Sustainability Education Handbook

The Benefits:

"Through incorporating education for sustainability into your classroom, you are helping your students create a more healthy, habitable and equitable world by helping them become active citizens." --Debra Rowe

How does teaching Sustainability Concepts benefit my students?

Whether you think of environmental, economic, sociological, or religious issues when conversations about living sustainably arise, it remains clear that sustainability is an important albeit complex topic of discussion for the educational community. By embracing environmental sustainability as a vital topic within the classroom, students internalize the importance of a high quality of life through:

Expanding awareness of how to create a more healthy and equitable world for all beings.

Encouraging creative problem solving through hands-on experimentation.

Stimulating ownership and responsibility in your students’ personal and everyday actions as well as their social actions & decisions within their community.

Empowering students to evaluate their actions and helping them make more consistent decisions that benefit all beings.

Increasing critical thinking skills and deep problem solving by using cyclical reasoning and real-world examples to better
understand class subject matter.

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Sustainable Education Handbook Table of Contents:

List of Contributors, Acknowledgments, Terms of Use
Introduction
Sample Activities
Teaching Tools
The Benefits
The Approach
Customize Your Curriculum
Evaluation Criteria Chart
Sustainability Topics
Web Sites
Curriculum
Sustainability / State Standards
Standards Quick Guide
Renewable Energy and Efficiency Success Stories