A quiz designed to help students understand their own political views. This quiz has four sections - social, cultural, political and economic. There is a guide to scoring answers at the back of the quiz, and a separate guide to interpreting the scores. An example of scoring once points for each section are tallied - Economic Issues: 18 points → Far Left Social Issues: 14 points → Moderate Libertarian Political Issues: 10 points → Centrist Cultural Issues: 7 points → Traditional All scoring is explained in the second attached document. *These questions are designed to cover a broad range of topics, providing an initial understanding of different political beliefs and values. The answers can help students to reflect on where they stand on the political spectrum/compass. To determine an overall political position, you can have students plot their results on a political compass grid (numeracy): X-Axis (Economic): Left (-) to Right (+) Y-Axis (Social): Libertarian (-) to Authoritarian (+) For more nuanced results, you could consider averaging the scores across sections or using a weighted approach if certain issues are more important. It is important to remind students that political beliefs can be complex.

A graphic organiser to facilitate a student-led research task on the Peter McVerry Trust, an Irish charity working for the homeless.

A 64 slide PowerPoint Presentation on the subject of Energy from a geographical perspective. Discusses Natural Resources, renewable and non-renewable energy sources. There are lots of diagrams/illustrations and videos embedded into the ppt. There are also several ‘to-do’/‘homework’ slides which direct the students to their textbook or activity book. We use ‘Geography in Action’ but these slides can be adapted to suit your own class/books.

a 2 page cloze test (fill in the blanks) based on the CSPE concept ‘Law’. Based on Irish curriculum. I use this as an end of unit assessment of key terms. I also use peer-correction with this activity which I find works very well and keeps everyone on task!

A full unit of work on Democracy in Ireland. Includes 8 PPTs. Each PPT has lesson aims at the beginning and to-do/Homework slides that can be amended to suit your class/textbook. Key terms are underlined. Comic Sans font is used in all PPTs to make them more accessible to students presenting with dyslexia. Also included is a key term/definition summary page which can be used to assess the students at the end of the topic.

A cloze test based on the concept of environmental stewardship. Includes all the key words associated with the topic. Good as a homework exercise, recap activity or exam.