Europe@school: Active lessons about the European Union

The "Europe@school" teaching material has been developed to provide teaching materials about European parliamentary democracy and European values to schools participating in the “European Parliament Ambassador School” programme.
It has a modular structure, with ready-to-use presentations and active working methods that directly involve the students in European democracy. This pack aims to give students a basic understanding of how the European Union and the European Parliament work. Active working methods, simulation exercises, active games about the EU, internet exercises are the ingredients for your lessons.

Module 1: Are you aware?
The aim of the first module is quite simple: to make students who are not yet interested in and have no knowledge about the EU, EU values and current EU issues aware of the existence of the EU and of the importance of being informed about the EU.

Module 2: Get to know the EU
The second module aims to inform students thoroughly and in an enthusiastic way about the EU and its values.

Module 3: Practice your democratic skills
The emphasis is on practicing the democratic skills of students.
This includes discussion skills, learning to compromise and recognizing correct information

Module 4: Your voice in the EU
The emphasis is on how the students can actively participate as citizens in the EU and make their voices heard.