Age Group:
Junior Cycle / Senior Cycle / Transition Year
Themes:
- CPD/
- Global Citizenship Education/
- Global Justice/
- School Gardens/
Subjects:
- Agricultural Science/
- Citizenship/
- CSPE/
- English/
- Geography/
- Home Economics/
- LCA/
- Politics and Society/
- Wellbeing/
- WWGS Global Citizenship Education/
Event Date
November 18, 2021
Event Time
Location
School Gardens and Global Justice CPD
This workshop is for school with a garden or growing project. The workshop covers how to use the garden as a GCE (Global Citizenship Education) educational tool and link it closely with global justice themes. This workshop gives you helpful ideas and materials for teaching and learning.
Workshop Resources
Video recording
Access the full recording here.
Please note – the webinar played one video in which the volume is altered – you will need to adjust the volume upwards for this section ( – )
Presentations
Please find the WWGS Power Point presentation: School Gardens And GCE
Please find the Síolta Chroí Power Point presentation: WWGS Teachers garden session
Thematic information sheet – coming soon…
Other resources/helpful links mentioned:
Projects
- Síolta Chroí Website
- All Ireland Pollinator Plan
- Restorify – Crowd Funding for Trees
- Change X – Community Orchard
- Incredible Edible – Community project
- Stepping Stone Forrests
- Seed Suppliers: Irish Seed Savers, Brown Envelope Seeds, The Organic Centre
Videos
- Regreening the Dessert Documentary
- Kiss the Ground – Page includes a link to free 45 min educational version
Books
- The Permaculture Student 2 – Free downloadable book