Looking for ready-to-use sustainability lesson materials?
Every resource is based on a carefully selected New Zealand School Journal article or story, giving students meaningful opportunities to engage with sustainability concepts through authentic New Zealand texts. Each lesson includes a student worksheet and a comprehensive resource pack featuring a lesson plan, student workbook, and word search activity. Covering topics across the Four Pillars of Sustainability, from climate change and environmental conservation to the significance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, these resources provide a simple, classroom-ready way to teach sustainability through School Journal content.
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EconomyEL2 201108 Power
$5.00 Add to cartStudents ‘think sustainably’ as they learn and explore deeper thinking about power generation and its environmental impacts by sequentially working through the student project sheet.
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Economy Level 2 ProjectsEL2 201308 Backyard Chooks
$5.00 Add to cart‘Backyard Chooks’ introduces students to growing their ‘eggs’ at home and the steps needed to make that happen. The same process can be inferred when examining other foods that can be grown and consumed at home.
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EconomyEL2 201811 The Plastic-free Challenge
$5.00 Add to cartThe Plastic-free Challenge engages students with the real-world issue of plastic pollution and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Inspired by students from Motueka South School, learners explore how small actions can create big environmental change while developing critical thinking, research, discussion, and problem-solving skills through a focused worksheet and engaging School Journal text.
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Economy Level 3 ProjectsEL3 201206 Living on a shoestring
$5.00 Add to cart‘Living on a shoestring’ introduces students to some key ideas about the choices we make when buying grocery items – differentiating between needs and wants and the associated monetary and environmental costs behind them.
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Economy Level 3 ProjectsEL3 201409 Mahinga Kai Crusaders
$5.00 Add to cart‘Mahinga Kai Crusaders’ introduces students to some key facts and issues surrounding the disappearance of traditional Maori food gathering sites – and how that relates to gathering food today for all of us.
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Economy Level 3 Projects
EL3 201409 The Ski Trip
$5.00 Add to cart‘The Ski Trip’ introduces students to some key ideas about how to save money through setting goals, being creative and having a positive attitude towards saving.
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Economy Level 3 ProjectsEL3 201411 Up the Pipe
$5.00 Add to cart‘Up the Pipe’ introduces students to some key facts about ‘wastewater’, its’ composition and how it can have a negative impact on our natural environment. Alternative products and their ingredients are explored through research and experimentation.
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Level 2NL2 201110 Tiakina a Tangaroa Protecting our seas
$5.00 Add to cart‘Tiakina a Tangaroa – Protect our Seas’ introduces students to some key facts about the issues our oceans are facing due to human impacts.