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Who can participate?
It is free to participate in the Sustainable Living Challenge. The program is open to teachers and students from any subject area in any secondary school around Australia.
The Sustainable Living Challenge is open to every high school student, their teacher and school in Australia.
Sustainability is about equity and is relevant to all contexts. As a result, every effort is worthy at every level of ability - where ever you are in Australia and whatever level of resources your school has. This is a program that is designed for all schools.
The Sustainable Living Challenge is a great opportunity to profile sustainability education programs that are happening in your school. Projects will be considered at three levels:
- individual
- group
- whole school.
Given the complex nature of sustainability, the Sustainable Living Challenge is relevant to all key learning areas. The program provides a framework that can link diverse subject areas and foster collaboration across departments or stages. For example science, maths, english and arts could combine in an energy reduction advertising campaign in your school or community.
You do not have to create a specific project for the Sustainable Living Challenge, although many do. You can also use this umbrella program to obtain national recognition for the work you are doing in conjunction with other environment and sustainability initiatives (e.g. Streamwatch, Duke of Edinburgh etc).
So anyone can take on the Sustainable Living Challenge! Individual students, whole classes, even whole schools and their communities. But remember, the aim of the Sustainable Living Challenge is not to create more work for teachers, it is to support and recognise the amazing work that is already happening.
