Make sure you also look at the websites and books for kids.
Sustainable Schools
The DCSF would like all schools to be sustainable by 2020, and to prepare young people for a lifetime of sustainable living. This website looks at what we mean by sustainable schools, and describes the DCSF’s National Framework and related programmes. As well as the latest guidance for sustainable schools, it contains news from local authorities as well as local and national non-governmental organisations, and provides links to a variety of dedicated support.
WWF Teaching and Learning
This site has loads of information to help you think about teaching and learning approaches appropriate to Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), tools to help you plan topics and develop activities, activities and ideas to try in the classroom for all ages, and opportunities to comment and share your own activity ideas and examples of good practice.
The Playground Potting Shed: A foolproof guide to gardening with children by D. Murphy
Over the course of a year, Dominic Murphy helped his local school create a beautiful and productive garden that supplied the kitchen with vegetables and the children with flowers to take home. Starting out with a battered polytunnel and two patches of waterlogged clay, Dominic records the setbacks and small triumphs he encountered as he got the gardening club off the ground. The result is a unique and practical guide to getting your garden to fruit and flower before the school holidays.
Teaching About Climate Change: Cool schools tackle global warming by T. Grant and G. Littlejohn
This exciting resource provides educators at all levels with strategies to teach about global warming and engage students' interest in doing their part to help cool the planet. It is packed with lesson plans, activities, experiments, and worksheets. From calculating your school's CO2 emissions and other greenhouse effect experiments, to strategies for reducing school energy consumption, and hands-on explorations of energy and transportation alternatives from solar cookers to bike-athons, this compendium provides the tools to get any classroom or community involved in making their school cool.
Make sure you also look at the websites and books for kids.
Sustainable Schools
A great place to start. For more information see Primary web based resources.
The Story of Stuff
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled video looking at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
The Meatrix
Want to know more about problems with factory farming? Watch this series of short cartoons as a start to a lively discussion about finding healthier food sources that are produced in a more ethical way.
Rethink, Refuse, Reduce: education for sustainability in a changing world by K. Webster
A book of insights, argument, and workshop resources for every educator, school manager and teacher training.
Sense and Sustainability: educating for a low carbon world by K. Webster
Sense & Sustainability engages with the questions around creating a bright green future and 'saving ourselves' : building social, economic and natural capital at the same time. Education which informs the search for the eco-restorative and resilient community .
Sustainable Energy - Without the hot air by D.J.C.MacKay
In a nutshell, David MacKay's brilliant book is about working out a budget, as if on the back of an envelope, with the red column listing how much energy we consume and the green column listing how much we produce (or could produce using various technologies). Can this budget be balanced? And how? In one brief but insightful chapter after another, the author gives us a few simple intellectual tools to figure out the answer for ourselves: not much more than the four operations and a bit of common sense, plus a useful human-scale framework for thinking sensibly about energy.
