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Sustainability Choices

Overview

Students evaluate daily choices for their sustainability impact.

Learning Objective
Students understand what sustainability means and how everyday choices connect to it.

Resources needed

  • None

Lesson stages

0 / 7 done
  1. 1 Ask what sustainability means.
  2. 2 List everyday actions: walking or driving, buying local food, using plastic.
  3. 3 Students rate each action as more or less sustainable.
  4. 4 Discuss why they rated them that way.
  5. 5 Introduce the idea of trade-offs (convenience vs environment).
  6. 6 Each student chooses one change they could make.
  7. 7 Share ideas.

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Variations

  • Calculate a simple carbon footprint for a day.
  • Design a sustainable school or home.
More information

Teach sustainable, renewable, carbon footprint, trade-off.

Focus on just two or three clear choices.

Can students define sustainability and give one example of a more and a less sustainable choice?

Discussion only. Connects to students' own daily lives.

Students sometimes think sustainability is only about recycling. Introduce energy, food, transport, and water as equally important areas.

Directly links to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Activity details
Secondary Easy 15–20 minutes no prep Small Group Indoor & Outdoor
Topics
Sustainability Environment