If you’re looking for ways to help teach and encourage your students to be more eco-friendly, take a look at these five simple tips for a greener classroom.

1. Organise a classroom / multi-classroom car share

Try to encourage the students in your class, who are driven to school to take part in a car pool. You could help organise this in your class. To encourage your students to organise car shares maybe you could try maintaining a league table showing who has saved the most petrol (which can also be converted into carbon emissions figures) by reducing the number of cars on the road. By making it competitive it might motivate your students to do their best.

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Google recently announced it is launching an initiative to create electricity from renewable sources at less cost than energy produced from coal. The initiative, called RE<C, is expected, in the words of Google co-founder Larry Page, to be completed “in years, not decades”.

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Here’s a tip for any eco-friendly health conscious teachers out there.

Encourage your students to have a healthy organic fruit snack rather than some packaging heavy junk food snack once a week. While their snacking, informally teach them about something environment or health related — tell them a little story or fact about the huge amount of packaging that goes into junk food products and how that packaging has to go somewhere after they throw it away, despite it being out of sight — there are plenty of surprising facts that’ll make your students go Wow.

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