This is a collaborative project that is piloting this program in 10 schools in Russia to emphasize the importance of sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals. Its mission is to bring awareness to create a sustainable future. This 10-week course focuses on the things that people sometimes take for granted and investigates the fact that […]
Instead of recycling the Christmas cards you’ve received this year, upcycle them and create these terrific trinket boxes! They’d make great gift boxes for next Christmas! (Source) Organization: #LifeGoesONline The Life Science Centre is part of the Centre for Life science village – a cutting-edge place in the centre of Newcastle where scientists, clinicians, educationalists and […]
These activities revolve around student-developed solutions to world hunger. Included below are videos that focus on food waste. Students are shown pictures of sustainable actions they can take to reduce food waste. An accompanying activity involves a matching game where students match images with actions they can take to help global hunger. The overall challenge […]
This activity has an introduction video that informs students of the threats tropical plants are facing. The students are shown a series of photos that show various threats to plants. Students are asked to identify these threats. The big challenge students are presented with is to design a comic strip (drawn by hand or on […]
This activity is introduced using a video on how animal species are in danger of extinction because of human activities. There is a matching game for students where they investigate how they can protect life on Earth. The main challenge is for students to design and deliver a presentation outlining their answer to the question: […]
In this activity, students learn what the threats to temperate plants are and how they can help. It features a video for students to find out their challenge is to design either a table-top or digital game to increase awareness of different threats to temperate plants.
This webpage offers activity suggestions for educators that include journal writing and art activities that concern local sustainability projects. Children can make collages depicting sustainable issues within their local area or write journals to report on key sustainability issues. There are examples of student work on the website for reference or for students to use […]
A Kid Can Change the World features four weeks of colorful, age-appropriate resources. Download these free resources to teach children about the importance of generous giving while exploring how Heifer helps end hunger and poverty. The packs come in two levels—elementary (ages 4–10) and secondary (age 11+)—with similar, age-appropriate activities and content for the whole family to […]
Using the Stanford design process, teach students to create resilient communities that can deal with the effects of earthquakes when they happen – both social and structural. Organization: Museum of New Zealand The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is New Zealand’s national museum, located in Wellington. Usually known as Te Papa (Māori for “the treasure box”), it opened in 1998 after the […]
This is an online exhibition that explores how children can help take care of our environment. There are videos and explanations covering biodiversity, plastic in the sea, and climate change. Stations include Organization: Labyrinth Children’s Museum Creator Labyrinth Children’s Museum is based in Berlin, Germany, and has had more than 1.5 million visitors (children and […]