Global Footprints
Pupils use resources on the internet to calculate their individual ecological footprint. They discuss how their footprint could be reduced. They can go on, with the teacher’s help, to calculate (and reduce) the global footprint of their school.
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Wonders of Nature
Wonders of Nature is a creative activity designed to get chidren to connect to the natural world and develop a sense of awe and wonder about wildlife, the environment and natural features such as waterfalls.
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Making Murals
Making Murals is a creative activity designed to give pupils an opportunity to change their school environment for the better.
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Games We Play
This activity promotes active learning, physical exercise, team work and peer education. The aim of the activity is to raise awareness of the use of space for young peoples' recreation.
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Circle Time
Circle Time is an activity promoting discussion between pupils about an environmental issue. The activity is designed to get pupils to observe and listen to each other and to share their feelings letting everyone have a say.
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My School in the Future
This activity encourages pupils to develop a vision of their ideal school for the future on an individual and group level.
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Time line of your local environment
This activity gets pupils thinking about the key features of their local environment and considering the impacts on their environment in the past and future. It stimulates pupils to consider how we can influence the change of our environment over time.
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Access to Green and Open Space
This classroom activity using maps and discussion helps pupils to develop an awareness of the importance of green and open space through finding out about the land area around their school.
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What is Quality of Life?
This activity gets pupils to look at what we value in our neighbourhood, what we want to change and how we can define quality of life.
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My Ideal Neighbourhood / City
Using this activity pupils can explore what features the ideal city would have and who these features would benefit.
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What is Sustainability?
This activity helps children to understand the concept of sustainability.
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Learning from BedZed
BedZED, the Beddington Zero Energy Development, is an environmentally-friendly, energy-efficient mix of housing and work space in Beddington, Sutton. This activity explores how design can influence sustainable living using BedZed as a case study.
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What is a Sustainable City
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Knowing Me, Knowing You
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Vision of A Sustainable City
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Planning a Sustainable City
This activity, devised by Lindsay Poyner gets pupils to think about and understand the features of a sustainable city.
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Mapping the School Environment
This activity gets pupils to think about their school environment and how it could be improved. It encourages children to think about design and layout in environmental, social and economic terms.
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Setting Up A Steering Group
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Devising an Action Plan
This activity is about planning ways of improving the school environment and community for the future.
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Unsustainable World
This activity, developed by Ken Webster helps young people to realise the gap between the world as it is and the needs of a sustainable world.
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