To Muck About & Create A Community of Scientists in Your Classroom
A three-tier approach to developing students’ field research skills and knowledge
Students, Safe Water Gardens, and the UN SDGs
Delivering life-saving sanitation through awesome virtual travel!
Maskwi’omin: A Birch Bark Antibiotic
Bringing Western and Indigenous methods to the science classroom
The Sustainable Art Studio
Finding the voice of art in education for sustainable development
Problems in Our Backyard
What changes when young students grapple with real, local issues?
Uncaging Imagination with Guerilla Geography
An innovative way to creatively transform learners of all ages into curious explorers
Doing Business in Birmingham
This award-winning project leverages technology to help students understand and promote sustainability within the local business community.
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Training the Next Generation of Leaders
The Young Adults Environmental Leadership Program provides youth aged 12 to 18 with training, expertise and guidance in developing and implementing community environmental projects
Community-Character Education
Exploring, defining and enhancing the visual environment of our communities.
Good Design Matters
Growth is inevitable, but the destruction of community character and natural resources that too often accompanies it is not.
Urban Gardening Renaissance
Urban school gardens reach out to their communities and complement "green school" philosophy.
School Food Gardens in Multicultural Inner-city Settings
A model for maintaining gardening programs year round through school-community partnerships.
Student "Experts" in Community Character
An interdisciplinary unit for middle school grades.
Inspiring Eco-Clubs in South India
A description of how an organic farming program at impoverished schools in south India has improved health, and increased environmental awareness and self esteem amongst students, teachers, and communities.
Localism as a Guiding Framework for Schools
Placing more focus on local issues in educational programs can serve to deepen students’ understanding of global issues, and increase caring and enthusiasm for learning.
Parties, Praise, and Plastic Bottles
Three projects to help elementary schools up their green factor – creating a reusable classroom party box, celebrating environmental ‘idols’ in the school and community, and setting environmental world records.
Sustainability Education in Classrooms
High school students follow the framework of Education for Sustainable Development to collaborate and develop solutions to real-life issues in their school community.
Beyond Disaster Relief
Help 12-17 year olds make connections between climate change, international development and their local communities through activities and real-life scenarios.
Pedestrian City
Help middle and high school students investigate the walkability of their urban neighbourhoods to prepare them to become globally-minded and locally-engaged citizens with these 3 urban mobility activities.
Resolution to Advance Service-Learning
A proposal to advocates of environmental and community-character education.
Roots of Diversity: Growing Culturally Significant Plants in the Classroom
Ideas and curricular connections for growing plants that celebrate the cultural diversity of our communities.
Getting Fresh with Farm-to-School Programs
By making direct connections between growers and schools, farm-to-school programs provide local markets for family farmers and healthier food choices for schoolchildren.
Singapore Sensory Trail
In this inter-cultural and inter-generational community project, expatriate students designed an interpretive trail to provide access to nature for visually impaired citizens of Singapore.
