Resources
GCE Learning and Teaching Activities
The active and participatory teaching and learning activities presented here can be used to explore global justice issues. These activities are also available in the WWGS Activities Resource along with ideas for ice-breakers, reflections, closing activities and more, explore the full resource here.
Hover on the cards below for a brief description and click on the activities to access step-by-step instructions in PDF.
Analysing
Images
Use images as a stimulus to raise questions, promote discussion, develop empathy, challenge stereotypes and more.
Concentric Circles
An active discussion where learners both express and listen to views on an issue in pairs.
Consequences Wheel
A tool to focus learners on potential consequences of actions or decisions, drawing attention to the connections between cause and effect.
Diamond
Ranking
Learners prioritise key aspects of a question or issue and justify choices made.
Edward de
Bono’s Thinking Hats
This guided discussion activity helps learners to consider an issue from 6 different viewpoints (hats).
Fishbowl Discussion
A whole group discussion where learners explore an issue in-depth as both listeners and contributors.
Gallery
Walk
In this activity learners move around the room exploring and responding to different texts or images.
Problems and Solutions Tree
Learners identify the root causes and consequences of a global justice issue and then determine possible actions and solutions.
Socratic Questioning
This discussion tool encourages learners to interrogate their own assumptions and to unlearn and reconstruct taken-for-granted perspectives.
Connections
Web
Learners find connections between different questions or issues and explore how causes, effects and actions link with, and impact, each other.
Walking
Debate
As learners share and reflect on the given debate topic, they can change their minds and move positions on the agree-disagree continuum.
Why-Why-Why Chain
Use this activity to break down complex issues and to think about the root causes of global injustices.
World Café
