Concern Staff Christina at the Concern Debate Finals. Photo: Ruth Medjber / Concern Worldwide. Concern Staff Christina at the Concern Debate Finals. Photo: Ruth Medjber / Concern Worldwide. Concern Staff Christina at the Concern Debate Finals. Photo: Ruth Medjber / Concern Worldwide.

Concern's Online Classroom

Concern's Online Classroom

We have a large selection of Global Citizenship Education resources which contain activities, information and statistics. These can be adapted for the age group that you are working with.

All resources can be downloaded for free below!

Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals are 17 goals set by the United Nations to work towards a more equal world for everyone. This resource collection contains a booklet for each goal along with easily adaptable activities and information to bring the issues alive for your students.

We also have four of PowerPoints focusing on Climate Action, Gender Equality, Hunger and Poverty which can be downloaded and edited to use with your class along-side the booklets.

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Cocnern's SDG infographic posters have been translated into Irish

Irish Language Resources

Some of our most popular resources are now available to download as Gaeilge for the first time.

  • SDGs - Now available are our SDG infographic posters, SDG cards, and SDG grid poster.
  • Duine Mar Mé - Someone Like Me or Duine Mar Mé and the accompanying teacher's guide. There are also two accompanying downloadable powerpoints, and worksheets- Bangladesh and Liberia, and each story is read as Gaeilge on the PowerPoint.
  • Hunger Heroes – The Hunger Heroes pack has now been translated into Irish for use in primary schools.

Infographic Posters

These infographic posters have been designed for use in the classroom for display purposes and as a teaching aid, full of facts relating to

  • Concern Worldwide
  • Hunger
  • Gender Equality
  • Clean Water and Sanitation
  • Climate Change
Sustainimals Online Game (TU Dublin & Concern Worldwide)
Sustainimals Online Game (TU Dublin and Concern Worldwide)

Sustainimals

We're delighted to bring you our 'Sustainimals' game for primary school students in collaboration with TU Dublin. This WebGL game is a Javascript game that can be played on Chrome, Firefox and all major browsers to some degree. It will work on most but not all mobile devices.

Become a life-saving aid worker in our new video game that takes a fun and innovative approach to tackling serious world issues. 

Come to the assistance of  a community devastated by storm and floods. Complete all the mini games in order to bring them the supplies they need!

Someone Like Me cover
Someone Like Me is an illustrated children's book that tells the stories of children affected by war, natural disaster and extreme poverty.

Someone Like Me

‘Someone Like Me’ is an illustrated children's book that tells the stories of children affected by war, natural disaster and extreme poverty. It’s a great educational resource that allows children to understand global development issues and what life is like for other children around the world. You can now download this for free!

We have also developed new resources to be used alongside the book specifically tailored for senior primary school students. Each folder contains a PowerPoint presentation and an activity sheet.

Concern Active's App to Learn about the SDGs and Concern's Work

Sam looks at Concern Active's new app
Sam looks at Concern Active's new app to learn about the SDGs

Test your knowledge of the Sustainable Development goals and learn about Concerns work in the fight against extreme poverty with our new app!

How much do you know about the Sustainable Development Goals? Our new Concern Active app will test your knowledge and will help bring the SDGs to life by exploring them through the lens of Concern's work with the world's poorest people. 

Hunger Heroes

The Hunger Heroes is a programme for primary schools focusing on the link between food waste and hunger in the world. The resource pack consists of a series of lesson plans, case studies and classroom activities that have been uniquely tailored for senior primary school students (3rd to 6th class pupils) around the theme of Hunger.

Country Fact Files

Our Country Fact Files offer in-depth insights along with timelines and key issues for some of the countries that we operate in. This resource pairs perfectly with the Sustainable Development Goals resource listed previously. 

Scenes from the 2016-2017 Concern Debates Final, The Helix, Dublin. Photo: Ruth Medjber / Concern Worldwide.

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