Bridge the Gap
Take it into
the room.
Swechha's education programme, written out in full: the background a teacher needs on each theme, and the sessions that go with it. Use one, use all of them, change them for your own classroom.
If you have one period
Four sessions that need a room and nothing else.
- The Bean GameSustainable Development · Managing money means choosing. There is never enough for everything you would like to have or do. This game makes you…
- The Life Of A T-Shirt ActivitySustainable Development · OUTCOMES
- How do we get to school?Blowing in the Wind · The way children travel to school can make a difference to their health and the environment. Some have to travel a…
- Vision for waterWater, Water, Everywhere · Students pick two of the questions below and argue them out, in pairs or in small groups, using what they already…
Before you start sets out how to run one of these so it does something.
Eight themes
Each one carries the background a teacher needs, and the sessions that go with it.
How to think about it
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Sustainable DevelopmentSustainable development · 11 sessions, 7 sections of reading
Five systems of a city
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Blowing in the WindAir pollution and what it does to a body · 3 sessions, 7 sections of reading
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03
Water, Water, EverywhereWater, and not a drop to drink · 8 sessions, 19 sections of reading
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Food on my PlateWhere food comes from · 3 sessions, 4 sections of reading
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Wasted!Waste, and what happens to it · 5 sessions, 18 sections of reading
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Trees and ForestsTrees, forests and how they grow · 4 sessions, 5 sections of reading
What happens next
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Future and EnergyEnergy and the future · 5 sessions, 17 sections of reading
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Climate Justice and Active CitizenshipClimate justice and active citizenship · 4 sessions, 4 sections of reading
All 43 sessions
Every session in the compendium, by theme.
The Three Spheres in Your Own Community
Sustainable Development
To build pupil understanding of all three sides of sustainability — environment, society and economy.
Defining Sustainable, Holistic and Inclusive Development
Sustainable Development
To introduce needs and wants. Whose need comes first? Are we building a society that lets people in, or one that…
Sustainable Development
To give pupils practice analysing a real sustainability issue in their own area.
Sustainable Development
To teach pupils to read a newspaper report critically. They will learn about their own town on the way.
Truth, Falsehood and Citizenship
Sustainable Development
To build understanding of the values sustainability rests on — responsibility and citizenship — and to make pupils…
Sustainable Development
To show how the way one person thinks about a shared resource decides whether they — and everyone around them — get…
Building Climate Resilience - SDG 13 (Climate Action)
Sustainable Development
To work out what this community is actually exposed to when the climate turns, and what skills and resources it would…
Sustainable Development
Students follow an electronic device — a phone, a computer — through its whole life, from mine to dump.
Sustainable Development
Managing money means choosing. There is never enough for everything you would like to have or do. This game makes you…
Blowing in the Wind
The way children travel to school can make a difference to their health and the environment. Some have to travel a…
Water, Water, Everywhere
Students pick two of the questions below and argue them out, in pairs or in small groups, using what they already…
Water, Water, Everywhere
The whole water cycle, in a plastic bag taped to a sunny window. Students watch evaporation and condensation happen…
Water, Water, Everywhere
Introduces two ideas: your water footprint, and the water hidden inside everything you buy.
Gray, Green, Blue: Water Security
Water, Water, Everywhere
What it takes to keep water running in a growing city, and who does that work — read off a set of photographs.
Water, Water, Everywhere
To follow the Yamuna through Delhi and work out, standing on the bank, what the city does to the river and what it…
Where Does Your Food Come From?
Food on my Plate
To find out where your own town's food actually comes from, and what it costs — in distance, in diesel, in who gets…
Food on my Plate
To make food security something students feel in their feet, instead of a phrase they learn by heart.
Food on my Plate
Students take one everyday food and follow it backwards — from the plate to the field, naming every person it passed…
Carbon Cycle Adventure Story Game
Future and Energy
Tell the students you meant to teach them about carbon today but you cannot find any. Ask whether anybody saw carbon…
What is waste? /Understanding Waste
Wasted!
This session builds an understanding of waste: what it is, where it comes from, and what goes wrong when it is…
Wasted!
Choose one: a landfill walk, or a visit to a recycling unit. Which one depends on the age of the students and the…
Wasted!
To pull together what the class has seen and learnt so far, and to find out what they actually make of the waste…
Trees and Forests
To find out what makes a tree grow, by cutting dormant twigs, waking them up and measuring what they do.
Trees and Forests
To watch a tree's growth machinery working, on a twig, in the classroom.
Trees and Forests
Sketch the outline of every different tree shape you can find near the school, or on a field trip. Draw the whole…
Trees and Forests
Forest Walk, pitched to the age of the students and the size of the batch.
Climate change, human rights and equality
Climate Justice and Active Citizenship
The Sustainable Development Goals are seventeen goals the United Nations agreed in 2015, and they apply to every…
Climate Justice and Active Citizenship
Climate change can be the same across a huge area — one rise in temperature, one rise in sea level. What it does to…
Climate Justice and Active Citizenship
Inequality is the heart of climate justice. This game puts it in the room. Everyone starts on one line, and by the…
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