Resources for ResourceSmart Schools
EEV’s Easy actions to get active fast
We’ve created step by step guides to to help you with:
Setting up a login for the new RSS online system (NB this alone won’t make you active, but it’s a crucial first step)
End your year on an RSS high! Three great actions to take now:
1. Get your summer garden support in place!
Do you need parent/carer volunteers to help look after your school garden, worms, chooks, trees etc this summer? Put the call out in your newsletter or fb!
Action: Add a detailed comment to Biodiversity C2.3 about how parents/carers are involved
Optional: upload a screenshot of the notice
2. Get the community ready for the festive season with some hot tips!
Could your students write some tips to share with the school community in the newsletter or fb page? It could be about how to care for wildlife on hot days, what to do in the garden over summer (Biodiversity module). Or how to reduce waste over the festive season (Waste), or even how to stay cool without using lots of energy (Energy).
Action: Share the evidence of these tips being shared to C3.3 in the relevant module(s).
3. Do you have a student action team or student environment leaders?
Get them to write a reflection on 2023, relevant to RSS. What activities and programs have they led? What initiatives have they been involved in? What has their leadership looked like (how often have they met, who’s supported them, etc)? What advice do they have for next year’s team/student leaders? If possible, include some photos!
Action: Upload this to one or more of the following in the module(s) most relevant to their focus: C1.2, C2.1, C2.2 for Waste, Water, Biodiversity, and/or Energy
If you also share this reflection in a school newsletter, or on the school’s website or FB page, then you can also add it to Core C1.5
Recent ResourceSmart Schools Newsletters
Biodiversity Resource Library
See a list of online resources available from organisations aross the state, that can help you learn about your local biodiversity and deliver lessons.
BIOdiversity School Program Library
See a list of school progams and citizen science opportunities, run by organisations across the state, that your school can link in to.
Want to suppoRt local biodiversity? Where Do you start?
How much do you know about your local biodiversity? What habitat types exist in your local area? How much of it is left? What are the characteristic and common local native plant and animal species? Are there any threatened species found in your area? Is it a huge job to research these answers?
In this recorded session, we give you a crash course in using free online resources to answer to all those questions and more, leaving you ready to start planning biodiversity activities that your school can run to protect and support local species!
Supporting Student Wellbeing and Student Voice
Why does student voice matter? How can we support our young people to have a sense of agency and hope in this deeply challenging time?
In this recorded session, we explore the links between student voice and student wellbeing, plus how you can support your students to get more active in more meaningful ways! We'll start by hearing from the experts at VicSRC (we'll be joined by the CEO, Nina Laitala, and a current student representative) then we'll hear from a teacher and their student action team who will share their journey of student empowerment.
Student Action & Leadership in RSS
Check out our guide to the most relevant actions and opportunities.
Make the Most of the Aussie Bird Count
Get your students involved in Aussie Bird Count week! Use the results to help you complete your biodiversity audit (specifically, the native species section of the audit) and to mark off other RSS actions.
Here are two great resources we’ve made for you:
A document linking activity ideas and resources to the Victorian curriculum and to RSS! Super helpful, right?
A checklist your students can use to identify and track birds in your school grounds
Get twitching and get active in RSS!
10 easy resourcesmart activities to finish 2023 on a high!
Here are some easy tasks to get back on track with ResourceSmart Schools.
Tick a couple of these easy activities off, and finish 2023 on an environmental high!
ResourceSmart Activities that can be done ANYWHERE, ANYTIME!
Twenty actions you can complete to continue your ResourceSmart Journey
Integrate biodiversity learning into english curriculum
Enter the Poetry Competition to be in the running for fantastic prizes.
Book a free Zoom Incursion with award winning Australian Poet, Lorraine Marwood. Lorraine will guide your students to write a poem about Our Precious Platypus, which students can enter in the competition.
Free resources about Platypus Poetry and learning about Platypus habitat and biology.