Education for Sustainable Development

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) has been defined as ‘finding ways to improve people’s quality of life without damaging the environment, and without storing up problems for the future, or transferring them to other parts of society or other countries’ (DfES, 2006)

From climate change to global health we, as science educators, have a crucial part to play in promoting the science that underpins environmental protection, and also how this relates to social and economic affairs.

Finding opportunities in the curriculum

Sustainability and sustainability education, written by a range of experts in the field, education practitioners and environmental organisations.

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An activity where students look at the 6Rs of sustainability, recycle, reduce, reuse, refuse, repair, rethink. Many of the GCSE examination courses...
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Two short activities to develop understanding of why energy is essential to achieving the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In these...
Practical Action

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Gareth Price and Stuart Bevins explain how an education project involving four partners across Europe is aiming to highlight how science and techn

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An exciting new challenge for pupils to develop solutions to the problems caused by plastic waste globally. The challenge can be used flexibly as...

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