Intended End User: Teacher
Age Group: Upper Primary; Lower Secondary; Upper Secondary
School Curriculum: Maths; Science; Social, Physical & Health Education; Social & Environment Science; Arts; Applied Science
Themes and Topics: Energy Use and Production; Behaviour & Lifestyle; Collective Action; Environmental Change; Food and Agriculture; Power & Influence; Information & Knowledge; Citizenship
Duration: 5 minute Sustainability Videos x 9
Type of Resource: Audio/Video, Project
Keywords:Â Sustainability, Student-Centred Approach, Challenge-Based Learning, Place-Based Learning, Bite-sized Resource
Languages: English
Description
The 5 minutes of sustainability resource was created in direct response to teachers and students asking, ‘What can WE do about climate change and biodiversity loss?’ This series of impactful student-led videos can stimulate interesting discussions, create awareness and empower schools to tackle the climate and nature emergency.Â
Each video is on a new topic and highlights feasible, actionable steps to combat climate change, manage energy, reduce waste and improve biodiversity in your schools.
This resource is for Sustainability Coordinators and any primary & secondary teachers who want to take action in their subject area.
The topics covered by the video series include:
- Introduction
- Data
- Saving Energy
- Influencing Government
- Reducing Waste
- Eating for the Planet
- Trees for Climate and Biodiversity
- Let it Grow
- Cycle/Walk/Carpoolvel of experience.
How to use this resource
Sustainability CoordinatorsÂ
Play the videos to the whole school once a month/half term to create awareness.
Use the videos to bolster an action you want to take as a whole school. Ask each department how they can use their lessons to help support that whole school action.
Classroom Teacher
Play a video when covering a topic that relates to biodiversity, travel, energy, & data.
Allow the class to brainstorm how they will take an action as an individual, as a class or as a school.
The resources
The Irish Sustainability School Network (ISSN) host the series of 5 Minutes of Sustainability Videos on their main website. This can be accessed with the following link:
The Irish Sustainability School Network (ISSN) website contains a range of additional supports and resources for teachers and school interested in promoting sustainability. This includes The ISSN website can be accessed here:
Learning Outcomes
- Elicit prior knowledge and further develop knowledge and comprehension of key Sustainability Citizenship key concepts, challenging established worldviews and values.
- Apply a range of suitable tools and frameworks to promote student Sustainability Citizenship
- Reflect on practice and examine national curricula to identify opportunities to promote Sustainability Citizenship in interdisciplinary ways and engage with external stakeholders.
- Collaboratively synthesise the knowledge, tools and frameworks to create educational materials and lessons plans adapted to their own local context
- Through workshop activities and communities of practice, build capacity and agency as Sustainability Citizenship educators and leaders.
Green Competencies
- Embodying Sustainable Values: Valuing Sustainability; Supporting Fairness; Promoting Nature
- Embracing Complexity in Sustainability: Critical Thinking; Problem Framing
- Envisioning Sustainable Futures: Adaptability; Exploratory Thinking
- Acting for Sustainability: Political Agency; Collective Action; Individual Initiative
Creative Commons
The 5 Minutes of Sustainability video series was created by the Irish Sustainability School Network and is shared here with their kind permission.
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