Newsthink: teaching current affairs

Topical teaching resources exploring what is happening in the world, and the news, from a humanitarian perspective.

Our Newsthink resources are packed full of ideas for how to help young people learn about current affairs and the world around them with a humanitarian outlook. The resources use real-life examples through film clips, photographs, and stories linked to British current affairs and international news, prompting discussion and developing media literacy and critical thinking.

Browse our media literacy teaching resources and find out more about how to teach current affairs with a humanitarian approach.

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Newsthink teaching resources

Newsthink: Flash floods in Spain

Age: 10 - 19

Type: Quick activities

Subjects: PSHE, Tutor time

Explore how communities are taking action in the aftermath of the floods in Spain.

Syrian Arab Red Crescent volunteers give supplies to a family leaving Lebanon is a black car

Newsthink: Lebanon

Age: 10-19

Type: Quick activities

Subjects: PSHE, Tutor time

Free teaching resource to explore the impact on families displaced and separated by conflict, based on the ongoing conflict in Lebanon. 

Newsthink: Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory

Age: 10-19

Type: Quick activities

Subjects: Tutor time, PSHE

Learn about the rules of war and how they apply to the conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

A thermostat in a window during a blazing hot day.

Newsthink: Heatwaves

Age: 10-19

Type: Quick activity

Subjects: Geography, Tutor time, PSHE

Learn about the impact of heatwaves – in the UK and around the world – with this Newsthink resource. Explore how extreme heat affects individuals and communities.

In South Sudan, a medical team runs with a patient on a stretcher with a Red Cross plane in the background

Newsthink: Refugee week

Age: 10-19

Type: Quick activity

Subjects: PSHE, Tutor time

Learn about the UK’s annual awareness event – Refugee Week – through a humanitarian lens using this Newsthink resource.

Volunteers and Sudanese people gather in a thin material tent

Newsthink: Conflict in Sudan

Age: 10-19

Type: Quick activity

Subjects: Tutor time, PSHE

A teaching resource to explore the current crisis in Sudan through a humanitarian lens. Suitable for the top year of Primary and all of Secondary (10-19 years old)