Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).
The project is addressed to:
School Teachers
School Directors
Students
The entire school community can benefit from the results of the GO Green project on environmental protection, sustainability and green practices: a training course and proposal of lesson plans for teachers, a new syllabus for school directors, a transdisciplinary approach for students.
E-learning based training package addressed to secondary school teachers to prepare them in taking into account environmental and sustainable development-related issue in their lessons
A database of lesson plans and related teaching tools and sources that secondary school teachers and students can use to address the main challenges related to environmental and sustainable development
A proposal for a new school Syllabus for teaching environmental protection, sustainability and green practices
The Go Green project is funded, by the European Commission through the Italian National Agency for the Erasmus+ Programme
The e-learning package is a great tool that equips individuals across the lifespan with the necessary understanding, competencies, principles, and autonomy to confront interrelated worldwide issues such as climate change, biodiversity depletion, unsustainable resource utilisation, and inequity. The video presentations at the beginning of each unit offer an outline of the content in a very appealing and easy-to-grab way. The presentation is very graphic, and the resources, both online and offline, are substantial and offer support for a better understanding of the key concepts.
Relevant information is addressed in the e-learning package, together with valuable outline of didactic strategies. The course is adequately structured, with a progressive approach, from a basic contextualization approach about the complexity of sustainability to the didactic approach, from problematized approaches in close and significant contexts, and from interdisciplinarity. The package offers the opportunity to assess its suitability and appropriateness for teacher literacy in sustainability (e.g. by means of a pre-test/post-test).
The E-learning Package deals with urgent issues such as climate change and sustainable development. I think that the course provides teachers of many interesting tools and suggestions to involve actively the classroom in challenging tasks concerning sustainability. Only by reflecting together on the solutions to save our planet and by adopting sustainable ways of life, young people can become aware of the importance of their daily actions to build a better future.
It was great the opportunity to think deeper about issues on sustainable development. Design plans which enable teachers to act on behalf of the Planet balance; finally to make sure that both current and future generations get a good quality of living standard.
On May 31, the University of the Basque Country, in collaboration with the Department of Education of the Basque Government and Berritzegune Nagusia, organized a training session titled "Ecosocial Education: Development of Skills for Sustainability." This event, connected with the Go-Green project, held in a hybrid format both in-person and online, gathered over 200 education professionals in the Juliana Agirrezabala assembly hall at the Bilbao Faculty of Education.
The complete database of lesson plans is available. The lesson plans have the aim to provide secondary school teachers and students with suggestion of activities to address the main challenges related to environmental and sustainable development. The lesson plan "Economics in Sustainability" answer the following challange "An existing factory in your area is proposing to convert its power source from the national power supply to incinerating garbage. This will divert garbage from land fill. This factory provides jobs in the area and needs to do this to cost cut to ensure the factory is viable into the future. Should this development go ahead? What factors would you consider when making this decision? Understanding the relationship between Economics and Economic Activity in Sustainability."
The fourth partners meeting took place in Bilbao (ES) on 21 - 22 March 2024. The following topics have been discussed:
• Validation of the lesson plans for secondary school teachers related to the integration of environmental sustainability at school
• Definition of the structure of the syllabus for the first and second year of the upper secondary school
• Clarification on the aim and procedure to organize the events to promote the Gogreen project
