Success stories from this international organisation about how to motivate disengaged students through innovative school programs targeting individual students.
Education
15 resources found
Communicating sustainability: How to produce effective public campaigns
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UNEP
Case study, Reference material
This report covers the principles and challenges of communicating sustainability effectively. Case studies are presented from all over the world of effective communication campaigns.
Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
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Australian Government
Networks, Reference material
An extensive searchable database of publications, information, resources, statistics, strategies, policies on the Australian environment. Materials are easy to search and arranged by sub-topics such as 'biodiversity' and 'water'.
Earth citizenship: A conceptual framework for learning for sustainability
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NSW Dept Education & Training
Reference material, Toolbox
A holistic approach to learning for sustainability for teachers to use with their students Years K-12. It covers sustainability capabilities and knowledge and includes links to toolkits and curriculum resources.
Education for Sustainability
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UNEP
Toolbox
The concept of education for sustainability is explained and teaching resources provided to teach the concepts to students.
Education for Sustainable Development: ESD resources for educational development
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Soren Breiting (editor), a researcher from Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Toolbox
Reports, Presentations and articles covering a wide range of sustainable development topics. The Presentations in particular would be most useful for teaching purposes.
Health & physical education for the earth.
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GreenHeart Education
Activity
Detailed website for primary teachers with articles on a variety of topics pertaining to nature and the uptake of an ethos of environmental sustainability by school students.
Learning for a Sustainable Future
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Learning for a Sustainable Future
Networks, Toolbox
LFS is a Canadian non-profit organisation whose mandate is to work with educators from across Canada to integrate the concepts and principles of sustainable development into the curricula at all grade levels.
Organizations & the Natural Environment - Teaching Resources
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Organizations & the Natural Environment – Academy of Management Division
Activity, Case study, Multimedia, Networks, Syllabus, Toolbox
Contains many valuable resources, including a range of syllabi concerning business and sustainability such as sustainability, environmental accounting and environmental leadership, case studies concerning environmental standards, green supply chains, corporate environmental strategies and life-cycle analysis and links to a range of academic books and articles. The Teaching Resources tab includes a database of multimedia teaching tools including movies, recorded speeches and documentaries, and suggestions for assignments and projects.
Sustainability at Macalaster: Curriculum resources
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Macalaster College, Minnesota
Multimedia, Networks, Syllabus, Toolbox
A number of varied teaching resources on education for sustainability topics and syllabi plus useful Networks links.
Sustainability Online Resource & Toolkit for Education (Sorted)
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The Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (UK)
Multimedia, Toolbox
A variety of resources provided in the area of sustainability education over a number of sectors e.g. health, poverty etc.
Teaching & learning for a sustainable future - a multimedia teaching education program
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UNESCO Education International
Case study, Multimedia, Syllabus, Toolbox, Workshops & seminars
This is an extremely comprehensive site providing guidelines for running successful workshops, and four workshop modules on Introducing Teaching & Learning for a Sustainable Future (TLSF), Teacher education for a sustainable future, Multimedia approaches in teaching education and using TLSF in courses.
Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future: A Multimedia Teacher Education Resource
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UNESCO
Activity, Simulation
Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is a multimedia teacher education programme published by UNESCO. It contains 100 hours (divided into 25 modules) of professional development for use in pre-service teacher courses as well as the in-service education of teachers, curriculum developers, education policy makers, and authors of educational materials.
Teaching and learning through civil engagement: Prospects for sustainability in teacher education
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Issues in Educational Research 2010
Reference material
The title of the article describes its content. Challenges to uptake by academics in using community organisations to teach sustainability could be applied to other disciplines.
The Learning Place
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Education Queensland
Networks, Toolbox
A large number of resources and Networks links for teaching sustainability topics in schools.