We’re working to build knowledge, one learning at a time.
3 of 34 WithOnePlanet video resources
The Hon. Steve Bracks AC – Australian citizenship
MyCarbonCapture
Connecting schools
WithOnePlanet open education supports teaching about environmental viability, culture awareness, active citizenship and linking school communities in Australia and Timor Leste through technology and travel programs.
WithOnePlanet is an inquiry- and challenge-based teaching and learning method that focuses the environmental education through three themes: carbon (where we live), culture (who we are) and citizenship (how we live).
The resources for years Foundation to 10 are designed to meet the requirements of the Australian Curriculum. The resources for livelihood skills focus on permaculture techniques to improve food production and security.
WithOnePlanet encourages students to gain an insight and better understand the importance of the carbon cycle to the future survival of the planet on which we depend, through the exploration of science, our culture and the role of active citizenship in creating fair and equitable societies.
The INQuIRY teaching and learning method provides opportunities for teachers to engage students in single or cross-disciplinary areas of study and explores climate change issues through the science, English, maths, geography, history, art and citizenship curriculums.
Students are encouraged to formulate lines of inquiry, to question and investigate, to review and share information and to build the knowledge to make our region a more interesting, sustainable and better place.
WithOnePlanet is a companion program of WithOneSeed and WithOneBean that work with communities in Australia and across the Asia-Pacific region to make environments sustainable, to end poverty and hunger, to increase access to education and to build regional relationships.
WithOnePlanet is auspiced by the xpand Foundation, a social enterprise committed to an inclusive society that values the sustainable livelihood and happiness of every individual.
Examples of the WithOnePlanet teaching and learning resources for years F to 10
Do you know
Do you know that only 50% of children in Timor Leste complete primary school?
Do you know that worldwide in 2012 there were more than 32 million people displaced due to natural disasters? This is 4 million more than the combined populations of Australia and New Zealand.
Do you know that more than 46% of the world’s population is now younger than 25 years old?
Do you know that worldwide there are 25 hectares of fertile land being reduced to desert every minute?
Do you know that 1 minute of YouTube streaming is equivelent to 0.01gm of carbon; that the average YouTube video view is 4 minutes and that there are over 2 billion views a day?
Do you know that on average there are over 4.5 million Facebook likes every day?
Do you know that 1,811 tons of CO2 emissions are generated from the internet every minute? That is approximately 2 million tons annually?
Do you know that more than 400,000 people living in China die every year from illness and disease related to air pollution?
Do you know that renewable energy is cheaper to produce than energy from fossil fuels?
Do you know that worldwide more than 3,000 mobile phones are purchased every minute?
Do you know that every year more than 4 billion plastic shopping bags are discarded which then causes the death of over 2,000 birds and mammals every minute?
Do you know that 40% of all bottled water sold in the world is bottled tap water?
Do you know that Australia has 444 threatened species, of which 121 are mammals?
Do you know that trees play a specific and important role in the global carbon cycle by absorbing carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, storing carbon above and belowground, and producing oxygen as a by-product of photosynthesis?
Do you know that children are more likely than adults to perish during natural disasters or succumb to malnutrition, injuries or disease in the aftermath?
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