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
- Intro Workshop
- Ladder of Inference
- Language Acquisition
- Math
- Maths
- Natural Sciences
- Outdoor Education
- Professional Development
- Pyramid Lite (VISIS)
- SDGs
- Service Learning
- Social Emotional Learning
- Social Sciences
- Student Leadership
- Sustainability Compass
- Sustainable Development Project
- 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
- Intro Workshop
- Ladder of Inference
- Language Acquisition
- Math
- Maths
- Natural Sciences
- Outdoor Education
- Professional Development
- Pyramid Lite (VISIS)
- SDGs
- Service Learning
- Social Emotional Learning
- Social Sciences
- Student Leadership
- Sustainability Compass
- Sustainable Development Project
- Systems Iceberg
- Systems Mapping/Causal Loop Diagram
- Teacher Education
- Technology
- The AMOEBA
- The Arts
- Triangles Game
Grade 10 Individuals and Societies: An Engaging Sustainable Inquiry on Megacities
Summary This tenth grade/MYP 5 Individuals & Societies lesson plan aims to provide students the critical thinking skills they will need to analyze the problems …
Middle School Language Acquisition: Fast Fashion
Summary Students will use the Sustainability Compass and Systems Iceberg tools to explore the issues surrounding fast fashion, to help them plan and research for …
Grade 4 UOI How We Express Ourselves (Digital Media): Analysing How People Express Beliefs and Values Through Digital Media
Summary Students are onto the next Line of Inquiry to research how digital media contents express the authors’ beliefs and values.In the 3 lessons planned, …
Responsibility and Citizenship
Summary To provide students with opportunities to reflect on the impact of their actions within a current challenge we have at our school. Lost objects …
Grade 11 Systems Thinking and Sustainability: Behavior Over Time Graphs
Summary The learning plan introduces Behavior Over Time Graphs (BOTG) using human population through time as a concrete example.
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