Age Group:
Junior Cycle / Senior Cycle / Transition Year
Themes:
- fast fashion/
- Food Security/
Subjects:
- Biology/
- Home Economics/
Event Date
January 12, 2019
Event Time
Location
Home Economics and Global Citizenship Education
On the 12th of January WWGS did a training for Home Economics teachers, please find below all the resources and the recording:
Full recording of Home Ec CPD: https://youtu.be/_rSMw1h8ZS0
The powerpoint presentation used:
We created a jam board of ideas that you can continue to populate and access: https://jamboard.google.com/d/1tmTFXDWNyYQM6mwvL4kDOBNbPBgUkM5UMRy6QUUXDlM/edit?usp=sharing
Home Ec/GCE Resources
WWGS Doing DE in Home Economics Junior Cycle: FINAL WEB WWGS_DoingDE_HomeEc-2020-ip4
Relevant thematic sheets to Home Economics connected with the Global Goals: (all of these sheets can be found at https://www.worldwiseschools.ie/resource-library2/
Food and Growing: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t_g1Thudu6EGdugXZA77e77k353fAfNS/view
Fast Fashion: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ty1gL1Vgj2MwDhU7YLQf_oVWV9eLb4a-/view
Waste: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13H8CzGsM7CulEqE-7FGmddLh8v6oc1dP/view
Direct Provision: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H1NN4oAxAfKWcgCQ9dymQSAGhyt37cFS/view
Other Home Ec guidance notes:
Resources relevant to Home Economics:
Cross curricular resource-Beyond the Symbols:
Beyond_the_Symbols_Post_Primary
Textiles:
Aisling Collins of Goat Community School has some recommendations:
‘Irish Wook and Fibre Crafters in Ardrahan. This is an incredible local community craft industry focusing on wet and dry felting, spinning, weaving and all the wool fibre crafts using only local wools’.
WASTE:
Waste-supermarket-plastic-activity-kit-final
FOOD:
Oxfam resources on Food and Nutrition:
https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/handle/10546/620570
Behind the Barcodes although UK based gives good information and ideas for taking action:
https://oxfamapps.org.uk/behindthebarcodes/schools/
Simulation Games on Food:
APCE_food-farming-justice-la-via-campesina-role-play
Recording and Powerpoint of Home Ec CPD presented by Aishling McGrath to St Angela’s College, Sligo in October 2020:
Home Ec CPD for St Angelas College students