Teaching Sustainable Development through indoor and outdoor activities

The poster refers to the curriculum of the subject “Education for sustainable development”, an optional subject for high school, that I designed for a time budget of 1 hour/week, with a duration of a school year. The aims of this curriculum are: the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach to some topical issues related to globalization, sustainable development and global citizenship; preparing high school students to understand the impact of problems that manifest themselves at the global level on individual and group development; the involvement of young people in the development and implementation of projects for development and in the promotion of appropriate behavior for sustainable development.

General skills are:

• The use of concepts specific to the discipline of Geography, Biology, Geology, Mathematics for the organization of knowledge and explanation of some facts, events, processes from real life;
• Applying the acquisitions specific to the Geography, Biology, Geology, Mathematics, Arts, ICT discipline in solving some problem situations, as well as in analyzing the personal contribution to sustainable development;
• Cooperating with others in solving theoretical and practical problems, within different groups;
• The manifestation of an active and responsible social behavior, appropriate to a changing world;
• Participation in decision-making and solving community problems;

At the end of this curriculum, team of students develop a project for local sustainable development using the components and stages of a project (design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, follow-up elements), developing and running/simulating the running of an project, elaboration of the project sheet, implementation of the proposed project/simulation of the implementation of the proposed project, evaluation of the proposed project.