ESD: Making connections
Education for Sustainable Development

ESD: Making connections

This course, which forms part of WWF's Education for a sustainable planet learning path, aims to help you further your understanding of sustainability and equip you with relevant information, tools, activities and good ideas from other skilled practitioners to make Education for Sustainable Development a cornerstone of your teaching practice.

What will you gain from the course?

  • An understanding of Earth as a living system;
  • An understanding of biodiversity, and its importance in a sustainable future;
  • A better understanding of systems thinking and how it can enhance education; 
  • Tools and techniques for introducing systems thinking in the classroom; and
  • Confidence using the Development Compass Rose to introduce and discuss issues around sustainability in the classroom.

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Course content

    • Module 1: Our planet, the one place we all call home
    • M1: Reflective Task
    • Module 2: Everything is connected
    • M2: Reflective Task
    • Module 3: The concept of biodiversity
    • MD3: Reflective Task
    • Module 4: Thinking in systems
    • MD4: Reflective Task
    • Module 5: Learning to think about systems
    • MD5: Reflective Task
    • Module 6: The development compass rose
    • Additional resources
    • Test