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Cross Curriculum Priorities

Develop your understanding of the sustainability cross curriculum priority area

Environmental educators professional learning session

Sustainability is a cross-curriculum priority for the Australian curriculum. 

There are many opportunities to integrate sustainability into the curriculum through:

  • learning content: developing students knowledge, understanding and skills about sustainability issues
  • pedagogy: student centred and action based learning, learning outside in nature, systems and critical thinking. 

Undertaking a curriculum review or audit is a useful tool to assess where sustainability is being addressed within your school curriculum. 

Curriculum mapping resources 

Curriculum audit resources 

Research & Policy 

Professional learning opportunities

Sustainability Action Process 

The Sustainability Action Process (SAP)  is a preferred pedagogical approach for teaching sustainability. It is a student-centred, project based methodology guiding students from investigating a sustainability issue, to developing and implementing a solution. 

Sustainable Schools NSW acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this nation. We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands on which we live, learn and work. We pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present. 

We are committed to honouring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waters and seas and their rich contribution to society. Sovereignty has never been ceded. It always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.