Empowering students to take action in innovative ways.
Grade 3 to 6 – Australia 2050
Working collaboratively, students creatively envision real alternatives for a positive future in this 45 minute program.
- Personal futures visioning – imagine what our world will look like in 2050.
- Investigate where resources come from and how they are all connected to ecosystems.
- Discuss some of the current issues in modern living and introduce the concept of a ‘take-make-waste’ society.
- Build a ‘Green Town’ – using real-world, innovative ideas about living sustainably, explore how to live sustainably in a community setting.
Grade 3 to 6 – Environmental Solutions
A great ‘all rounder’! In this 45 minute program, students learn about their own personal impact on the natural environment.
- Learn about the four main areas of sustainability – biodiversity, energy, waste and water.
- Explore some of the major environmental challenges AND their solutions.
- Investigate the sustainable features of your school.
- Investigate easy and exciting actions that can be done at your school.
Year 7 to 10 – Australia 2050
Working collaboratively, students creatively envision real alternatives for a positive future in this 45 minute program.
- Make important decisions based on lifestyle and population to predict your future for the year 2050. The survey results lead to one of the twelve future social and environmental scenarios.
- How do your decisions contribute to global warming and climate change?
Sustainability: A Global Perspective (Year 7 to 10)
Students are supported to consider actions they can take in order to be part of the solution in this 45 minute program.
- Find out more about the concept of sustainability and how this concept fits in with global societies.
- Explore through experiential learning that most developed areas of the world are living in an unsustainable manner.
- Gain perspectives in sustainability through Earth wisdom, wisdom from other ways of life, and tapping into the individual wisdom we all hold.
- Discover, through visual activities, that human development and dominance on Earth has only occurred for a very short time in the history of the earth.
- Investigate resource depletion and distribution and discuss causes and consequences of this.
- Explore causes and consequences of climate change which is directly related to the unsustainable way in which humans have been living.
- Discuss what is already being done or could be done at home and school to live more sustainably.
Grade 3 to 6 and Year 7 to 10 – Do More with LESS
Support students to let their inner-leader shine and carry out sustainability projects at home and/or school in this 4 hour program.
- Explore concepts of what it means to be a leader.
- Investigate concepts of ‘sustainability’ and human impact on the natural environment.
- Conduct student-led sustainability audits to find out “where things are at” at your school.
- Workshop ideas for taking action in your community.
- Be guided through an action planning process to prepare for an upcoming school year, a single term or an individual project.
- Get hints and tips on making your projects successful through communication and getting others involved.
Themes available for your in-school workshop:
- Energy – Energy Flows
- Waste – Food Systems
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