The Circular Classroom is a free, trilingual (English, Finnish + Swedish) educational resource for students and teachers alike. It is designed to integrate circular thinking into high school classrooms, all packaged up in a fun, beautiful mixed media format.
The Circular Economy Curriculum is designed for use in high schools, offers tools to learn how to redesign products and services so that they are more sustainable, equitable, and effective at meeting our humans needs without creating negative consequences to the planet.
Curriculum
What’s inside this kit
This kit contains a series of interactive educational tools that includes worksheets and videos designed to integrate circular thinking into the classroom. Visit the educators’ hub for a range of extra resources that help to design incredible in-class learning around the Circular Economy.
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Sustainability provocateur, award-winning designer, UNEP Champion of the Earth, and creative changemaker pioneer, Dr. Leyla Acaroglu challenges people to think differently about how the world works. Leyla’s main-stage TED talk on sustainability has been viewed over a million times, she is the founder of the UnSchool and creator of the Disruptive Design Method. As as a renowned international expert on systems thinking and sustainability, she runs workshops around the world and designs unique educational experiences that help equip people with the tools to intervene and change systems to make the status quo obsolete. Leyla is sought after for her unique approach to activating positive social change by design.
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This kit was designed to fit alongside the Finnish school curriculum. There is a table at the back that shows the alignment, and can be adapted to your particular context.
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