Sustainability for Schools
Calculate your school Ecological Footprint before becoming more sustainable. This will allow the business to determine what parts would benefit from becoming more sustainable.
Australian Government Department of Education
- They provide online classroom-ready, sustainability education resources. They include case studies on creating change and information on linking resources back to the curriculum.
Queensland Government Education
- They provide information and a central hub for all Queensland schools with sustainability resources.
- They have climate-ready school guides, and steps to create a SEMP (Sustainable Environment Management Plan).
- They offer competitions, scholarships, awards and grant opportunities to schools.
- Eco-Schools is a school-based sustainability education framework based in Denmark and operating internationally.
- It is a curriculum-linked, democratic and participatory program that provides opportunities for students to experience active citizenship within their schools.
Queensland Government Education
- The Queensland Government have collated/ organised resources with a variety of topics within the environment. CSIRO Sustainable Futures provide free educational resources and professional development to support teaching sustainability and climate science. Cool Australia or CooLorg provides a range of curriculum-linked resources for years prep to 10, registration is required to access content.
- ABC Education has a variety of programs and podcasts related to sustainability, climate change etc.
Conservation and Sustainability activity book
- The Queensland Government has a variety of activities kids can do to inspire them to work in STEM. Activities include mazes, colouring in, word searches, connecting the dots and many more.
- There are information and links about water and energy in schools, waste in schools and biodiversity in schools