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.

Sustainable Fishing

Overfishing is the process of catching too many fish at once, so that the breeding population becomes too depleted to recover.

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

Waste

It is really important that our students understand our global waste systems and the consequences of waste as a broader global justice issue and how the environment, people and the economy are all interlinked.

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.

Food & Growing

We live in a world where over 800 million people go to bed hungry yet we produce 1.5 times enough food to feed people on the planet.