Introducing sustainability
I can explain what sustainability means to me and start to identify choices that can be made with this in mind.
- Year 5
Introducing sustainability
I can explain what sustainability means to me and start to identify choices that can be made with this in mind.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Sustainability can be defined as meeting the needs of today without preventing future generations from doing so.
- There is great inequality across the world about who gets what, where, when and why.
- We have some power to enact some choices about where we go, how we get there, what we eat and what we do.
Keywords
Consumption - Consumption is the process of using up resources.
Inequality - Inequality is when something is not shared evenly between everyone.
Natural resources - Natural resources are those that come from Earth without human influence and can be used for human needs.
Common misconception
Children may believe that renewable resources are 'safe'.
Explain that even water - a renewable natural resource - could become too polluted to use or if trees are cut down quicker than they can be replanted then that supply of wood will be exhausted.
Content guidance
- Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What are natural resources?
Q2.Which of these are natural resources?
Q3.What does the term 'exhaustible' mean in relation to natural resources?
Q4.Natural resources are distributed around the world.
Q5.What does it mean if a resource is 'unevenly distributed' around the world?
Q6.What is the link between natural resources and the world's population?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of these are basic human needs?
Q2.Match the keyword to the definition.
