Resources

Sustainability: Making a Start

In this Teachers TV video, designer Kursty Groves visits Haydon School to help the design and technology department introduce sustainable issues into its projects. Kursty believes that most design and technology teachers are aware that environmental issues have never been more important and sustainable...

Sustainable and Recycled Textiles

This film clip looks at how fashion can be created by disassembling, re-cutting and transforming old garments. One business that is using recycled textiles in this way is Junkies Design, who sell their products to an exclusive market. Items in their winter collection are demonstrated, including a jacket made from...

Sustainable Communities

This resource consists of a series of images, audio commentary and videos of sustainable design features in a community. These are:

The aim of the resource is to share some of the findings of an Economic and...

This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

Sustainable Construction and the Built Environment

These technical briefs focus on low cost approaches related to sustainable construction and materials.

Technical briefs are documents produced by Practical Action which are freely...

Sustainable dancefloors

This activity, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), gives students the opportunity to develop their understanding of graphs in an engineering context. Students learn about dance floors that generate electricity and consider how output is linked to...

Sustainable design - lesson idea

This resource provides classroom activity and a presentation on sustainable design.

This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

Sustainable Design Challenge

Using this resource students are required to construct an environmentally friendly model of a school building with consideration to sustainability of materials used and the effects of them on the surroundings with respect to carbon emissions.

Sustainable Design: Volvo Life Cycle Assessment

This film clip shows how life cycle assessment has resulted in changes to many of the materials used in the production of Volvo cars. The Life Cycle Assessment team test new low emission materials, such as safe plastics and novel textiles, to ensure they have a neutral smell. This is an ongoing process, with...