The Sustainability Teaching Resource Library contains around 100 reports, toolkits, multimedia and more, to support faculty creating and updating teaching materials. Curated and maintained by the Sustainability Hub to advance sustainability teaching and learning at UBC.

Phylo: The Trading Card Game

Phylo is a card game that makes use of the wonderful, complex, and inspiring things that inform the notion of biodiversity; and an exercise in crowd-sourcing, open access, and open game development.

Keywords: Biodiversity, Ecology, Interactive Education
Link to Resource: https://oer.open.ubc.ca/phylo-the-trading-card-game/

Ecological Systems
Natural Resources
Educational resource
Course Activities & Assignments
2010
David Ng

In-Class Activities to Develop Student Scientific Thinking

Six videos cover topics of pollination, sustainable fisheries, invasive species, wildfire management, water resources and alternative energy production. These video prompted in-class activities provide an opportunity to bring to community voices and perspectives into the classroom while developing scientific thinking.

Keywords: Biofuels, Fisheries, Crop pollination
Link to Resource: https://oer.open.ubc.ca/asking-scientific-questions/

Climate Change & Energy
Ecological Systems
Natural Resources
Educational resource
Course Activities & Assignments
Tara Ivanochko

Exploring Climate Change and Mental Health

This toolkit is designed for use by educators to empower students to think critically about the structural and socio-political inequities that affect them while centering climate change and mental health through embedded reflective exercises

Keywords: Climate Change, Plantery Health, Mental Health
Link to Resource: https://oer.open.ubc.ca/exploring-climate-change-and-mental-health/

Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems
Educational resource
Toolkit and Guides
2022
Natania Abebe

Open Case Studies at UBC

Many of these case studies focus on topics in sustainability, but they also include cases on other topics that benefit from an interdisciplinary approach.  

Keywords: Forestry, Social Justice, Conservation
Link to resource: https://cases.open.ubc.ca/case-studies/

Climate Change & Energy
Natural Resources
Policy, Economics & Governance
Educational resource
Case Studies
Open Case Studies UBC

Climate-Kind Pedagogy: Cultivating climate justice informed approaches and kindness in educational curricula

The Climate-Kind Pedagogy framework offers an interdisciplinary approach to climate education that goes beyond Western ideologies and embraces alternative worldviews for effective and inclusive climate education. The aim of the project is to establish an adaptable framework and toolkit for educators to increase learner engagement with and awareness of the climate emergency.

Partner: UBC Sustainability Hub
Funder: UBC
Keywords: leadership & behaviour change, social sustainability, sustainability in education 

Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems
UBC Sustainability Scholars report
Educational resource
PDF
2023
Zahira Tasabehji

Developing a novel pedagogical framework: Climate-Kind Pedagogy

This project aims to create a novel pedagogical framework designed to address the climate crisis through kindness and compassion for the planet and one another. By documenting successful teaching pedagogies in both climate education and kindness education, this novel pedagogy synthesizes a vast body of educational research in an effort to create actionable strategies for teachers. This novel pedagogical framework was infused into EDCP 349, a B.Ed. course at the University of British Columbia. 

Partner: UBC
Funder: UBC Sustainability Hub
Keywords: sustainability in education 

Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems
UBC Sustainability Scholars report
Educational resource
pdf
2022
Henry Johnston

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