Schools can play a major role in preparing young people to live sustainable lives. For example, they can help their pupils learn about carbon emissions - where they arise and how to reduce them - and what could happen if we don't take action. One of the best places to start thinking about sustainability is the school itself and its own practices.

University of Plymouth Sustainability Policy and Strategic Action Plan

A list of websites containing information about developments and resources to support education for sustainable development and global citizenship.

The final report was published on 30 April 2009. It also includes the proposed programmes of learning that would make up a new curriculum and the Essentials for Learning and Life that will be developed throughout the curriculum.

These are some of the best free internet resources for education.

This publication sets out the educational and social benefits to young people of learning in a sustainable school. It is written for leadership teams in primary and secondary schools and other educational settings across England. Under five themes, it sets out 15 top tips based on the impact of sustainable schools and education for sustainable development on school improvement and young people's well-being as defined by Every Child Matters outcomes. It is hoped these will be useful in the context of schools striving to enable learners to become successful, confident individuals, and responsible, caring citizens.

The QTS Standards and the Global Dimension: contextual questions

Get your school involved in Fairtrade Fortnight with the specially designed resources.

There is a growing number of acadmics and researchers (faculty and students) engaging with Transition Initiatives and Transition Network. Initially, their work was typically around community involvement in sustainability. Latterly, we're seeing more niche type research into, for example, economic areas such as local complementary currencies.

Learning Score is an alternative take on lesson planning. A multimedia lesson-planning and delivery tool that uses a music score metaphor to show the range of planned activities for a lesson as a graphical time line. Use it for planning, for reflection, or as a upgrade to powerpoint since you can embed any resources you want to use into the visual plan itself. Whole lessons can be saved with all their resources and annotations for later use and sharing.

A free ebook to download - The Web 2.0 Projects ebook brings together 60 great -- and simple -- ideas for using Web 2.0 applications in the classroom.

The site for leaders and managers of educational ICT. Articles, free stuff, newsletter - all relating to the embedding of ICT and Web 2.0 into education.

A guide that will help school teachers to help children develop a connection to the environment, through both learning and experience.

This website is a guide to books, films, posters and web resources which support global, intercultural and environmental understanding for all age groups and subjects. From climate change to poverty, water to fair trade, you can find a huge range of teaching resources and background material.

The World Ecitizens Online Environment is a resource for educational collaboration in topics such as responsible citizenship, mutual respect, combating social injustice and conflict prevention and resolution. There are resources and links to citizenship and also a page of teaching notes.

"The Earth Charter Initiative" is an extraordinarily diverse, global network of people, organizations, and institutions that participate in promoting and implementing the values and principles of the Earth Charter. This page contains a guide for using the Earth Charter in education, including key resources for teachers.

This toolkit is for all ages and school types. It will help you to plan school\npartnerships and integrate them into the curriculum.

This is the global gateway to educational partnerships! Information on projects, collaboration, funding and programmes. Toolkits, case studies and resources for teachers / schools.