Teaching topic: Cultural diversity: Cross-curricular opportunities

Geography curriculum (SESE curriculum)

• Strand unit: people and places in other areas (human environments)
  • leads to: maps, globes and graphical skills (development of)
• Strand unit: people and other lands

Science curriculum (SESE curriculum)

• Strand unit: myself (living things) - infant and junior classes
  • leads to: recognise and/or measure physical similarities and differences between individuals
    • leads to: accepting difference

History curriculum (SESE curriculum)

• Strand: myself and my family
  • leads to: comparisons of personal and local histories

SPHE curriculum

• Strand unit: developing citizenship
  • leads to: living in the local community (and wider communities)
    • leads to: awareness and appreciation of the diversity of cultures and people in the local community as well as in other places
    • leads to: belonging
• Strand unit: relating to others
  • leads to: communicating
    • listening to the experiences and views of others
    • using language to foster inclusiveness
  • leads to: resolving conflict
    • fostering empathy

"Cross-curricular integration or the thematic approach allows the teacher to cover more content in less time thus reducing the burden of curriculum overload. In fact integration allows the teacher to achieve the impossible, to give the children access to the broad curriculum and all its subject areas. Teachers have the freedom to choose a theme and cover that theme in a cross section of subjects"

- INTO Education Conference 2007