NAEE’s curriculum guides and other resources support primary and secondary schools in embedding environmental education across a wide range of subjects.
Green Steel: the transition away from carbon
Published: 2023
Manufacturing steel without huge CO2 emissions – to produce green steel – is an important industrial priority and a great challenge. This resource is aimed at secondary school science teachers. It explores what steel-makers are doing to find low-carbon and zero-carbon routes to steel.
NAEE’s 2022 Young People’s Learning and the Environment Manifesto
Published: 2022
The Manifesto’s purpose is to build on existing work in schools and colleges and further stimulate change in thinking and practice. Doing this means that young people can be even better prepared to meet the social and environmental challenges they will face through their lives, and be ready to contribute to solving them. The manifesto is aimed at school and college leaders and governors, teachers, pupils and students, and is relevant to policy makers, administrators, inspectors, teacher educators, and NGO education teams.
Schools’ key role in preparing students for green jobs
Published: 2022
In this, we argued for all school leavers to have an essential understanding of key environmental issues. Our key point was: We call for all school leavers to have an essential understanding of key environmental issues. We say this because a knowledge and understanding of the essence of, and background to, all this cannot be the responsibility of every employer, just as essential numeracy and literacy are not. As with literacy and numeracy, it ought to be the responsibility of schools to work with students to develop appropriate attitudes, knowledge, understanding and skills related to living and working as though nature mattered. NAEE provided written evidence to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee inquiry into Green Jobs.
Environmental Education through STEM
Published: 2020
NAEE has recently had this paper published in School Science Review. It explores how STEM subjects can enable students to learn about the key environmental issues that we face, using NAEE’s teacher handbooks about The Environmental Curriculum and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Developing Sustainability: helping school governors influence whole school approaches
Published: 2020
This report explores how governing boards can help evaluate and develop their school’s approaches to environmental sustainability, posing questions that they might ask about what their school is doing. It arises from a collaboration with the National Governance Association and complements the NGA’s own guidance on sustainability, which can be downloaded here.
Environmental Education and the Sustainable Development Goals
Published: 2015
This report explores curriculum opportunities in primary and secondary schools for a consideration of the goals. It uses curriculum analysis and school and NGO case studies to stimulate further work in schools to engage young people in learning about local and global environmental issues.
