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The Youth Eco-Challenge - A VCAL resource
The Youth Eco-Challenge is a complete package for running an experiential sustainability subject within the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning.
It is available for download free of charge and includes session plans, activities, handouts, worksheets and other resources. It can be taught over one semester and engages students in sustainability, while meeting the learning outcomes of the Personal Development Strand, as well as some of the Numeracy and Literacy learning outcomes. It will also be available as a full year subject in the future.
The Youth Eco-Challenge is designed as a complete package, but you can also pick and choose units and activities, and download bits as you need them. Section A is a series of overview documents to get you started. The classes, and all the resources you need to run them, are divided across sections B, C and D. This curriculum was developed out of the Youth Eco-Challenge project we ran from 2006 to 2010. It was part of our Regional Sustainable Living Program, and we ran it through schools and with other young people in the community.
Click on the images to flick through documents online. Then click on the document titles (marked with small blue triangles) to download the ones you want. Or download the whole thing. Or contact us and we'll post you it on CD.
A) Teacher Introduction
Introduction to the Youth Eco-Challenge
This document is the starting point for finding out about the YEC
VCAL learning outcomes matrix
This is an Excel sheet which can be edited
VCAL learning outcomes matrix
Print version
Index of units
Lists all of the units offered in the YEC
B) Core Environmental Themes
Unit 1 Introduction to Sustainability
Unit 2 Interact with the Environment
Unit 3 Energy Production and Use
Unit 5 Waste and Water Field Trip
Unit 6 Water Flowing Around Us
Unit 8 Calculating Our Water Footprints
Optional units for full year subject, to be uploaded at a later date:
Optional: Unit 4a Alternative Energy
Optional: Unit 4b Embodied Energy in What We Buy
Optional: Unit 8a Water and Waste
C) Personal Challenge
Unit 10 Introducing the Personal Eco-Challenge
D) Project
Unit 11 Introduction to Project Design and Management
Unit 14 Publicity and Communication Skills
Unit 16 Celebration and Evaluating Project Results
If you would like to give feedback or suggestions on the Youth Eco-Challenge VCAL resource, please contact us.
