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This web site has been designed to be a fun and informative introduction to sustainable or eco-friendly living. It has been specifically designed for use in primary schools for Key Stage 2 pupils, although many of the pages and activities could be used by children at home.
Curriculum Links includes...
butterfly
The curriculum context to help see where sustainabililty fits into the curriculum.
vegtables
A specially written QCA Joint unit which links Geography Unit 8 'Improving the Environment' and ICT Unit 4D 'Collecting and presenting information: questionnaires and pie charts.' This unit has been written with activity plans, examples of children's work and downloadable resources to support the work. It also provides data sets where pupils can enter their classes data and compare with other schools in Kent.
flowers
Literacy links containing a vocabulary list, poetry challenge, prefix activity and a sustainability fiction book list.
ladybird Diaries and resources for cross curricular themed days focusing on sustainability issues.
Other teacher's pages...
fish A web links page which highlights examples of other web sites which could be used to support sustainability work.
The recycling centre page introduce the "waste free lunch challenge" where visiting schools are encouraged to bring low impact lunches to the Centre. Data collected during this activity is posted on the pages so that schools can compare their success and use for data handling exercises.
sun
The CEEC Eco-Centre page. Information on the Centre's progress in becoming an Eco-centre.
Children's pages include...
earth
The respect, reduce, reuse, repair, restore, recycle and responsibility pages have been written for children as simple introduction to these different areas.
t-shirt
The eco-challenges pages have been designed to be used as whole class or group activities to promote discussion about how different objects could be used again.
computer
The web enquiry has been written to help children locate information within the Eco-explorer website.
newspaper
The glossary contains definitions of many of the words used within this web site. (Children can also click on these underlined words in the text to see a pop up definition.)

 

 

 

 

 

We would like to thank all the pupils at Joy Lane Junior School, Whitstable and the Eco-ICT club at Sellindge Primary School for all their hard work in producing the pictures, displays and other examples of work that feature on this website.

Content and design by Sue Parsons, Rebecca Morgan and Jo Leech.
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