Primary level
The Gender Equality Academy toolkit for the youngest level provides a wide range of educational materials, activities, icebreakers, videos, books, and more for school staff and immediate family to use in the classroom or at home.
The Gender Equality Academy's toolkits are designed to advance Reykjavík City's Education Policy and draw on UNESCO's framework for comprehensive sex education.
Toolkit for the youngest level
Activities and teaching guides
Equality and sex education
- The Week 6 2026 education package features various activities focused on safety and violence for the youngest level.
- The Week 6 2025 education package offers various activities centered on the body and genitals for the youngest level.
- Intersectionality is a teaching booklet published for Children's Human Rights Day.
- Respect for Children's Opinions is a set of teaching guides produced for Children's Human Rights Day.
- 5 Tips for Sexual Health is a staff poster available in multiple languages.
The body
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Safer Touch is a set of teaching guides on talking with children about touch and boundaries.
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Safe or Unsafe? is a set of cut-out images depicting different types of touch, designed to help children distinguish between safe and unsafe contact.
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Safety Card is an activity to help children identify what and who makes them feel safe.
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My Amazing Body is an activity to build a positive body image.
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How Does the Body Work? is an activity and slide presentation covering different parts of the body.
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The Little Monsters and Body Parts is an activity booklet about the body that also practices counting.
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Monsters — Right or Wrong? is a supplementary activity to accompany the booklet.
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Putting a Body Together is a cut-out activity.
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We Come in All Kinds is an activity exploring body parts and descriptive language.
Communication
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Yellow, Red, Green is an activity about communication within groups.
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Feelings — How Are You Doing? is an activity booklet designed to build children's emotional skills.
Queerness
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Am I a Boy or a Girl? is a short story with discussion questions about gender roles and stereotypes.
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"We Are One Family" is an activity that helps children understand different types of families.
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The Genderbread Person is an explanatory illustration clarifying gender identity, gender expression, sex characteristics, and romantic and sexual orientation.
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The Gender Unicorn is an explanatory illustration depicting gender identity, gender expression, sex characteristics, and romantic and emotional orientation.
Inclusion and multiculturalism
- Home Language — Language Weeks is an activity that introduces children to each other's backgrounds.
- Home Culture is an activity that encourages children to share their cultures with one another.
- Story Bag is an activity designed to strengthen the connection between foreign-born parents and the preschool.
Pornography
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Talking to Children About Pornography is a staff guide on how best to approach conversations about pornography with young children if the topic comes up.
Books and teaching materials
Sex education
- "Gender, Sex, and Everything Else" is a comprehensive sex education book that includes teaching guides.
- The Miracle That Is Me is sex education material for children covering the body, gender, feelings, and more.
Children's rights
- "Children's Rights in Rainbow Colors" is a UNICEF coloring book.
- A UNICEF puzzle book about children's rights.
Gender roles
- Super Soft Heroes is a coloring book in which traditional heroes step into new roles.
- Super Strong Princesses is a coloring book in which traditional princesses step into new roles.
Queerness
- "My Family" is a reading book highlighting diverse family structures.
- "Askur and the Princess" is a reading book chronicling the unconventional adventure of a boy in traditional costume.
- "Julian Is a Mermaid" is a reading book following a boy who dreams of becoming a mermaid.
- "Be Yourself" is a book celebrating diversity and the importance of embracing your true identity.
- When Rósa Was Ragnar / When Friðrik Was Fríða is a reading book examining gender roles and equality.
- The Princes and the Treasure is a reading book detailing the journey of two princes setting out to rescue a princess.
Gender roles and role models
- The Courageous Hero is a reading book about a prince with old-fashioned ideas about gender who learns to find his footing in a new world.
- I Dare! I Can! I Want! is a reading book about the women's rights movement in Iceland.
- Wonderfully Extraordinary Women Who Changed the World is a reading book about women who made their mark.
- Sipp, Sippsippanipp and Sippsippanippsippsúrumsipp is a reading book about young princesses making their way in the world.
- Vigdís: The book about the first female president introduces a new generation to Vigdís Finnbogadóttir.
Online courses and cartoons
Sex education
- From Taboo to Trust — Sex Education for Young Children is the first part of an online course for staff and parents.
- From Taboo to Trust — Children's Sexual Behavior is the second part of an online course for staff and parents.
- From Taboo to Trust — Tips for Effective Education is the third part of an online course for staff and parents.
- From Taboo to Trust — Educational Materials and Tools is the fourth part of an online course for staff and parents.
- From Taboo to Trust — Sexual Abuse of Children is the fifth and final part of an online course for staff and parents.
- "I Know" is a video series from Stopp ofbeldi (Stop Violence).
Equality
- "UN Sustainable Development Goals — Gender Equality" is a video from RÚV.
- Better to Speak Than Stay Silent is a UNICEF cybersecurity video.
- "Children Step Forward" is a UNICEF video highlighting children's opinions and rights.
LGBT+ story characters
- The Bravest Knight is an illustrated story about a knight who goes on various adventures.
- Rósalín is an illustrated story about a young woman who forges her own path.
Games
Equality
- The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is a Kahoot game published by UNICEF.
- Right Runner is an English-language computer game focused on children's rights, published by UNICEF.
Websites
- "Girls' Puberty" is a webpage maintained by nurses.
- Stronger Into Life is an educational website with a range of resources to support children's self-image.