WEBSITES

A list of useful websites for teaching about global citizenship.

Resources for GCS Lessons

The following websites contain free resources to use in class lessons:

1 Scoilnet - supports Primary and Post-Primary teachers in sharing and finding useful resources for the classroom.

2 Amnesty - A Human Rights organisation. Below find three educational resources from Amnesty, designed and piloted by practicing primary teachers for use in the primary classroom.

The Right Start for 4 - 8 year olds
Lift Off is for 8 -10 year olds.
Me, You Everyone is for 10+ years More here

3 Trócaire - Educational Resources

4 The Irish Ombudsman for Children - resources for learning about children's rights

5 Unicef Rights Respecting Schools Awards - work with UNICEF to become a rights respecting school

6 Friends of the Earth - campaigns for environmental justice and sustainability

7 DevelopmentEducation.ie - online resource focused on the unequal and unjust nature of the world today

8 Scouts Scotland - Sustainable Development Goals resources and activities

9 Show Racism the Red Card - an anti-racism charity with resources for teachers

10 Irish Aid are significant contributors at home and abroad as they fund the work of many Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in their efforts to strengthen Ireland’s contribution to a sustainable and just world through development education. More can be found here

11 Financial Justice Ireland are a global financial justice organistation

12 Green Schools is an environmental management and award programme working with primary and post-primary schools across Ireland.

Other Useful Sites

Other Organisations with Global Citizenship Education Websites

The Worlds Largest Lesson - be part of the solution.

Worldometre - an amazing real-time world stats site.

National Geographic Kids - educates and inspires the next generation to protect and care for our beautiful planet.

Ireland's Hub for Sustainable Development Goals - fantastic recent official state data concerning Ireland and how we are progressing with each of the Global Goals.

INTO - Irish National Teachers Organisation.