School and Community Links
This section of the site provides links to resources specifically for elementary and secondary education (c.4-18 years old) and community initiatives relating history and sustainability that operate beyond the higher education sector. We hope to facilitate links between education sectors and demonstrate the relevance of history in the rapidly developing field of Education for Sustainable Development.
General resources
Environmental Science Published for Everybody around the Earth (ESPERE)
Site providing digests of environmental science and research developments for a ‘lay’ audience of all ages. Information is provided in a range of western and eastern European languages, all with top quality academic review. Material is provided for schoolteachers in some countries.
Nature Transformed: the Environment in American History
Essays provided by academics to assist schoolteachers covering a range of major topics in American environmental history.
Sustainable Development – Department for Children, Schools and Families
UK government education for sustainable development site.
Education for Sustainable Development – UNESCO
United Nations site for the Decade for Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014)
Schools Project Sites
Rhine River Project (in German)
Example of an environmental and oral history project involving schools and the community in collecting and interpreting material in Germany.
Worcestershire Parish Mapping Project
Schools project raising local environmental and historical awareness in England, linking knowledge of the current and historic environment, and interpretative artwork.