World Education Games

UNICEF World Education Games - Uniting the world in learning

UNICEF is proud to partner with the World Education Games between 6 and 8 March 2012.

The World Education Games is a global online event, where students from all around the world are invited to participate against each other in maths, science and spelling games.

Around 5.5 million students from over 200 countries and territories are expected to participate in this exciting online challenge!

World Spelling Day - 6 March 2012
World Maths Day - 7 March 2012
World Science Day - 8 March 2012

How will UNICEF be involved?

As part of the World Education Games, which includes World Spelling Day, World Maths Day and World Science Day, participating schools will be invited to unite together and support UNICEF’s School-In-A-Box program.

UNICEF’s school-in-a-box contains all the essentials a teacher needs to provide an education. The kit can be used to supplement the minimal resources of a school that is already operating or quickly after a disaster, the kit can quickly get children learning again which is crucial to minimising the long term trauma they may suffer.

Providing education to kids like Yolande in Haiti
	Nine-year-old Yolande and her classmates draw in a UNICEF tent school, on the first day of classes. “I will now be able to start learning again.” Yolande said. The school is the first to open in a quake-affected area since the 2010 Haiti disaster... Read more
Providing education to kids like Zulifgar in Pakistan
	In a flood relief camp in Pakistan, located in Sindh province, Zulifgar and his classmates were equipped with small emergency school bags containing books, pencils, sharpeners, erasers and a chalkboard. For many who have never before attended school, this is the first time they have owned such possessions... Read more

What is a School-in-a-box?

Portable and stacked with ready to use basic learning resources, the School-in-a-Box is specially designed for a teacher and up to 80 students. The contents are also developed to be used anywhere, regardless of language or ethnicity.

Some of the contents that one School-in-a-Box contains include; blackboard paint and brush, alphabet and times table poster, world map poster, tape-measure and rolls of tape, wooden cubes, a teaching clock, safety scissors, crayons, pens, pencils, pencil sharpeners and erasers, slates and slate pencils and exercise books.