Cross Curricular Links - Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)Teachers must allow children to:
Children learn in a variety of ways. They learn at different speeds. Teaching and learning methods need to be of these diversities. The Design & Technology Association Primary School Based INSET Manual For Design & Technology provides many suggestions how children can be encouraged to think for themselves, with the teacher acting as guider, and less as an informer, in various contexts. Available from the ONLINE SHOP. New SITA education pack available for schoolsA new education pack, produced by waste management company SITA UK, aims to highlight waste issues for school children at Key Stages 2 and 3. Written in line with the national curriculum, the pack contains a teacher's guide, a poster and activity sheets, and is complimented by a website with downloadable activity sheets, animated waste journeys and an interactive game. The pack and website aim to promote an equally important set of three Rs - reducing, reusing and recycling waste. For downloadable teaching resources linking design and technology to science topics of renewable energy visit: For other cross curricular activities linked to topics on climate change, water and sustainability go to: |




