Teachers' Materials

Games

These games will provide a fun and engaging way to inform the players about the state of education in the world.

Pencil Game

Pencil Game
(330.9 KB PDF)

Pencil Game instructions (34 KB Word doc)

The aim of the game is to get a good education (primary and secondary school) for each person playing the game.

In order to show that you are getting an education you need to make pencils out of paper (template attached). A completed pencil must be cut out of paper, the tips coloured in with a black pen and the words ‘rewrite the future' written on it in red.

The more pencils you make, the greater the level of education you have received:
20 pencils - primary school education for one person
40 pencils - secondary school education for one person
70 pencils - further education for one person
100 pencils - university education for one person

Newspaper Activity

A double-sided A2 sized poster featuring information and news about the Rewrite the Future campaign. Activities are aimed at pupils age 9 -12.

Newspaper (679.2 KB PDF)
School Newspaper on Rewrite the Future from Save the Children

Lesson plan: newspaper brief (41 KB Word doc)
Teachers' notes/introduction of how to use this "newspaper" to start a class discussion.
Activities include:

Getting the class to collect newspaper stories of conflicts over a short period, and then choose a time to analyse them.
Focusing on the pictures that accompany the stories here - what do they see, and how often are children represented?
The next stage of your analysis could look at the actual text of the articles. How many of them talk about the situation with regards to education? Pupils could think about what has been left out of the reports regarding children and why? What are the main issues reported? Do any of the reports look at how children are affected by the conflict situations?