Activities
Bring Europe to life in your classroom
Explore a growing collection of classroom activities — from short games and quizzes to full European simulations. All resources are free, editable, and ready to use. You can filter by age, duration, type, or equipment to find exactly what fits your lesson plan. Each activity can be used on its own or as a complement to a Key to the EU lesson.
Competences for Democratic Culture
Each lesson and activity supports the development of Competences for Democratic Culture, a framework developed by the Council of Europe to help pupils build key skills and attitudes for citizenship education. The four coloured boxes show which competences are developed in each lesson. Each lesson and activity have been designed to foster the development of values, attitudes, skills and critical knowledge.
Values
- Valuing human dignity and human rights
- Valuing cultural diversity
- Valuing democracy, justice, fairness, equality and the rule of law
Attitudes
- Openness to cultural otherness and to respect other beliefs, world views and practices
- Respect
- Civic-mindedness
- Responsibility
- Self-efficacy
- Tolerance of ambiguity
Skills
- Autonomous learning skills
- Analytical and critical thinking skills
- Skills of listening and observing
- Empathy
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Linguistic, communicative and plurilingual skills
- Co-operation skills
- Conflict-resolution skills
Knowledge and critical understanding
- Knowledge and critical understanding of the self
- Knowledge and critical understanding of language and communication
- Knowledge and critical understanding of the world: politics, law, human rights, culture, cultures, religions, history, media, economies, environment, sustainability
Activity Cards
What’s the difference between Activities and Resources?
Activities are the interactive games or exercises your pupils will complete in class.
Activity resources are the teacher materials that help you prepare : background notes, printable sheets, or instructions.
The EU Smoothie – Juniors and Seniors
How Decisions Are Made in the EU
The Passport Game
Let’s Play Shop – Junior and Senior
Team Work in the EU
Shared sovereignty – EU smoothie
Identifying EU Symbols
The Brexit Dilemma
Levels of Decision-Making
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Go further with Europe Week!
Europe Day is just around the corner!
Why not celebrate it with a full week of fun and meaningful classroom activities about the European Union?
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