Care of the Earth, Our Common Home
Added: 29 Nov 2016
Contributor:
Clare Quigley
Resource type:
Audio / Video
A four minute animation for children based on a letter from Pope Francis about caring for Earth and showing his vision for a better world. Animation introduces topics such as climate change, deforestation and pollution as well as ideas for how to improve our world. Website includes a link to resources to use with the animation, including teachers notes and lesson plan, a powerpoint presentation, animation script and colouring worksheet.
How it maps to the curriculum
Strand: Useful Websites
Suggestions for use: This video could be used as part of a religion lesson during a topic on climate change, waste or the environment. It links directly with SESE and SPHE learning objectives on the same topics.
Strand: Useful Websites
Suggestions for use: This video could be used as part of a religion lesson during a topic on climate change, waste or the environment. It links directly with SESE and SPHE learning objectives on the same topics.
Strand: Environ. Awareness & Care
Strand unit: Caring for the environment
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- identify and discuss a local, national or global environmental issue
- realise that there is a personal and community responsibility for taking care of and conserving environments
Strand: Environ. Awareness & Care
Strand unit: Caring for the environment
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- come to appreciate individual, community and national responsibility for environmental care
- identify and discuss a local, national or global environmental issue
Strand: Environ. Awareness & Care
Strand unit: Caring for the environment
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- identify and discuss a local, national or global environmental issue
- realise that there is a personal and community responsibility for taking care of the environment
Strand: Environ. Awareness & Care
Strand unit: Caring for the environment
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- come to appreciate individual, community and national responsibility for environmental care
- identify and discuss a local, national or global environmental issue
Strand: Myself & the Wider World
Strand unit: Developing citizenship
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- appreciate and respect the environment and learn that there is an individual and community responsibility in caring for the environment and protecting it for future generations
- recognise how each person has both an individual and a communal responsibility to the community
Strand: Myself & the Wider World
Strand unit: Developing citizenship
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- appreciate the environment and develop a sense of individual and community responsibility for caring for the environment and being custodians of the Earth for future generations
