Friendship Week Resources

These online resources are linked to activities found in our 2017 Friendship Week Activity Pack. If you would like to sign up for Friendship Week, receive an activity pack and raise funds for Amnesty through the sale of €2 Friendship Week bracelets, click here.

CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES PG 3
• Show the children Carl Sagan’s speech Pale Blue Dot and follow the instructions on page 3 of the Friendship Week Resource Pack.

• Check out a great comic version of this speech here.

POWERFUL QUESTIONS PGS 6-7
• Walking Debate: Download this list of statements to use for a classroom walking debate. Download here.

• Visualisation & Inner Work: Click here for a visualisation script for this exercise.

MORE RESOURCES
• Check out these short films about refugees, recommended by Amnesty International’s human rights education network.

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) lists 30 human rights that belong to all people. You can download a copy of these for your classroom here.

• The United Nations Convention also set up a human rights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. Download a copy of this for your classroom here.