Ceres education- Tools for embedding sustainability in your curriculum (slideshare)

2014 Hello there, Here is CERES Education’s ‘Tools for Embedding Sustainability in your Curriculum’ workshop presentation. You are welcome to use this presentation as a way to guide group discussions or as a base for your own presentation. It would be awesome if you could credit our work as this is our ‘bread and butter’. Many thanks,

CERES Education

Notes from today will be emailed to you.

Today…

1. What is EfS?

2. Curriculum audits

3. Engaging other staff in EfS

4. Tools for support

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Different Types of Learning Experiences

Green Skills and Ecological Intelligence

Innovation and Problem Solving

Connecting With Community

Spending Money On Other Things

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Favourite childhood memory

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We can't blame young people for occupying

themselves with Facebook rather than

playing in the mud. Our society doesn't

put a priority on connecting with

nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous -

David Suzuki

About

… every 3 months.

… 80% powered by burning coal.

… 83% found nowhere else in the world.

… 3 litres of water.

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Lexi and Carla from Elsternwick Primary School

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Find a way to map it out…

What sustainability learning journey does your school

provide for students from start to end?

Using curriculum planners; primary

Using curriculum audit template

Using audit template: secondary

Using school planner: secondary

Winning formula:

1. Audit your current curriculum

2. Fill in any gaps in

your students’ sustainability journey.

Start by incorporating into existing curriculum.

3. Use the head, heart and hands framework

to engage them along the way.

How can we incorporate sustainability into existing curriculum.

Let’s have a go!

Grade 1/2s are doing a Toys unit

Year 7s are doing measurement in Mathematics.

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Tools for support

http://sustainability.ceres.org.au

Search for “key documents” and “curriculum”

www.coolaustralia.org

CERES Community Environment Park

Email: outreach@ceres.org.au PH: 9389 0133