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UN Matters

The United Nations Matters

This new exciting teaching pack for the secondary level (KS 3) offers an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the United Nations with the aim of developing students’ understanding of the UN system and how it works for peace, development and human rights.

The pack encompasses five lessons:

• The UN: working for us all
• The UN: keeping the peace
• The UN: fighting poverty
• The UN: promoting human rights
• Model United Nations

The pack includes teacher’s notes, lesson plans with curriculum links and student worksheets. Using an interactive approach, students are asked to solve armed conflicts, construct a blueprint for nuclear disarmament and develop awareness-raising campaigns to fight poverty.

The pack was produced by UNESCO Associated Schools in the UK in collaboration with the United Nations Association of the UK. Complimentary hard copies are available on request from Anne Breivik, UK National Coordinator, UNESCO Associated Schools, on abreivik@unesco.org.uk or 020 7766 3460.

Resources

1. Teacher's notes
2. Lesson plans 1-5
3. Student worksheets 1-3 and 4-5
4. Additional lesson resources
   1. UN achievements activity sheet - lesson 1
   2. Millennium Development Goals posters - lesson 3
   3. Human rights 'diamond nine' activity sheet - lesson 4
   4. UDHR (official version) - lesson 4
   5. UDHR (child-friendly version) - lesson 4
   6. CRC (official version) - lesson 4
   7. CRC (child-friendly version) - lesson 4
   8. Security Council country placards
5. Glossary