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International and Sustainable Development links from the International Development Education Association of Scotland

"The BBC World Service's weekly look at new developments in science from around the world."

Oxfam Education offers a huge range of ideas, resources and support for developing the global dimension in the classroom and the whole school. All of the resources here support Education for Global Citizenship - education that helps pupils understand their world and make a positive difference init.

More general links from the International Development Education Association of Scotland

At Visionlearning, we've developed a set of peer-reviewed materials for learning science including modular readings, interactive multimedia, and a glossary - all available for free on the web in both English and Spanish. In our readings, we emphasize science as a process, not just a collection of facts. These resources can be used individually by anyone and can also be combined and customized within online classrooms by teachers. For more information, follow one of these paths into our site:

"Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions (GC/CS) is an ambitious project, launched by ACS in 2008, to identify the world's most pressing sustainability challenges, and explore the solutions emerging from chemistry. View the original report. Updated constantly, this website and podcast, available on iTunes, monitors scientific developments and breakthroughs in the global struggle for sustainability. GC/CS is an ongoing saga of chemistry for life - chemistry that truly matters."

" Browse Our Free and Open Textbooks We are serious about publishing great textbooks. Each of our books meets the same rigorous standards - written by expert authors, peer-reviewed, and professionally edited and developed - before reaching your desk. Can't find what you are looking for? Let us know, and we'll get back to you with our plans to publish in the areas you teach. "

"The Education program for Biodiversity Snapshots was developed by Museum Victoria and is designed to have strong links to the Victorian curriculum, although the ideas could be adapted for any curriculum. Participating in Biodiversity Snapshots will require students to work in the classroom before and after a fieldtrip into their school yard, local park or bushland. Click through to Museum Victoria's Education pages to find resources to guide classroom and outdoor activities during all stages of the Biodiversity Snapshots program. There are introductory activities, research techniques and online tools that you will need to carry out your project. "

"Schools Global Footprint is a teaching resource that helps you to explore and to reduce the environmental effect your school has on the planet. The global footprint calculator is a great tool for helping you reduce your schools' ecological footprint by taking action on six topic areas including: energy, transport, food, waste, water and buildings."

UN Millennium Goals for 2015

Students learn how to conduct science investigations in the same manner as scientists, as they learn to analyze sets of online real time data to solve problems.