LESSON PLANS
Pleananna Ceachta
Below you will find lots of lesson plans covering different global citizenship topics for ages 4-12 and 13 plus. More lessons will be added for all age groups so please keep checking back!
Click 'THE GLOBAL GOALS' symbol below to view an introductory lesson to the SDGs.
Click on each of 17 Global Goals for a specific lesson.
These lessons are only the start of what you can do. The lessons below offer some helpful resources, links, prompts, songs, poems and other suggestions. You can easily adapt them to suit your class.
Human Rights Education
This is focused on developing the skills of empathy, communication, cooperation, and conflict resolution. With these skills young children can live the message of human rights in their daily lives and then use these skills to engage fully with knowledge based learning on human rights. These lessons link directly to strands and st rand units of the SPHE curriculum.
This resource focuses on knowledge of human rights issues while also building on the human rights skills. This resource contains ten lesson plans focusing on equality, refugee issues, the role of human rights promoters, needs, wants and rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. There is also an Irish language version of this re source available. This lessons link directly to strands and strand units of the SPHE curriculum.
This resource focuses on knowledge of human rights issues and developing the skills and attitudes acquired from the previous resources. The resource contains ten lesson plans focusing on identity, taking responsibility, child labour, conflict and the role of children’s rights promoters. The lessons link directly to strands and strand units of the SPHE curriculum.
This resource includes a range of lessons with questions, worksheets and teacher's notes. Engaging with the stories through discussion, creative thinking and character exploration can support the development of literacy. Through the familiar medium of storytelling, human rights situations can be explored on a level which children can encounter the real life impact of human rights in practice. To obtain hard copies of Amnesty’s resources contact: hre@amnesty.ie or (01) 8638300.
This programme relaunched by the Immigrant Council of Ireland, aims to harness the high profile of sportspeople to combat racism. The primary school education pack is appropriate for senior classes. There is also a secondary school pack suitable for ages 12/13+ For more resources check out their website.
Children's Rights
Below are links to education packs on Children's Rights from the Ombudsman for Children's Office (OCO).
JI & SI / Ages 4-6
1st to 3rd / Ages 6-9
4th to 6th / Ages 9-12
What Are Children's Rights? A video from the OCO.
Climate/Environment Lessons
This is an active learning programme focused on the themes of environment and interdependence designed for use at individual class levels but also on a whole school basis.
10 Lessons from Trócaire.
This climate change education resource for senior primary classrooms consists of 10 lessons to inspire inquiry, creativity and cooperation. Resources are cross-curricular and include lesson plans, activities, worksheets, photographs, web links and lots more .