Resource Title
Seeing Our World: a CSPE and Transition Year resource that explores blindness and human rights around the world
Summary
This TY and CSPE resource has been written to encourage discussion and debate on health and human rights through the causes of avoidable blindness, the need for equal opportunities and about people who are blind or visually impaired in the developing world.
It includes easy to-follow activities and action plan projects that aim to encourage discussion and debate in the classroom.
Resource Details
Description
This teacher resource aims to:
- Expose Irish secondary students to the issues, challenges and actions of a non-governmental organisation, Sightsavers, and to reflect on their own attitudes and ideas in relation to our work
- Deepen the level of understanding about the challenges faced by people who are visually impaired in developing countries
- Support secondary school teachers in delivering CSPE and Transition Year classes
- Use human rights education as a platform for exploring the work of Sightsavers on issues such as global health, social exclusion and poverty
- Provide a range of learning exercises across six activities that can be easily adapted to fit CSPE and Transition Year modules
- Give students an opportunity to complete a range of action projects, including taking part in Sightsavers’ Snap a Sight Photo Competition
Available from:
- Download Seeing Our World resource PDF (3.87MB) | 18 pages
- To request a copy of Seeing Our World, order certificates or make enquires email schools@sightsavers.ie
- Visit the Sightsavers schools page for more info https://www.sightsavers.ie/What-You-Can-Do/Secondary-schools-detail-list
Support materials:
- Starter quiz
- Worksheets: fulfilling the right to health and social inclusion: V for victory
- Simplified version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 2 pages
- Slide show: meet Vaisha Rani