Help your students develop social and civic competences by using examples of events in football history.
Learning Activities
A dynamic activity with a mini football match to show students the relationship between foreign policy and football.
Students can explore 19th and 20th century global history through the cultural spread of the game.
Expand the knowledge of your students about migration and its push and pull factors through the example of football.
What if you could teach history through the lens of your local club? This is a ready-to-use lesson plan for history and citizenship educators to help address local social, political and economic history of the early 20th century as well everyday life in that period.
Through examples from football, we can encourage students to think out of the box on complex issues such as equality and inclusion, and ask thought-provoking questions.
Learn about colonialism and migration by tracing the origins of French football players.
Using different perspectives on the right to be forgotten, students investigate in groups the issues that surround privacy and the internet: do people have the right to be forgotten?
What if your students could talk with someone who has been hurt by a football chant, asking them why and analysing the chant with them?
Analyse and connect historical sources to learn about Italian fascism and the history of Europe in late 1930s - early 1940s.
An educational game about dealing with discrimination and confronts young people with their own choices. The players get to react to discrimination and have the choice to either let it happen or do something about it. The game developed by the Anne Frank House is available in several languages.
Teach students about questions of identity, citizenship and multiculturalism by looking at national football teams across Western Europe.
