Schools Climate Change Initiative

The Schools Climate Change Initiative is a middle years, quality teaching education-for-sustainability program funded by the Department of Environment and Climate Change. The goal of the program is:

To assist in the implementation of the NSW Greenhouse Plan by developing teacher and student awareness, understanding and environmental citizenship in regard to the local-to-global measures required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to future climate changes in NSW.

The initiative will achieve this goal over the 2007-2009 school years by working with eleven local climate change learning communities across NSW to develop, trial and refine:

a series of teaching-learning tasks;
associated teaching and learning resources
an associated professional learning program for teachers

It addresses climate change and sustainable energy in the key learning areas of Science, Technology and Human Society and its Environment in conjunction with School Environmental Management Plans.

Teaching and learning activities and processes produced by these communities will be uploaded to this website as they become available for publishing.

The April, 2009 Schools Climate Change Initiative newsletter (pdf 1.74MB) details the learning communities involved in the initiative and outlines some of their actions to achieve their goals of awareness raising, local-to-global action and reduction of greenhouse gases.

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