Compass Lesson Plans
Educator-sourced lesson plans for sustainability in education
To become a Compass Practitioner (Level 1 certified), educators who have been through one of our Level 1 courses must create and implement a lesson plan for using systems thinking tools in their context. These lesson plans range in scope. Some educators focus on units or lessons, and some even focus on their broader school programs. Each lesson plan reflects and demonstrates how the Compass Tools enhanced students learning.
- All
- Behavior Over Time Graphs (BOTG)
- Community Project
- Design Thinking
- Education Program Development
- English Language and Literature
- Environmental Education
- Gilman's Equation
- Global Citizenship Education
- Health and Wellbeing
- Humanities
- IB Education
- Ladder of Inference
- Language Acquisition
- Math
- Natural Sciences
- Outdoor Education
- Professional Development
- Pyramid Lite (VISIS)
- Resource Pack
- SDGs
- Service Learning
- Social Emotional Learning
- Social Sciences
- Student Leadership
- Sustainability Compass
- Sustainable Development Project
- Sustainable Habits of Mind
- Systems Iceberg
- Systems Mapping/Causal Loop Diagram
- Teacher Education
- Technology
- The AMOEBA
- The Arts
- Triangles Game
- All
- Behavior Over Time Graphs (BOTG)
- Community Project
- Design Thinking
- Education Program Development
- English Language and Literature
- Environmental Education
- Gilman's Equation
- Global Citizenship Education
- Health and Wellbeing
- Humanities
- IB Education
- Ladder of Inference
- Language Acquisition
- Math
- Natural Sciences
- Outdoor Education
- Professional Development
- Pyramid Lite (VISIS)
- Resource Pack
- SDGs
- Service Learning
- Social Emotional Learning
- Social Sciences
- Student Leadership
- Sustainability Compass
- Sustainable Development Project
- Sustainable Habits of Mind
- Systems Iceberg
- Systems Mapping/Causal Loop Diagram
- Teacher Education
- Technology
- The AMOEBA
- The Arts
- Triangles Game
Lesson PlanUpper Primary
Design for a Better Future
Summary The learning plan explores how design serves as a problem-solving tool across diverse communities, highlighting its impact on addressing unique local challenges. It also ...
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Lesson PlanUpper Primary
Year 6 Sharing the Planet: Biodiversity Relies on Maintaining the Interdependent Balance of Organisms within Ecosystems
Summary Consolidation of understanding of biomes, ecosystems, food webs and human actions on the environment. Impact on Learning Students were truly engaged in this and ...
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Lesson PlanLower PrimaryUpper Primary
Ecosystem Causal Loops
Summary Students use ‘ecosystem cards’, representing different parts of an ecosystem, to make connections between parts and think about and discuss how things impact each ...
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Lesson PlanLower Primary
Grade 1: The Ripple Effect – Reflecting on Classroom Behavior
Summary Students reflect on their actions in the classroom and discuss how and what they impact. Students connect different actions and identify patterns to support ...
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Lesson PlanUpper Primary
Theatre and Sustainability
Summary Students will take a journey of understanding the connection between sustainability and Theatre. There will look for connections between the systems thinking tools, Sustainability ...
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