Begin by opening your learning journal for this activity.

Ideally, education for a sustainable future should permeate the entire school curriculum, with every subject area, at every year level, dealing with aspects of sustainability in some way.

Some subjects, by their very nature, present greater opportunities for such infusion than others, but all subjects have a very important role to play.

The Contributions of Existing School Subjects

This activity illustrates that education for a sustainable future can be infused into a wide range of subject areas.

Read examples of the ways in which objectives and themes that promote learning for a sustainable future can be reflected in a wide range of subjects across the curriculum.

	Agricultural Studies		Home Economics
	The Arts		Mathematics
	Commerce and Business Studies		Manual Arts and Technology
	First Language Studies		Religious Education
	Second Language Studies		Science
	Health and Physical Education		Social Studies

Source: Adapted from Gough, N. (1992) Blueprints for Greening Schools, Gould League, Melbourne, pp. 80-81.

Match the learning experiences with the appropriate subject areas where they might be taught.

Q4: Identify three subject areas you like to teach. For each one, list at least three learning experiences that could be developed to infuse learning for a sustainable future.

See a completed table of learning experiences and the twelve subject areas.

Teaching about the Earth Charter

The Earth Charter is a declaration of the interdependence of all living and non-living things on Earth. It is also a statement about the principles and values needed to build a global partnership for sustainable development.

The focus of the Earth Charter is sustainable human development. How might the principles and values in the Earth Charter be taught through different subjects in the school curriculum?

Review a summary of the relevance of the Earth Charter to teaching in the following subject areas:

	The Arts
	Language Studies
	Mathematics
	Science
	Technology