Learning resources: Sustainability

Learning in, learning about and learning for the natural environment

These education resources share suggestions to help your learners understand the concept of sustainability.

All the activities and games will enable your learners to progress in the ways described in the four purposes of the Curriculum for Wales. Curriculum links are included in the documents and all the activities will help you deliver many aspects of the cross curricular skills within the Literacy and Numeracy Framework (LNF) and Digital Competence Framework (DCF). 

Supporting your planning and curriculum design

Our ‘Supporting your planning and curriculum design – Sustainability’ document is available to support you to identify learning needs and progression, and to develop a learning plan.

• Supporting your planning and curriculum design - Sustainability

How can we live sustainably?

This activity encourages learners to discuss and consider how they can live sustainably.

• Activity plan – How can we live sustainably?
• Resource cards - How can we live sustainably?

Sustainability glossary game

This activity focuses on giving learners a basic introduction to sustainability and its key vocabulary.

• Activity plan - Sustainability glossary game
• Resource cards - Sustainability glossary game

Carbon

This information note explains that fossil fuels are carbon-based and their combustion results in the release of carbon into the earth's atmosphere.

• Information note - Carbon

How to calculate your carbon footprint

This activity shares suggestions for learners to calculate their individual carbon footprint.

• Activity plan - How to calculate your carbon footprint
• Resource cards - How to calculate your carbon footprint
• Worksheet - How to calculate your carbon footprint

Once your learners have completed this activity, you could challenge them to investigate what size of tree is needed to absorb the same amount of carbon as their carbon footprint. Activity suggestions available on our Trees and woodlands webpage.

Tackling the climate and nature emergencies

Protecting the environment for future generations is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Our Wales climate change emergency – There is no planet B webpage shares education resources and ideas to help you and your learners tackle the climate and nature emergencies that we face.