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| Resource Title | Description | Last Updated |
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| Sustainability activities/games | Upload file: 9 environmental sustainability games or activities attached as requested at PD workshops. Key words: Include themes of topics of biodiversity, resource management, conservation, consumerism, food, coastal and marine, action, fishing, experiential education. | 18/11/08 |
| Funding for school EfS projects | Upload file: A compilation of funding sources for environmental projects as well as how to strategise. Also, contact your local council, Education for Sustainability Adviser (see Contacts on this website) or search the web. | 18/11/08 |
| Bokashi compost system for schools | Upload file:
Roger Waddell/Annie McDonald
Examines the Bokashi system of composting school organic waste. Though more expensive than worm farms, this system is low maintenance and efficient. Contact Annie McDonald at Marlborough District Council ph
| 18/11/08 |
| Compost unit planner | Upload file: Cross curricular year 5&6 compost planner. Waste. Recycling. Gardens. Unit plan. | 18/11/08 |
| Sustainability in the New Zealand Curriculum - hands-on activity for staff | Upload file: Attached are the instructions, questions, 'answers', and processing for a 15 min exercise that can be done with staff (ideally in a staff meeting) on the place of sustainability in the revised curriculum. It covers 'big picture' aspects of sustainability within the intent of the Vision and Principles and Key Competencies and Values through to sustainability and the environment within AOs. Is a suitable 'taster' for developing curriculum design, unit plans etc. Roger Waddell. | 18/11/08 |
| EfS and the New Zealand Curriculum | Upload file: NZ Curriculum discussion. Ideas for teachers to promote EfS and the mandate that the NZ Curriculum has for teaching sustainability. Enviroschools. Educating for sustainability. Miles Barker.
| 18/11/08 |
| World Environment Day - one school's plan. | Upload file: Rai Valley Area School have a community plan for World Environment Day - see attached poster. Centred on addressing climate change, it involves transplanting local native trees into the school nursery and eating lunch made from vegetables grown in the school gardens. Key words: carbon offset, climate change, gardens, kicking the habit. Supplied by Alex Bunge - teacher at Rai Valley AS.
| 18/11/08 |
| The Olympic Games - Action Ideas | Upload file: Ideas for taking action while studying the Olympic - applicable for 2012. Games. Key words: Olympics, olympic, curriculum, projects, metals, trade, buildings, energy, insulation. | 18/11/08 |
| EfS Bingo - meet and greet activity | Upload file: Supplied by Wellington EfS Advisors. Group mixn'mingle challenge based on sustainability issues and questions. Key words: activity, energiser, warm-up, staff meeting, workshop. | 18/11/08 |
| Sir Peter Blake Trust Care for Our Coast resources | Year 4-8 and 9-10 resources which promotes changes in behaviour through education and action, to ensure the sustainability of NZ's marine environment. It encourages schools and communities to show social responsibility for their local coastal areas and waterways and it is designed to inspire NZers to keep the spirit of Sir Peter Blake alive. Contact lauraf@sirpeterblaketrust.org.nz for further information. Key words: simulations, experiential education, sea, ocean, waste, erosion, action, fishing, curriculum. | 24/10/08 |

