Sustainable Education

"Sustainability Resources for Learning & Teaching in Higher Education" Australia

"For more than two centuries, the idea that the world's ills are caused by poor people having too many babies has been remarkably successful at diverting attention from the complex social causes of poverty and injustice."

DEP works with teachers, trainee teachers, youth workers and other educators to promote diversity, global education and sustainable development.

"The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly."

One Planet Schools®, provides information, encouragement and inspiration for schools working to put sustainability issues at the heart of school life.

The Sustainable schools website: Helping schools to become more sustainable. Information, inspiration, resources and workshops for Education For Sustainable development

These guidelines and recommendations from UNESCO have been devised by an International Network of 30 teacher education institutions from around the world. The main aim is to show how teacher education institutions can be re-orientated to address ESD (Education for Sustainable Development) objectives.

The programme is unique in exploring both environmental education and development education in the context of education for sustainability.

The Encyclopaedia of the Atmospheric Environment has been written by the Atmosphere, Climate & Environment Information Programme, and is supported by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The Encyclopaedia is a one-stop source of information, for younger and older users alike, on a range of atmospheric issues, including air quality, acid rain, global warming and ozone depletion.

"The Teaching Race and Ethnicity website is intended for all interested scholars, researchers, teachers and others who want to engage with key issues of race, ethnicity, diversity, multiculture and racism. The aim is to provide critical resources and suggestions for teaching, learning and assessment."

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

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

My dear friend Jean-Philippe's website dedicated to Galan the paradise in Bigorre. Started in 1998, he sadly died in 2004. A polymath seriously concerned with what it means to be a human being. Use Google translate.

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.

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.

"The resource is a collection of quotes and ideas from real practitioners. The range of focuses includes: Cross-phase computer clubs; Getting more out of school trips; Enabling pupil voice through ICT; Creative multimedia artwork; Ideas for assessment; Improving parent/carer communication; multimedia plenary sessions. Each 'vignette' includes Description and Impact." DOWNLOAD BOOKLET IN 2 PARTS

"This area contains a range of articles, case studies and vignettes to exemplify how ICT is being used in the field. " Good source of ideas on how to use web2.0 technology.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"Welcome to the Centre for Bioscience, the Higher Education Academy, ImageBank. This resource consists of freely available images contributed by academics, researchers, Learned Societies, industry and individuals with rights cleared for educational purposes. "

"How do you save the planet? Chop down a tree and put it in a microwave. That's not a joke. It's the proposition of at least two dozen companies developing "biochar" technology that they say will suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and help curb global warming."