Animated Learning

Animated Learning is our approach for bringing the power of visual storytelling into educational settings. Here you will find learning and teaching resources based on our animations and comics that cover a variety of themes, subjects and age ranges.

Animated Learning is a collaboration between PositiveNegatives and Lifeworlds Learning.

You can discover more about our Animated Learning pedagogy here.

Aissata’s Story

Age 11+CitizenshipDevelopmentPoliticsRightsSociology

The resource explores FGC - female genital cutting - as a global citizenship and human rights issue that affects everyone.

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Dear Habib

Age 11+BelongingCharacterCitizenshipDevelopmentGeographyMedia studiesMigrationPSHEResilienceRights

These resources support learners and educators to engage with the situation of unaccompanied young people who arrive as asylum seekers in the UK.

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Learning to thrive

Age 7+Climate ChangeEco-AnxietyImaginationOutdoor LearningPhilosophyPlayPSHEResilience

Learning to Thrive explores how caregivers and educators might support young people to thrive amidst growing evidence that they are concerned and even anxious about the uncertainties of our challenging and changing times.

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Ola

Age 14+BelongingCitizenshipMigrationPoliticsPSHERightsSociologyWellbeing

These resources are built around a short animation called ‘There Were Signs’ that shares insights into the lives of undocumented young people in the UK, and the comic series ‘Ola’ which has been viewed nearly 100,000 times on WebToons.

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Refreshing Futures: Clean Water for All

Age 14+CitizenshipDevelopmentGeographyInfrastructurePoliticsRightsSociologyWater

What would happen if you didn't have clean water? These resources explore the challenge of providing clean water for all through research led stories from four countries in the Global South.

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Stories of Migration

Age 11+BelongingDevelopmentDignityGeographyGlobal LearningInequalityJusticeMigrationPhilosophySociology

Stories of Migration explores and challenges dominant narratives of migration and inequality. Using stories from the global south the resource challenges conventional wisdom and seeks to widen learners understanding.

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The Boy with More?

Age 11+BelongingDevelopmentGeographyGlobal LearningInequalityMigrationPhilosophyRightsSociologyWellbeing

The Boy with More provides an insight into life of a Nepali boy whose father is an absent migrant worker. Aimed at learners aged 11+ it provides a rarely glimpsed picture into the world of those left behind by labour migration in the Global South.

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Unstoppable Beat

Age 11+BelongingDevelopmentGeographyGlobal LearningInequalityJusticeMigrationPhilosophyRightsSociologyWellbeing

Unstoppable Beat follows the path of one migrant from a troubled life in Haiti to Brazil and hopes for a better life. Aimed at learners aged 11+ it provides a perspective on what it might be like to risk all that you know in pursuit of a brighter future and on the struggle to turn dreams into realities.

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