Embedding sustainability in the national curriculum
The Blue Ring project – named after the earth’s fragile atmosphere – aims to teach young people about the importance of living sustainably, via resource packs mapped to the National Curriculum. The project is only in its initial stages, but is planned to cover the full range of curriculum subjects.
A resource bank for teaching sustainability
Each lesson is mapped to at least one learning objective for a particular subject in the UK National Curriculum (Key Stages 3 and 4), and to one or more from a list of 25 sustainability themes developed especially for the project.
Each pack will contain: a teacher briefing; reading/study sheets; lesson plans (by subject, level and learning objective), worksheets, a glossary of difficult terms, and a bibliography and webography.
The reading sheets provide excerpts from recent relevant literature and the data sheets provide genuine data and figures relating to authentic situations.
Progress of this project
Sustainability education resources, phase 1
The Blue Ring project is still at the early development stage. It currently exists as a plan, a topic list, a mapping document relating the topics to the National Curriculum (needs updating), templates for activities, templates for teacher lesson plans, templates for teacher briefings and bibliographies, sample lessons. All of these will need some updating.
Sustainability education resources, phase 2
The project has been put on hold, pending a sponsor. If interested, please contact us.
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We seek a sponsor or client interested in taking this sustainability education project further with Rachel, our writer. If you are interested, please contact us and we’ll be delighted to provide more information.
Examples of resources
Sample student worksheet (PDF)
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