Blending sustainability education with UN’s SDGs to promote high-level discourse

Delivering life-saving sanitation through awesome virtual travel!

Engaging biophilia in our children and youth to support animal shelters after the pandemic

Using conservation-centered project-based learning to empower students and increase student agency, internalization, and self-efficacy

Creating community action with plastic-free initiatives

Learners Designing Collections of Online Artifacts that Lend Connection and Credibility to their Understanding

Using psychology to increase green behaviors in our learners

A college student’s perspective

Students at PS 333 tap in to their talents to teach their school community to change their wasteful ways.

Using marine protected areas to teach a socio-ecological approach to conservation

How to maximize your school garden and minimize excess labour

High school students modify one personal action to help the environment

An elementary school’s journey in using bottle caps to beautify the school, save a small piece of the planet, and increase knowledge of sustainability

Envirothons engage high school students in learning more about natural resources

Climate change can often provoke deep emotions in students. Instead of shying away, use these media literacy activities to foster discussions of what the future holds.

A mosaic of rainbow paper squares in a middle school classroom displays ideas rethinking what a sustainable future could look like

How a small team of dedicated educators successfully developed an interdisciplinary model within the confines of the traditional subject-bound timetable.

Ten basic principles for getting students aged 11-18 engaged and active in bringing about change for a more sustainable future (excerpt)

This award-winning project leverages technology to help students understand and promote sustainability within the local business community.
AN EXCERPT FROM GREEN TEACHER'S SPRING 2013 ISSUE.

Contemporary education ignores the future but sustainability education requires it. Here’s a compelling rationale and some activities that will help young people think more critically and creatively about the future.
AN EXCERPT FROM GREEN TEACHER'S SPRING 2013 ISSUE.

A sustainable chemistry lab inspired by ocean corals that allows students to create concrete through a reaction using car exhaust and seawater.

Explore the potential of peer leadership to engage teenagers in sustainability issues, using drama and teamwork to enrich learning opportunities and find solutions to real-world issues.

Two sustainability education activity plans, including a role playing/scenario game and "green" design challenge. For students in grades 6 - 9.

Students at a specialized senior science and math high school in Australia enjoy an interdisciplinary curriculum, within a new building where more than half of the floor spaces is comprised of open-concept Learning Commons. The authors describe in detail the sustainable gardens project that asks students to consider local conditions in choosing their design and which flora and fauna to include. Includes a rubric which can be applied to similar projects elsewhere.

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.

Creative and critical-thinking activities for engaging teenagers in "humanity’s 21st century group project"—sustainable design. Students learn about sustainability in the production and consumption of material goods, and apply their knowledge to design sustainable products.

A grade 6 class examines the barriers to sustainability underpinned by the Western cultural narrative, and ‘rewrites’ history to overcome these barriers.

High school students follow the framework of Education for Sustainable Development to collaborate and develop solutions to real-life issues in their school community.

Applying the principles of a design methology called permaculture to school gardens and other projects helps to reinforce the values of resourcefulness, stewardship and sustainability.

For 20 years, this alternative Grade 10 program has offered students wilderness adventures combined with education for sustainability.

The challenges of educating for sustainability in one of the world’s most highly urbanized settings.