Sustainability Toolkit – SATLE 2022 project

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Ellen Curran, Kendra Paleczny, Kirsten Southard, Laoise Ní Mharcaigh, Riya Sunny

Organisation(s)

University College Dublin

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Arts and Humanities, Business, Education, Health and Welfare, Natural Sciences, , Teaching & Learning

Topic(s)

Digital Learning, Open Education, Student Success

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CC BY-SA

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This Toolkit was created by students at University College Dublin, for students, to break down sustainability in a way that’s simple and easy to understand. Climate change is something that affects all of us—no matter what you’re studying, where you’re from, or what you do. It’s here, and it’s impacting our world—but many of us aren’t sure what we can do about it.

The purpose of this toolkit is a starting point for what students need to learn about living more sustainably on and off campus. We hope it’ll inspire students to take small steps that make a big impact, and they can do it all at their own pace. You can access the Moodle page to view the Toolkit. There are also Zip files of the SCORM packages used to create the Toolkit (Part 1 and Part 2) that can be downloaded and imported into a Virtual Learning Environment.

• Part 1: Climate Change → Watch short Youtube videos followed by a little quiz to brush up on your sustainability knowledge.
• Part 2: What Can You Do? → Find tips and tricks to incorporate sustainability into your day-to-day life, this is a resource tool to help you get started!

Benefit of this resource and how to make the best use of it

The resource can be used to help students within your own context to understand climate change, become climate literate and to take climate action. It can be incorporated into your teaching, whether you are based on a university campus or a secondary school.

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Curran, E., Paleczny, K., Southard, K., Mharcaigh, L. N., & Sunny, R. (2025). Sustainability toolkit – satle 2022 project. National Resource Hub (Ireland). Retrieved from: https://hub.teachingandlearning.ie/resource/sustainability-toolkit-satle-2022-project/ License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA).

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