This workshop aims to equip educators with practical strategies and tools to address and respond to microaggressions and racial prejudice in the classroom.
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 In this lesson, available in both Irish and English, learners investigate the science behind the world’s oldest recorded disease: leprosy. …
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.
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.
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.
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.
Resource Extraction
Countries that are rich in natural resources are often poor and suffer from high rates of inequality, corruption, human rights abuse, and environmental degradation.
Sustainable Fishing
Overfishing is the process of catching too many fish at once, so that the breeding population becomes too depleted to recover.
Marine Pollution
Our oceans have become our dumpsters. Marine pollution threatens the health of our coasts and ocean and it comes in many different forms.
Climate Justice
Climate Justice is the reality that it is those that contribute least to climate change (through their emissions) are the ones that are impacted first and worst
The Circular Economy
The circular economy is a process of minimising waste and making the most out of finite resources to achieve sustainable development.
Access to Markets and Industry
Goal 9 focuses on making sure that industries and infrastructure is future-proofed and responsive to the needs of people, giving people the tools to find long term solutions to problems.
Child Labour
For tens of millions of children around the world, their basic rights are at risk because they have to work.
Energy and Human Rights
There is a clear link between reducing the use of fossil fuels and the effects of climate change that our planet and its people will experience in the future.
Water Conflict
The conflict over water relates to the gap between demand and supply. Add in climate change, the geopolitics of water transfers and pressures from population increase and the problem becomes only too obvious.