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Integrating sustainability into your subjects - LX at UTS

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Practical materials and teaching activities you can adapt on sustainability concepts and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Collection Content Situate sustainability in your discipline Take a sustainability quiz Introduce Sustainable Development Goals Calculate your ecological footprint Explore emotional dimensions of climate change

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Great collection! Love the fact that it is under a Creative Commons license.

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I really like how each resource is structured. That's useful itself to adapt for simple lesson planning.

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I love how there are warmers for the different activities - like you mentioned, before it can be hard to bring up the conversation

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It's great to have the lead-in about situating sustainability for different subjects. I'd be intrigued to have encountered something like this in say, Mathematics for instance.

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'Situate sustainability in your discipline' provides excellent ideas to get students to connect sustainability to any subject. I wonder if there could be a way for lecturers to share their variations on those icebreaker or reflection exercises?

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The remaining issue for me with the resource about linking sustainability to the discipline, is the lack of a Wiki tool with Canvas. IDEALLY I would get the students to load and co-critique the resources but Canvas does not support that (Yes?), Padlet is the alternative but I have a private subscription. Are the UTS Padlet licences?

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Minor concern... promoting Padlet and Google docs in 'tools and Resources'. Unfortunately These are not supported tools in the UTS T&L ecosystem.

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Terrific activity ideas, knowing that there's resources to integrate already makes it easy. It would be good to have clarity around the AQF level or suggested learning outcomes these align to (AQF level in particular to identity how to build up or scaffold for upper /lower levels)

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I'm a fan of Karen Costa (US educator) and she has been doing work around Climate Action Pedagogy e.g. https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/climate-action-pedagogy/

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It would come as no suprise that in the School of Life Sciences we have discipline specific resources on sustainability. We are also initiating a sustainable practice initiative in our research labs

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MIT's Climate Justice instructional toolkit

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Environmental Solutions Initiative | Focusing MIT's talents on the interdisciplinary environmental challenges of today

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As part of a larger initiative to expand climate justice education at MIT, the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative is excited to share the Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit.

The primary goal of these resources and programming is to provide support to faculty members and instructors across disciplines within introductory undergraduate courses to facilitate the integration of climate justice content and related instructional approaches into their courses.

Funded by the Alumni Class Funds Grant , the Toolkit houses a wide-range of climate justice adaptable teaching modules, a starter guide for teaching climate justice, resources for students and climate justice data sets that can serve as supportive tools to enhance professor and instructor teaching content and approaches across Departments, Labs and Centers (DLCs) at MIT. Although this Toolkit was designed with MIT as being its primary audience, it is also completely open for anyone to use.

Frequently Asked Questions
What is the intended audience of the Toolkit?

The Toolkit was designed with undergraduate introductory courses as the primary audience. However, the Toolkit could be adapted for advanced highschool contexts, used for student self-study, or potentially used for professional development.
How can I use this Toolkit in my classroom?

Browse through the modules and educational resources (below) and take and adapt what you need for your teaching context.

Gain ideas from the activity, assignment, and project options we provide in each module.

Flip the classroom by assigning a module for homework and focusing on discussion in the classroom.

Learn more about common pedagogies and strategies for teaching climate justice from the Starter Guide , or video lectures linked below.

Does the Toolkit cover climate science?

No, this Toolkit is focused on climate justice - the inequitable impacts of climate change on the world's most vulnerable groups, and the process of identifying and working on solutions to address these issues.
Can this Toolkit be used with audiences that are skeptical of climate change or climate justice?

The Toolkit was designed to be used with audiences that are already curious and interested in climate justice. However, many of the modules and resources available provide evidence and introductory material that may be helpful for partially skeptical audiences.

Evaluation & Assessment

We are interested in evaluating the effectiveness and uptake of the Toolkit to improve its resources for future iterations.

After exploring or using the climate justice resources (below), we would greatly appreciate it if you filled out . If you are more interested in collaborating and getting more involved (or contributing to the Toolkit) please contact the project lead, Chris Rabe ( cjrabe@mit.edu ).

Explore the Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit Resources
New to Climate Justice? Start Here.
Starter Guide (PDF Link): A Starter Guide for Teaching Climate & Environmental Justice

A white paper on Mapping and Expanding Climate and Environmental Justice in MIT's STEM Departments
Watch Video Lectures on Teaching Climate Justice from an MITX Course Teaching and Learning Resources for Faculty, Instructors, and Students Foundational Climate and Environmental Justice Modules Discipline-Specific Modules The Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit Team
Those who worked on the CJIT can be found here.

Materials on this page and within the Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit project are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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Instructional Toolkit | Environmental Solutions Initiative

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As part of a larger initiative to expand climate justice education at MIT, the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative is excited to share the Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit.

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Gala's collaborative learning case studies

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Find a case about contemporary sustainability issues to study or to teach as they are unfolding. It's now easy to find engaging teaching materials for use in classrooms and for public education.

Improve your ability to communicate complex topics by adding your own case study to Gala. Your media-rich cases and Gala's immersive user interface will delight instructors and learners.

Join conversations about sustainability issues that consider a wide range of perspectives. Share your own on our embedded forums, hear from others on our podcasts, and create your own unconventional solutions.

Javascript is required to use Gala.

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Find a case about contemporary sustainability issues to study or to teach as they are unfolding. It's now easy to find engaging teaching materials for use in classrooms and for public education. Improve your ability to communicate complex topics by adding your own case study to Gala.

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There is a whole sub-discipline of Higher Ed Chemistry education called "Green Chemistry" it is pretty wonderful in terms of embedding sustainable thinking in things like practical classes

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What are some alternatives to Google docs or Wiki spaces that students could use to collaborate?

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This toolkit resource can be useful for Business discipline

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Creative Commons (CC) are free, easy-to-use copyright licenses that provide a simple, standardized way to give your permission to share and use your creative work- on conditions of your choice. Even if the uses of CC seem relatively clear to artists and creators, the licenses have been more difficult to justify when the authors' activities involve commercial interests. The main goal of the CC Toolkit for Business is to allow professional individuals and organizations to understand why the use of CC licenses can be a strategic instrument to consider in their business models.

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Creative Commons (CC) are free, easy-to-use copyright licenses that provide a simple, standardized way to give your permission to share and use your creative work- on conditions of your choice. Even if the uses of CC seem relatively clear to artists and creators, the licenses have been more difficult to justify when the authors' activities involve commercial interests.

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What was involved in putting together an OER? Was it easy?

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In the Business School, we can share the information about how the sustainability aspects has become part of our everyday financial decisions. I believe, the collaboration of science department with business school is a very positive point in the progress of this module.

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Oops: Try again there is a sub-discipline of Chemistry Education: "Green Chemistry" which embeds sustainable thinking and practices into the design of teaching activities and resources

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What would you change about the process of creating the modules, if you do it again?

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Climate Simulator

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Explore the En-ROADS Simulator ❯

En-ROADS is a global climate simulator that allows users to explore the impact that dozens of policies-such as electrifying transport, pricing carbon, and improving agricultural practices-have on hundreds of factors like energy prices, temperature, air quality, and sea level rise.

Developed by Climate Interactive, the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative, and Ventana Systems, En-ROADS is a system dynamics model carefully grounded in the best available science, and has been calibrated against a wide range of existing integrated assessment, climate, and energy models. En-ROADS runs on an ordinary laptop in a fraction of a second, is freely available online, offers an intuitive user-friendly interface, and is available in over a dozen languages.

En-ROADS helps people make connections between things they care about and the possibilities available to help ensure a resilient future. Users can quickly see the long-term effects of the global climate policies and actions they imagine. The goal? To break through the noise and equip elected officials, business leaders, and others with the knowledge they need to implement equitable and high-leverage climate solutions. You can learn more about the science behind the simulator here.

Open the En-ROADS Simulator ❯

En-ROADS can be used individually online, but it is most often used as part of a facilitated group learning experiences: the En-ROADS Climate Workshop, the Climate Action Simulation game, or the En-ROADS Guided Assignment. These interactive events help participants gain key insights from the simulator, adopt new perspectives, and build grounded hope in a fun and engaging format. These experiences can be offered either in-person or via online platforms, and all materials are free.

We encourage you to join our online training to learn more about En-ROADS, its related experiences, and more. Our training covers: climate and energy system dynamics, interdisciplinary climate solutions, advanced facilitation tips, and more.

Join our free Training Program ❯

Anyone can lead En-ROADS events

A wide range of people have led En-ROADS events, including several national government leaders, a president of a major philanthropic foundation, chief sustainability officers, university professors, citizen leaders, and educators the world over. Facilitators from diverse backgrounds bring En-ROADS insights to their community through our interactive group experiences.

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Explore the En-ROADS Simulator ❯ En-ROADS is a global climate simulator that allows users to explore the impact that dozens of policies-such as electrifying transport, pricing carbon, and improving agricultural practices-have on hundreds of factors like energy prices, temperature, air quality, and sea level rise.

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Great way to gamify climate science

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Climate Fresk - All the cards are in your hands!

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"The Climate fresk generates enthusiasm: one finds in it the joy of understanding, of acting together, of stimulating one's creativity - all of this without denying the seriousness of the situation nor the urgency of acting efficiently, with solidarity and in an informed manner. Joy is found in reopening possibilities.

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Sustainable development education in the United Nations website

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I teach in East Africa and I sometimes feel like social justice and sustainability education are at odds. My students have very low carbon footprints with household incomes of $2-5 a day. Improving their lives and economic prospects will inevitably increase their carbon footprint, and I don’t think they should be made to feel bad about that.

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Quiz is difficult to translate and not ideal for ESL. Also may not help to tell students “you may find yourself denying research” right before we would presumably share research with them.