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.
Fáilte go WWGS 2024/25, Meán Fomhair 12 2024
Tabharfaidh an cheardlann seo breac-chuntas ar chur chuige WWGS, le béim faoi leith ar na 5 Threoirphrionsabal atá forbartha againn mar bhunús den Oideachas Saoránachta Dhomhanda (OSD) uile. Moltar go mór d’aon mhúinteoir a bhfuil baint acu le OSD freastal ar an traenáil seo mar réamhrá nó mar athnuachan.
Doing GCE in Wood Technology, Guide Launch, Mar 12th 2025
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WWGS Teacher Conference, De La Salle Centre, Co Laois, Jan 30th 2025
The 2025 conference will focus on the WWGS’s Guiding Principles of ‘Unlearning and Reconstructing’. Save the date!
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.
Student Conference, De La Salle Centre, Co Laois, Nov 14th 2024
This year, after many years online, we are piloting an in person student conference! We look forward to bringing some Global Citizenship Education (GCE) students together from all over Ireland to learn, share and engage with GCE.