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Curriculum Area: CSPE/Citizenship

These notes have been specifically designed to accompany the PowerPoint presentation entitled ‘Face up to Hunger: Lent 2010’. The notes will provide additional background information on the case studies used in the presentation.

A resource on poverty and hunger for CSPE and Citizenship students.

A post-primary resource on the Haiti Earthquake (in Powerpoint file format).

This CSPE/Citizenship resource has been developed for teachers to explore with your students the issue of Aid in the post-primary classroom.  Videos for the resource available here.


This teacher manual accompanies Trócaire's Human Rights education programme 'Pamoja'.


This student workbook accompanies Trócaire's Human Rights programme 'Pamoja'


This is an educational resource for post-primary educators on the conflict in Gaza. It contains information and activities to help you explore the issue with Junior and Senior Cycle students.


This is an educational resource for Primary School educators to explore the issue of conflict in the Middle East. It contains lots of fun activities to use in classrooms. It's ideally suited for Senior Primary children.


This is a short document outlining briefly the history of the conflict in Gaza


The Citizenship/CSPE resource is focused on action and skills.


Download a map for use in the classroom that illustrates populations displaced due to war and conflict zones around the world.


Entitled Creating a Climate for Change,this booklet focuses on the theme of climate change and environmental justice in the developing world.


Chinya is designed to assist you and your students explore development from a global perspective. It is also relevant to the study of CSPE. There are two subjects of focus: the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the country of Malawi.


An educational resource on war & Afghanistan for post primary teachers. Produced after the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington, this resource offers educational activities for the classroom as well as suggestions for CSPE action projects.


This resource explores social and economic injustices and is suitable for CSPE, Religion and Geography.

This booklet focuses on the 2007 Lenten theme of Equal Rights for All and the country profiled is Malawi.

This booklet has been produced for Third to Sixth Class / Primary 4 to Primary 7 and focuses on the 2007 Lenten theme of Equal Rights for All and the country profiled is Malawi.


Entitled URARI - Equality, this booklet focuses on the theme of gender equality.

The theme that runs through this resource is that of Children's rights. The material examines Children’s rights using the case study of Nicaragua.

Trócaire's 2005 post primary Lenten resource focuses on the country of Ethiopia and comes complete with activities, stories and images. Ideal for exploring global issues from a personal perspective.


A CSPE resource from Trócaire exploring the tsunami and the aid response to the disaster.

Entitled 'Rwanda-The Generation after Genocide', this resource focuses on engaging students with the impact of conflict, through the lens of Rwanda. It particularly focuses on the aftermath of the genocide of 1994.

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