*

Trade

Sustainable Development

Humanitarian Affairs

Climate Action

External Links*

Water

Poverty

Human Rights

External Links*

Holocaust

Child Soldiers

External Links*

Human Trafficking

Children Rights

External Links*

Racism

International Law

THE UN IN GENERAL

THE UN IN VIENNA

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