Teaching resource kit for dryland countries: A creative approach to environmental education

This environmental education kit for dryland countries is intended for secondary (and late primary) school teachers and their pupils in countries affected by desertification.
The kit offers a creative approach to environmental education and is designed to arouse pupils's curiosity, appeal to their artistic sensibilities, and provide a leverage for better transmission of scientific information and environmental knowledge.

Free online versions are available in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish.The kit was a UNESCO contribution to the 2006 International Year of Deserts and Desertification. The kit also feeds into activities developed as part of the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), the promotion of which falls within UNESCO's fields of competence.

Keywordsenvironmental education, land degradation, desertification, drylands, knowledge exchange, land degradation