5 Minute Sustainability

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Descrição

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. 
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/Carpool

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Como utilizar este recurso

Sustainability Coordinators 

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.

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Os recursos

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:

• 5 Minutes of Sustainability

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:

• Programmes and Resources

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Resultados da aprendizagem

• Obter conhecimentos prévios e aprofundar o conhecimento e a compreensão dos conceitos-chave da Cidadania para a Sustentabilidade, desafiando as visões do mundo e os valores estabelecidos.
• Aplicar uma série de ferramentas e quadros adequados para promover a Cidadania para a Sustentabilidade dos estudantes
• Refletir sobre a prática e examinar os programas curriculares nacionais para identificar oportunidades de promover a Cidadania para a Sustentabilidade de forma interdisciplinar e envolver as partes interessadas externas.
• Sintetizar de forma colaborativa os conhecimentos, as ferramentas e os quadros para criar materiais didácticos e planos de aulas adaptados ao seu próprio contexto local
• Através de actividades de workshops e de comunidades de prática, desenvolver capacidades e agência enquanto educadores e líderes da Cidadania para a Sustentabilidade.

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Competências verdes

• Incorporar valores sustentáveis: Valorizar a sustentabilidade; apoiar a equidade; promover a natureza
• Abraçar a complexidade na sustentabilidade: Pensamento crítico; Enquadramento de problemas
• Perspectivas de futuros sustentáveis: Adaptabilidade; Pensamento exploratório
• Agir em prol da sustentabilidade: Political Agency; Collective Action; Individual Initiative

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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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