Step 4 Curriculum Links

• Environmental issues have been covered in at least three areas of your school curriculum; this is clearly evident in pupil’s work and/or schemes of work and lesson plans.
• OPTIONAL FOR FIRST GREEN FLAG: Your three curriculum links can not all be from the same year group or subject area.
• Your three curriculum examples do not have to be from the same Eco-Schools topics as those chosen for your Action Plan.

Direct links to all Eco-Schools topics can be found in GCSE and A’ Level Geography, Biology, Chemistry and Physics.

Give our Gathering Curriculum Evidence resource to your teachers to easily gather the evidence you need for a Green Flag award.

Why not translate the following international Eco-Schools websites and resources in your Modern Foreign Languages lessons:

• Eco-Schools France
• Eco-Schools Spain
• Eco-Schools Germany
• Eco-Schools Italy

Work with the English,  Media and Technology Departments to help with Step 5 Informing and Involving.

Ask the Maths Departments to help with Step 6 Monitoring and Evaluation.

Let the Drama and Music Departments make your Step 7 Eco-Code a showstopper!

Friends of Eco-Schools, the Geographical Association, have collaborated with the Eco-Schools team to produce this guide linking Geographical Associations publications, lesson plans, books and resources to each of the ten Eco-Schools topics. Whilst many of the resources are free, check whether your institution is a member of the Geographical Association for full access.

Does our curriculum evidence have to be from the same topics we have in our Action Plan?

No, it can be from any of our ten topics.

How many pieces of evidence do we need?

For your Green Flag application you briefly need to list where in the curriculum the three links are from. During your Green Flag Assessment visit our assessor will need to see evidence of this; so make sure to point it out as you show them around your school. Your Eco-Coordinator may also have some examples they  want to share with the Assessor from their teaching files (and marking piles).

How can we find this evidence?

It should be easy to find examples from the whole school as to where Eco-Schools and the curriculum overlap. An easy example of this is that it is compulsory to teach a foreign language – this links perfectly with our Global Citizenship topic. But remember if in doubt, go to the Geography Department, they practically cover every Eco-Schools topic at some point!

Can all of our evidence be from the same class?

No, we would like to see evidence from different year groups and subjects please.

We have found our evidence, what next?

We would like you to display this evidence on your Eco-Board: you can do this by choosing a few good examples maybe one from each member of the Eco-Committee (you should all be from different year groups for Step 1 criteria) and photocopying for display.