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Activities with this symbol have been produced by CarboSchools
These activities have all been developed by Dr. Phil Smith and Carol Hince of the Teacher Scientist Network (TSN), UK CarboSchools partner. They are truly cross-curricular providing science teachers and their colleagues in other subjects with very practical approaches to teaching about Sustainable Living. They create awareness and inspire young people to take action and bring about behavioural change based on sound understandings. These actions are most effective if initiated by the young people themselves and so only limited details are provided, see the ideas cloud in Essential Reading.
Essential background reading about Education for Sustainable Development
A 10-page guide (pdf 1 MB) to the principles behind ESD, some useful definitions and guiding principles for teachers of all subjects tackling the teaching of climate change and sustainable living.
Ages: Teachers guide.
Time: 1 hour
Language: English
Lets make a Start – benchmarking your sustainable journey
A suggested starting point for activities related to Sustainable living. A card-game to introduce the idea of Carbon-footprinting and links to online Ecological footprinting.
Download: Description (pdf 143 KB)
Time: 1 hour
Language: English
Material:cards new to bought (< £30). Online materials free access
Author: TSN, CarboSchools
Topics: Carbon-fooprinting; Ecological footprinting
Hitting the Headlines
The use of the media, mainly newspapers, to make climate change more personal to young people demonstrating the effects of climate change in their own localities.
Download: Description (pdf 104 KB)2 exemplar stories: wind-farmsBUS.pdf and Flooding-report.pdf
Time: 1 hour
Language: English
Material: Free / liaison with local libraries
Author: TSN, CarboSchools
Topics: Climate change in the news; national and local. Eg. floods / summer storms / future energy needs.
What costs Watt?
Measuring energy consumption around the home and realising that ‘stand-by’ is not off and how much this costs in terms of CO2 emissions and money!
The activity requires the use of simple domestic gadgets – known variously as powermeters / eco-energy meters / energy savig monitors (in German: Stromverbrauchsüberwachungsgerät, in French: compteur de consommation électrique).
Download: Description (pdf, 114 KB)
Time: 2 hours
Language: English, Italian
Material: 1 or more monitors required (20-30 euros)
Author: TSN, CarboSchools
Making Insulation Sexy
A two-part activity, marketing insulation products and studying the most effective insulators using very simple equipment.
Download: Description (pdf, 84 KB)
Time: 2 hours
Language: English
Material: Low-cost
Author: TSN, CarboSchools
Topics: Energy monitoring
Steps towards cleaner living
An online mapping activity, most suited to geography lessons, which asks lifestyle questions and includes a school travel survey. The activity requires the use of simple devices for measuring walking distances: step-o-meters or pedometers.
Download: Description (pdf, 170 KB)
"travel to school" survey sheet (pdf 55 KB)
Time: 2 hours
Language: English
Material: free-online activity. Aided by a pedometer / step-o-meter
Author: TSN, CarboSchools
Topics: Walk-to-school; carbon emissions; online mapping; school travel plans; 10000 steps
Water for life, bottle for longer!
An activity in which young people identify the different stages in producing a plastic bottle of water.
Download: Description (pdf, 166 KB)
Pictures for the activity (ppt 4 MB) and instructions about them (pdf 160 KB)
Time: 2 hours
Language: English
Material: free downloadable resource that can be run on computers or printed-out (less sustainable!)
Author: TSN, CarboSchools
5-a-day: how far away?
An activity in which young people can learn about the concept of ‘food miles / kilometres’ and some of the complex questions it raises about where our food comes from and the impact of these processes on the environment.
Download: Description (pdf, 128 KB)
Students worksheet (pdf 91 KB)
Background Information for Teachers (pdf 71 KB)
Time: 1 hour
Language: English
Material: low-cost with pupil participation in collection of materials.
Author: TSN, CarboSchools
Topics: food miles / kilometres, food production, carbon footprints
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CarboSchools is funded by the 7th EU Framework Programme for research & technological development, Science in Society - contract 217551
