Teaching Resources

2 hours

15 - 16

Promotion of EU citizenship, EU and democratic values and human rights

computer or smart phone to produce the video

Self-awareness
Empathy
Internal motivation
Social skills

Students discover the values of the European Union. What does the European Union bring to the students? What is the motto of the EU? Do they share the founding values of the EU?

Strengths:
- Development of self-awareness through the values of the EU
- Reinforcement of the sense of belonging to the EU which develops internal motivation
- Interaction and free expression of each pupil
- Development of creative, communicative/digital and social skills

Weaknesses:
- Some students may have difficulties to transfer these principles to their daily lives

1- Students first express their ideas about what they believe are the important values of the EU? (20 minutes)

2- Students collectively play the 12 differences game to discover what the EU values are: https://www.les12differences.eu/fr/home/1 (30 minutes).

3- The students must show how the EU motto "United in diversity" illustrates the notion of empathy and its central place among the values of Europe.
Their mission is to create a short video around this motto.
(60 minutes)

4 -At home, they can also illustrate it with a visual illustration

The teacher can assess the videos and the interactions between the students to highlight that they understand the notions of unity and diversity