- Begin a class with a poem Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver or Wendall Berry.
- Assign your class a business-related case study from CasePlace, by the Aspen Institute Center for Business Education.
- Reserve a computer lab and have a class take the Nature Conservancy’s Carbon Footprint Calculator. Or, pilot a new on-line carbon footprint calculator that is being developed by the Markkula Center’s Environmental Ethics Fellows and Sustainable Living Undergraduate Research Project.
- Take your class on a campus sustainability tour.
- Have your students research current sustainable practices in a relevant field and prepare a presentation or talking points in advance of the class meeting.
- Show the class The Story of Stuff.
- Take the class to the Forge Garden and ask them to do a writing reflection on how to make their eating habits more sustainable.
- Have the class translate a paragraph/page of the SCU sustainability website into the language you are studying.
- Ask students to critically review SCU’s Climate Neutrality Action Plan and submit comments via the online form.
- Choose an animal species or a habitat and prepare a ten-slide powerpoint presentation about how human consumption patterns affect it.
- Analyze the life-cycle of a product.
- Invite a speaker into your class to talk about a local environmental justice issue.
- Have the students attend David Orr’s talk on Wednesday, April 20th, and write a personal reflection on it for extra credit.
- Have your class tour the sustainability exhibit in the library.
- Contact librarian Michal Strutin, mstrutin@scu.edu, for the library's list of sustainability-related films.
- Visit the Disciplinary Associations Network for Sustainability website to investigate your discipline's sustainability initiatives.
- Host an in-class poetry slam featuring environmental poetry the students bring in and perform. Award a prize for the poem that best articulates the challenge of living a sustainable lifestyle.
- Invite the Director of the Office of Sustainability to give an overview of sustainability initiatives happening on campus. This presentation can be catered to focus on your course/discipline.
- Have students write Profiles or Project Highlights for the Office of Sustainability’s website and monthly e-mails, interviewing campus community members who are developing sustainability programs and telling their stories.
- Watch SCU undergraduate-produced videos or have your class create documentaries about sustainability as relates to your course.
This page has been created as part of the Sustainability Teach-In, co-sponsored by the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education, the Environmental Studies Institute, and the Office of Sustainability.
