Climate Change, Climate Justice (Trócaire)
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Link: How its creators describe it
Trócaire is an overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland. The teaching methodologies and classroom activities will enable students to critically examine this issue of climate change through active engagement. Classroom discussion should follow a justice-centred approach. There are four teaching themes: 1. Environmental Values, 2. Climate Change, 3. Climate Justice, and 4. Be a Climate Justice Champion! Each theme has high level information for the teacher’s own learning. Curriculum links and integration suggestions are identified with each activity to support classroom planning.
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“It’s from Trócaire’s climate justice resources: you show the wealth in the world according to the layout the chairs represent. It's a while since I've done it. Chairs represent the people, and then the wealth is put onto different ones. [The students] have to set it out, and kind of balancing it out. And like a number of students have come to me after that and been like, ‘Oh, my God! Things are so unfair. Why is this like brought up so much for them?’ So when they can see it physically, or [with] the maps that show kind of the resource strain. Things like that, they've really connected with.” Dublin-based Primary Educator.
