Educating students on environment will promote awareness, address the current challenges, and help build perspective toward environmental needs with sustainable development goals. In the present world scenario, there is consensus that children must be taught values of sustainability so that they can help future generations imbibe the same. From biodiversity to solar energy, there is now a need to build a greener earth, and in this journey, schools indeed play a key role in encouraging students to learn new ways to build sustainability.
TEACHING SUSTAINABLE WAYS OF LIVING
Teaching sustainable ways of living helps in creating a critical mindset among children. They understand that they need to look beyond the materialistic values of things and learn to appreciate their intrinsic value. Schools will help students learn reuse and recycling materials that will prevent wastage and over-production, which is the principal cause of over-industrialisation and carbon emissions. Recycling has taken the world by storm and schools need to take measures that will enable students to further intensify this approach.
SUSTAINABILITY IS BOTH AN INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM EFFORT
Sustainability involves everyone working together in small ways to achieve something huge. It is both an individual and a team effort. If you can get parents and guardians involved in your sustainability initiatives, the lessons will go deeper. This means that everyone needs to be involved and teachers and school leaders should lead by example.
Whether it is cycle-to-work initiatives, installing solar panels, or bringing lunch in sustainable packaging, sustainability must be modelled as well as taught. To be truly sustainable, schools should fully engage with these activities, which means helping teachers and staff members and going beyond the school gates.
LEARNING PRACTICAL SKILLS IS IMPORTANT
Children and the society\’s youth should be urged to undertake individual responsibilities, such as minimising resource usage, composting, reducing over-consumption, depending on clean energy sources, practising minimalism, and purchasing local and organic items. Education on sustainability will help them develop these sustainable life skills and practices.
