World Toilet Day resource guide

About World Toilet Day, from the United Nations and World Health Organisation (WHO)

●UN official website about World Toilet Day with stories about toilets and waste from around the world:

●More information about the World Toilet Day theme, with downloadable factsheet, infographics and stickers: and

●World sanitation, water and health maps:

World Toilet Day collections from Global Dimension

  • Resource collections: water and health.
  • World Toilet Day calendar entry includes aninfographic andarticle,Toilets: We all need to ‘go’, for a wealth of background information, suggestions for approaching this topic in class and more resources.

Action Aid

Water teaching resources for Foundation Phase and Key Stages 2and3 including lessons on water use, clean water and entrepreneurship:

British Council

Emerging Infectious Diseases: How do we stop new diseases spreading? Activity pack for Key Stages 2 and 3 with ideas for pupil investigations in science, geography and PSE:

CAFOD

Water and sanitation teaching activities include:

  • World Toilet Day assembly
  • Life Without Taps simulation game

Geographical Association

Water explorer activities for Key Stages 2 and 3 focused on investigating pupils’ own water use and thinking about the global context:

Oxfam

Water week for schools resources for Key Stages 2 to 4 focusing on investigating the causes of water vulnerability, with opportunities for pupils to take action:

  • Welsh:
  • English:
  • ALN:

Practical Action

Practical Action specialise in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) challenges for Key Stages 2 to 4:

Stop the spread: pupils research infectious diseases, then design and build a model of a school hand-washing device −

  • Water for the world: pupils investigate access to water and build their own water filters −
  • Water harvester challenge: pupils design, make and evaluate a water harvesting system for a school garden −
  • Water and sanitation image gallery:
  • Human resource management: geography activities focused on managing water supply and sanitation −
  • Practical Action technical briefs: water and sanitation, from compost toilets to solar-powered water purification in diagrams and detailed text −

Red Cross

Action for Clean Water resourcesteach pupils about clean water and sanitation over a series of lessons, using video and photo case studies from communities in Kenya:

  • Primary
  • Secondary

RGS/IBG

  • Ask the expert: the water challenge (older pupils and teachers)

Toilet twinning

This is a fund-raising site linked to Tearfund. In return for a donation, you can twin with a specific improved toilet for a family or school:

Send a Cow

Send a Cow has a number of lesson resources and challenges focused on water and sanitation, including ‘Make aTip Tap hand washer’, and ‘Water use on an African farm’:

United Purpose

UP’s Hands Up campaign has three resources designed to get pupils age 7-9 thinking, learning and acting on global sanitation: The Global Toilet Trail,Top Trumps germsand The Secret of Soap (a science experiment), plus a story and song about hand washing by Nigerian star Sunny Neji, and a hand washing competition:

Water Aid

The resources on this site are focused on practical activities about water and sanitation:

  • Water's deadly connection (Key Stage 2): investigating how diseases like cholera are spread in maths and science.
  • Water cycle activities (Key Stage 2).
  • Water aid-facilitated sessions (Key Stages 2 to 4).
  • Assembly plans and fundraising ideas.
  • Big History Project: investigating water supply and sanitation in your local area (Search: Big History Project).

British Toilet Association and World Toilet Organisation

This site is mainly directed at fundraising; the schools resource pack includes some classroom activities including a 20-question quiz and debate:

Support from the GLP-W

GLP-W background reading and resource collection on health and sanitation:

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