1. Teaching and learning about sustainability

2. ACARA Cross curriculum priorities
The Australian Curriculum places emphasis on Sustainability as a priority for study that connects and relates relevant aspects of content across learning areas and subjects.
Cross-curriculum learning is fundamental to:
understanding the ways social, economic and environmental systems interact to support and maintain human life
appreciating and respecting the diversity of views and values that influence sustainable development
participating critically and acting creatively in determining more sustainable ways of living.
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3. NSW Syllabus Learning across the curriculum
Sustainability   
Sustainability is concerned with the ongoing capacity of the Earth to maintain all life. It provides authentic contexts for exploring, investigating and understanding systems in the natural and made environments. The Science K–10 (incorporating Science and Technology K–6) Syllabus provides students with opportunities to investigate relationships between systems and system components, to consider how systems respond to change and to develop appreciation for the interconnectedness of the Earth's spheres.
Relationships, cycles and cause and effect are explored, and students develop observation and analytical skills to examine these relationships in the world around them to design solutions to identified sustainability problems.
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4. Where to find resources
Locate ‘Curriculum’ within your portal, select ‘Learning across the curriculum’,
select ‘Sustainability’ then look for ‘Teaching and learning resources’.
Navigate through site
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5. Sustainability topics
Teaching resources
Links to resources
Links to activities
Links to web-based interactive teaching and learning resource
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6. Sustainability action process
5 steps
Student-centred
Project based
Inquiry learning
Authentic
Action focussed
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7. NSW Environmental and Zoo Education Centres
Online resources
Stages 2 & 3
Stages 4 & 5
Biodiversity
Energy
Kitchen gardens
Thermal comfort
Transport
Waste
Water
Show where to find resources and walk through one.
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