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: Pros and Cons of Hydroelectric Power
Learners explore how hydroelectric power works and consider its benefits and problems by comparing a locally-led project in Kenya with a multinational project in Laos.
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.
A Global approach to Sustainability, Workshop, Sep 17th or Sep 19th 2024
This workshop will help teachers to bring a broader global perspective to their teaching and learning. Advice will also be given on the ESD funding available to schools to apply for.
Human Rights Approach to Environmental Issues, Workshop, Dec 8th 2022
An online workshop that supports teachers with how to maintain a human rights approach when exploring environmental issues.
Modern Day Slavery
The abolition of the transatlantic slave trade began 200 years ago, and many schools marked this event. However, new forms of slavery are prevalent today.
Peace keeping
Peace and stability are central to sustainable development.
Conflict and the Global Arms Trade
The world cannot afford war. People cannot stand by while the numbers of war and environmental refugees soar, while poverty spreads like an epidemic and money for education, health, job training and other needed services are stolen to pay for weapons.
Biodiversity
A 2019 UN report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has found that nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history.