Website
World Food Programme

Free Rice: Learn About Famous Paintings and Give Free Rice

For Students 9th - 10th
Play this web game and learn about famous paintings and their artists while providing free rice to hungry people around the world through the United Nations World Food Program.
Activity
World Food Programme

Free Rice: Learn French Vocabulary and Give Free Rice

For Students 9th - 10th
Play this web game and learn new French vocabulary words while providing free rice to hungry people around the world through the United Nations World Food Program. There are ten levels of difficulty.
Handout
Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Heritage Edukit: The Middle East (Teacher)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
From the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the Oslo Records, in-depth background information for teachers, including 10 instructional plans, have been included on this website.
Handout
The History Place

The History Place: World War Ii in the Pacific Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a timeline covering the years of 1941 (Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor) to 1945 (United Nations is born). Selected WWII battle photos are also included.
Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Marketplace: Doing Business in Afghanistan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In May 2002, delegates from governments, international companies, and financial institutions met at a United Nations conference in Tehran to discuss the reconstruction of Afghanistan. Afghanistan's officials say that to create a viable...
Interactive
World Food Programme

Free Rice: Learn Italian Vocabulary and Give Free Rice

For Students 9th - 10th
Play this web game and learn new Italian vocabulary words while providing free rice to hungry people around the world through the United Nations World Food Program.
Handout
Other

Human Rights Web: Convention on the Rights of the Child

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Human Rights Web is the United Nations Convention, passed in 1989, which outlines the basic needs and rights of children everywhere.
Primary
University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Human Rights Committee Comments on El Salvador

For Students 9th - 10th
A United Nations document that discusses the human rights violations that took place during El Salvador's Civil War and its concerns about the situation two years after the peace accord was signed. (8 April 1994)
Activity
Other

Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Eleanor Roosevelt

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover Eleanor Roosevelt's work on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the United Nations in 1948. Eleanor Roosevelt viewed the human rights work as her greatest accomplishment. This resource provides...
Article
United Nations

Un: Human Rights Council, Warns That Rights Violations "Will Not Disappear."

For Students 9th - 10th
This 2016 article from the United Nations Human Rights Council chief highlighted the challenges confronting the international community and expressed particular concern over attempts by countries to block human rights scrutiny.
Article
BBC

Bbc: Un Approves North Korean Mission

For Students 9th - 10th
A July 9, 2007 news report detailing the United Nations approval for the return of UN nuclear inspectors to North Korea to observe the closing of a controversial North Korean reactor.
Article
BBC

Bbc: Khmer Rouge Leaders Facing Trial

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of leaders who were involved in the Khmer Rouge government and how they were being brought to justice by the new Cambodian government. The United Nations has said that none of these leaders can be pardoned by the new...
Website
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Srebrenica a Cry From the Grave

For Students 9th - 10th
Story of Srebrenica, Bosnia, the world's first United Nations Safe Area, the site of the worst case of genocide in Europe since World War II.
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit:convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with the General Assembly of the United Nations' "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion...
Primary
American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Hillary Rodham Clinton: u.n. 4th World Conference on Women

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text, audio, and video [19:35] of Hillary Rodham Clinton's address to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women on September 5, 1995, Beijing, China.
Website
Other

Naturdetektive (German)

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource, built in partnership with the United Nations, aims to educate kids and adults about nature. Contains elaborate "themes" on everything from fruit trees to bio-farms. Also provides an archive of the project's previous years...
Unknown Type
World Food Programme

Free Rice: Learn Free Grammar and Give Free Rice

For Students 9th - 10th
Play this web game and learn about grammar while providing free rice to hungry people around the world through the United Nations World Food Program. There are five different levels of play. L.11-12.1 Gram/Usage Conventions
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Wearing Away the Mountains

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Tennessee River Gorge outside Chattanooga is recognized as a protected biosphere reserve by the United Nations due to its immense proportion of species to acres. Understanding the formation of the gorge helps explain why so many...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Problems Facing Internally Displaced Persons Worldwide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use video segments from the PBS series Women, War & Peace, as well as information from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and the United Nations to learn more about internally displaced populations.
Handout
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

Harry S. Truman Library: The U. S. Recognizes Israel: Historical Background

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides the background for why Britain finally turned Palestine over to the United Nations to solve the problem of an Israeli state. Click on hyperlink to access a timeline of events.
Website
Curated OER

National Park Service: Tour of Park Geology: Shoreline Geology

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the National Parks that are located on a coast with this website. Website contains links to the 97 National Parks that include a shoreline.
Website
US Army Center

U.s. Army Center of Military History: United States Army in the Korean War

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a full-length book on the US Army involvement in the first year of the Korean War.
Handout
Scholastic

Scholastic: A Brief History of Women's Rights Movements

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a history of the several movements that advocated for women's rights in voting, politics, and at work.
Website
BBC

Bbc: Is Somalia Next for 'War on Terror'?

For Students 9th - 10th
Analysis of whether or not Somalia will be the next breading ground for new terrorists. Covers what the United States may do but also the response from the new Islamic government. (6/2006)

Other popular searches