One of the challenges of our time is the pressure our societies face as the climate changes and the Earth's resources must suffice for both humans and animals. To prepare future generations, schools and other educational institutions must collaborate with society to create authentic contexts and help pupils build competences such as problem-solving and teamwork.  

In this challenge, you will work with the Skattkammarön school in Norrköping to explore how environmental and sustainability education can happen out-of-classroom, in the school's local environment, and in collaboration with various stakeholders and organisations that approach sustainability from different angles.   

Skattkammarön is an innovative “In Rain and Shine” school, teaching outdoors all year round. They need your help to design new and creative way to develop their environmental and sustainability education in the surrounding urban and natural environment. The teachers at Skattkammarön include several learning arenas in their out-of-classroom teaching. They visit venues such as museums, science centres, the district court and churches, while the forest is within walking distance, and a zoological garden just a short drive away.   

Your task is to propose new ways the school and city stakeholders can work together to provide children and youth engaging and relevant environmental and sustainability education. You will plan and motivate learning activities that are creative and involve several societal actors.  

You will work in small groups under the guidance of a teamcher. At the end of the challenge each group will present their ideas of a tentative teaching activity or module. The final assignment is a written description of the project.

Transcript of Records is an official document issued by your home university. It specifies the name of the institution, the academic programme you are enrolled in, the list of courses taken up until the current period, the exams or tests you passed, the grades and the credits you earned. 

Transcript of Records

Linkoping University

a person and a boy in the woods looking at a paper

Beyond classroom walls: sustainability education in a changing world

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Skattkammarön

Associate partner

Skattkammarön