This site offers free downloadable digital books about various aspects of COVID-19. Many are appropriate for sharing with children.
Teachers
This comic book is based on a radio story that NPR education reporter Cory Turner produced, asking experts what kids might want to know about the new coronavirus.
This is a gentle story written by a teacher and mother of four that helps explain, prepare, and helps prevent the spread of coronavirus. It is appropriate for teachers and parents to help explain the virus and put it into context for young children. Suitable for primary and preschool aged children.
This short video explains how infections enter the body and how the body's antibodies attack them. It then goes on to explain the way vaccinations work, and how important they are in fighting disease. The video also shows statistics of how childhood mortality has decreased since the early 1990s due to the use of vaccines through, among other efforts, the GAVI project.
These spots, written in the form of riddles, are used to help educate school children about malaria in general, the mode of transmission, and bed net utilization.
This one page document provides a summary on the Communication for Health school health intervention which operated by strengthening school clubs and providing support in conducting and celebrating school health days.
This kit is designed to help school health professionals, club leaders and teachers design, implement and monitor health promotion activities within schools through engaging the health system. It includes relevant health issues for school health promotion, tips for supporting school clubs and engaging parents, and potential health promotion activities for schools.
The Monday Campaigns is a non-profit public health initiative associated with Johns Hopkins, Columbia and Syracuse universities that dedicates the first day of every week to health. Every Monday, individuals and the private sector join together to commit to the healthy behaviors that can help end chronic preventable diseases.
This curriculum was developed by the IRC and the Women’s Protection and Empowerment programme to equip adolescent girls with key knowledge and skills to help them to reduce, prevent and respond to gender-based violence (GBV).
This toolkit in Arabic targets trainers to work with 4 groups with exercises in order to:
Increase awareness of the importance of sex and reproductive education for children and adolescents by linking it to the rights of the child
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