Lauren O'Connor's List: Websites

A great resource for teachers as it provides lessons to help teach ecological awareness as well as an interactive activity for students to help develop their awareness.

This website provides great ideas to help you go green in the classroom with tips for you, your school and your students.

This website provides different activities and ideas you can use in your classroom to help make it more eco-friendly. Some great ideas to help your students become more aware of what they can do to help our environment.

This website provides information on how to build a sustainable life. The site focusses on all things eco-friendly from water conservation to designing eco-friendly housing.

This is the home page of Queensland's own eco-friendly estate, The Eco-Village. This site provides information on the way this innovative estate is working towards helping our environment.

This website focusses on designing eco-friendly homes. It describes what n eco friendly home is and provides important features of an eco-friendly home. This website provides great information for students to research the designs of their own eco-friendling housing.

This website contains information on eco-friendlyhousing. It provides information on minimising impact on the environment by maximising utilisation of natural resources. This website provides useful information for students on using what is already around them to design and develop housing.

This website outlines all the ways in which you can incorporate natural building techniques when building a house. It provides detailed information on different natural materials used for housing and outlines the pros and cons of each material. A great resource for students to use when researching for the design of their eco-friendly house.

This website contains information about ecological footprints. It breaks down the overwhelming topic of global warming and sustainability and helps make clear the impact we have on our environment and what we can do to help.

This page details the home design process. It outlines aspects that need to be considered when designing your home to ensure it is successful. This page is a great resource for students to consider when designing their eco-friendly homes.

This page is a one-stop resource for students, teachers, and parents. It provides lessons, activities and information on architecture in the classroom.

Kids Design Challenge is a site dedicated to providing students with technology design challenges. Stage 3 of the kids design challenge focuses on "Built Environment" providing an environmental design challenge.

This website provides information on how to design and build a model of a house. It provides detailed instructions on how to construct a variety of different model houses that can be utilised by students to assist with the construction of their models.

This site provides information on designing an energy efficient home. It details aspects such as insulation, solar energy, water conservation, ventilation and energy ratings.

This webpage contains ways to help teach children to conserve energy. They are all ideas that can be incorporated in the classroom to help your students become more aware.

Tips to be more eco-friendly. These tips can easily be incorporated into your schools and classroom to help build and maintain an eco-friendly environment.

Provides background information on a kids design challenge run each year to encourage students to design and develop as a means of technology education.

This site contains numerous information sheets and exercises to enhance the study, understanding and teaching of design and technology. A great resource for both teachers and students.

A great resource for lesson ideas surrounding technology and the environment. This site provides a range of lessons based around components of environmental technology to help develop student understanding of the topic.