Education

Supporting sustainability in schools

"Education doesn’t give you the answers, but enables you to ask the questions!" Suzanne Connelly.

The Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board's Education Program supports environmental sustainability in Eyre Peninsula schools through activities, lessons and support tailored to each school's individual needs.

Our main focus is providing relevant, practical and powerful learning opportunities for students and educators and encourage enquiry-based learning, problem solving and future orientated thinking.

We are strong and active advocates for the adoption of the Australian Sustainable Schools Initiative (AusSSI-SA) and we are here to assist local EP schools in registering and developing their own sustainability plans. Please contact us via email or call us on 8688 3111 to speak with an Officer and start your schools registration process.

Thank you to the following 13 schools for already coming on-board and congratulations on your significant progress to date: Lake Wangary Primary School, Samaritan College, Tumby Bay Area School, St Josephs School Port Lincoln, McRitchie Crescent Children's Services Centre, Nicolson Avenue Primary School, Hincks Avenue, Samaritan College (OLHC campus), Samaritan College (St Teresa’s campus), Gabmididi Manoo Children and Family Centre, Cowell Area School, Kimba Area School, Kirton Point Primary School and Cleve Area School.

Support to schools includes:

links to expertise, resources, grants, contacts and loan equipment for environmental sustainability projects
visits and meetings with principals and staff to discuss needs and opportunities
implementing the principles of Education for Sustainability and engaging the whole school.

Support to teachers includes:

professional development sessions on a range of topics
classroom education sessions on a range of environmental issues
on-ground action projects, such as kitchen gardens.

Resources

A number of resources are available for downloading and use in the classroom. These include:

Understand more about marine parks in South Australian waters with this Secondary School Teacher Resource (Years 7 to 10) **new 2021**
Be part of an invention convention about marine parks in South Australian waters with this Primary School Teachers Resource (Years 5 and 6) **new 2021**
Secrets of the Sea Display resource
Discovering nature on the Eyre Peninsula resource
Rusty Loses His Loop free ebook and teacher educational booklet
Terry: Adventures of a Terek Sandpiper book and teacher educational booklet
Sustainable Seas teaching resource
Pest Tales resource for primary school teachers
Trees for Life starting seed kits information
'Watching Water' (6 min film) overview of SA's surface and groundwater resources, water science, planning ahead, climate change, trends and natural cycles, and access to data.
Scroll to the end of our soil page to find soil activities with a Soil Activity Pack for kids and adults

References

Further Information

For further information about how we can help you or your school, please contact us.

Funding partners

This project is supported by the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board, through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program.

Landscape South Australia - Eyre Peninsula