Resource Title
Action on Global Citizenship: Transition Year Unit
Summary
This is the ‘Global Citizenship and Climate Action’ Transition Year unit from Global Action Plan and aims to support transition year teachers to lead climate action with their students, by building students competencies and identities as global citizens. Through exploring the intersection of sustainable development, climate change, poverty and inequality, students will build the knowledge, values, attitudes and skills of active global citizens taking meaningful action on climate change. GAP designed this Transition Unit so it is linked to curricular learning outcomes at Junior Cycle and Senior Cycle so teachers can be confident that it bridges the two levels.
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Description
This Transition Unit is divided into 3 modules: 1) In-class; 2) Action and reflection; 3) Reflection of Assessment
The unit structure is divided into 8 thematic areas that focuses on different dimensions of sustainable development and global citizenship:
- What is development? Introducing basic concepts of development
- How can development be sustainable? Imagining and interrogating the SDGs
- Ecological footprints: Our individual and collective impact on earth
- Climate Change: Facts, feelings and figures
- Global Justice: The power of climate change
- Power and inequality: How climate affects different people differently
- Living with climate change: using water to understand people’s experiences
- Action campaign: Planning and preparing
Each thematic area ends with a suggestion for a mini-action campaign. These campaigns give increasing responsibility and independence to students, in order to prepare them for their action project.
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