UK-based Open-City has developed innovative ways to ensure sustainability has its place on the curriculum in their My Green School Lessons.
Through aligning it to the core subjects of English, Maths and Science, and to Geography and Design & Technology, the environment is embedded at the centre of primary school children’s learning at Key Stage 2.
Teachers can download the unique set of curriculum-linked lessons directly onto their whiteboards, get started immediately and meet specific subject learning outcomes for their students by following the Teacher Guide.
The whole class is engaged through interactive slides and a variety of teaching methods including computer-focused activities, small-group working and outside the classroom learning.
“My Green School is a fabulous initiative which presents teachers and children with an opportunity to connect with sustainability in a creative and meaningful way,” according to Fiona Bailey, senior lecturer in Primary and Early Years Education at Middlesex University. “Enabling children to engage so readily with such an important topic is very impressive.”
This is the latest Open-City education initiative in an insightful portfolio of education programmes to demonstrate how sustainability and architecture are stimulating vehicles through which to explore core national curriculum subjects.
Since 1998, Open-City has actively engaged over 25,000 young people with the built environment through direct experience and professionally-led design workshops, thereby opening up a new world of learning opportunities, ideas and creativity.
“Open-City education programmes re-engage young people with, and inspire them about, their built environment and empower them with the knowledge, understanding and enthusiasm to shape it for the better,” Director of Open-City, Victoria Thornton.
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