Lesson Plan: Learning from a Double Disease

Lesson Plan: Learning from a Double Disease Strand Five: The Biological World Main Learning Outcome 6: Evaluate how human health is affected by: inherited factors and environmental factors including nutrition; lifestyle choices; examine the role of micro-organisms in human health. Overview Learners investigate the science behind the world’s oldest recorded disease: leprosy. They discover how a team of Irish scientists …

Lesson Plan: Planting Health

In this lesson, learners will explore the importance of plants in medicine, the impact of biodiversity loss globally, and the expertise of Indigenous people in preserving ecosystems.

Tackling Current Issues, Workshop, Dec 4th 2024

This workshop will give the right tools and right ways to educators to approach the crises that society is facing, from climate change to conflict, in a safe and balanced way in the classroom.

We Need to Talk About Fundraising, Workshop, Dec 10th 2024

This workshop is about how we can put fundraising in context and scaffold fundraising activities with teaching and learning, while also offering other ways in which learners can take meaningful action to play their part in changing the world.

Doing GCE in Junior Cycle CSPE, In-person Launch, May 2nd 2024

CSPE Guide Launch WWGS will launch our CSPE guide in the Mary Robinson Centre, Ballina on the 2nd of May from 11.00-2.00. This is a great opportunity to share good practice vis a vis Global Citizenship Education in the CSPE classroom as well as we explore some of the teaching and learning activities in the new guide. Lunch will be …

Peace and Justice, Workshop, Nov 10th 2022

With the increase in military spending due to the war in Ukraine (and let’s face it many other wars happening in the world) there is an increasing need for us to be anti-war and peace agents. This online workshop in collaboration with Afri will bring you (and therefore your students) on a journey from a global overview of war and militarisation to taking meaningful action in your school.