Excited to be starting again

I'm back at work after giving birth to Skye 6 weeks ago. She's happily at home with her Dad and I'm really excited to be back in work. I thought I'd start this blog to let you know what's going on at Hotrock, to share the great resources we develop and find and to let you know of other inspirational stuff that I come across. I hope that you guys will share your ideas aswell and that it will become a useful site for teachers and educators who want to get sustainability into their curriculum and get new ways of teaching into (or indeed out of) their classrooms.

So just to start us off here are a couple of great websites. First off it has to be our one.....

www.thehotrock.org.au

Here you'll find out what we're up to in WA. News of the schools we work with, what's grwoing in their gardens and what they're doing in their classrooms. Most importantly, certainly from my perspective as curriculum developer, you'll find all the great resources we've developed for you to use. These are TOTALLY FREE and READY TO GO. They will help you get sustainablility into your curriculum, using ideas and materials which will get your class excited and motivated, whilst covering the topics that you need to cover. There are lots of modules and individual lessons in lots of different subject areas and all the materials you need are there to use. Lesson plans, powerpoints, worksheets, videos etc..........................

We're adding stuff all the time so sign up to our newsletter or follow this blog to find out when it comes out.

Recruiting - If you think that you could help us to develop more resources in your area then give us a shout. We are always looking to recruit new resource developers and we can pay you too! As ever I know its the difficulty of finding the time but its flexible work so if you can squeeze some extra work hours into your day let us know.

http://www.facingthefuture.org/

These guys are an american organisation who produce resources about sustainability and global issues. They are very original and use excellent teaching methods. There are quite a few that are free to download, e.g. a module on climate change, others are available to buy.

They also send out a newsletter and I found this link on there:

http://www.journalofsustainabilityeducation.org/wordpress/

I'm really looking forward to reading alot of these articles. I hope that it will help me when thinking about ways to develop our curriculum.

I'm looking forward to catching up with Richard, Ingrid and Shae to find out what's been going on in schools whilst I've been away (2 months is long time really, although it flew by.)

Thought for the day ..... Its noticing the little things that get us inspired about living sustainably. After a big storm last night there were lots of little wren like birds in our garden which I haven't seen there before.... beautiful..... I will have to find out what they are, I'm still learning about WA wildlife.

I'll post again soon....... Enjoy the hols if you're on them. Lucy