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Achive Goal Setting Success.com. "Teaching Children Goal Setting." Accessed April 2, 2013. http://www.achieve-goal-setting-success.com/teaching-children-goal-setting.html Grade level: K-5 Description: This website provides the insight into different approaches and resources for goal setting with children. Includes templates for goal setting worksheets and a life planning workbook.

Children and their families around the world face various barriers to fulfilling their rights - particularly in resource-limited settings. UNICEF and its partners work to overcome these challenges. Through this website, we encourage dialogue and co-development to support the successful delivery of end-user driven and innovative services, products and systems.

Stumped by how to teach an abstract concept like empathy to your child? Sesame Street to the rescue! Watch Mark Ruffalo (the famous actor) and Murray (the famous muppet) act it out.

The Last Survivor is an award winning, feature-length documentary film that presents the stories of four Survivors and their struggle to make sense of tragedy by working to educate a new generation, inspire tolerance and spark a civic response to mass atrocity crimes. Following the lives of survivors of four different genocides and mass atrocities - The Holocaust, Rwanda, Darfur, and Congo - The Last Survivor presents a unique opportunity to learn from the lessons and mistakes of our past in order to have a lasting social impact on how we act collectively in the face of similar issues which still exist today.

Philip Thompson's promo video

Philip's Footage from Paper v Plastic pilot

We are a charity called Send a Cow and we work hand in hand with poor families, teaching them the skills they need to leave poverty behind for good. By providing training in sustainable techniques, livestock, seeds and support, we help restore hope and create stronger communities. We also value the importance of making a positive change here as well as in Africa. Helping children become more clued-up and empowering them to change the world that we will leave them is our investment in the future.

Green Education Foundation (GEF) is a national non-profit organization committed to creating a sustainable future through education. GEF aims to identify key factors and impediments influencing sustainability education, evaluate existing approaches, and develop effective educational materials and programs to promote behavior change towards sustainable practices. GEF offers free programs that provide curricula and hands-on activities to inspire K-12 students and teachers to think holistically about global sustainability concerns and solutions.

BRAC is a development organisation dedicated to alleviate poverty by empowering the poor, and helping them to bring about positive changes in their lives by creating opportunities for the poor. Our journey began in 1972 in the newly sovereign Bangladesh, and over the course of our evolution, we have been playing a role of recognising and tackling the many different realities of poverty. We believe that there is no single cause of poverty; hence we attempt tackling poverty on multiple fronts.

Hesperian strives for a world in which people and communities are equipped to achieve health for all. Our mission is to provide information and educational tools that help all people take greater control over their health and work to eliminate the underlying causes of poor health.

A project targets women and young children in an effort to move Burkina Faso towards nutritional independence.

Nutrition in 2 minutes - the challenge of breaking the cycle of hunger is providing food at the right time. The physical and mental impact of malnutrition for under two year olds can be irreversible.

Nutrition in 2 minutes - the challenge of breaking the cycle of hunger is providing food at the right time. The physical and mental impact of malnutrition for under two year olds can be irreversible.

The purpose of these guidelines is to provide practical tools for estimating food and nutritional needs of populations in emergency situations.

UNICEF correspondent Nina Martinek reports on Nigerien community development programmes that are providing food security through cereal banks. Credits: Producer:Nina Martinek

This online course covers basic concepts around the humanitarian system and reform, undernutrition and response in emergencies, individual assessment, and micronutrients.

The National Health Education Standards (NHES) were developed to establish, promote and support health-enhancing behaviors for students in all grade levels-from pre-Kindergarten through grade 12. The NHES provide a framework for teachers, administrators, and policy makers in designing or selecting curricula, allocating instructional resources, and assessing student achievement and progress. Importantly, the standards provide students, families and communities with concrete expectations for health education.

In this animation video from UNICEF brother and sister duo Jack and Ruby explore the Convention on the Rights of the Child and what it means to them.

This video is now blocked by a password. I wonder if/how we can access it...