From Eco Club to Curriculum: How to Scale Student-Led Change and Project-Based Learning

What if student-centered learning meant your students were running the coolest business venture at school—and made £5,000 in a weekend?

Join me as we sit down with Ed Moore, an award-winning primary teacher and author of "100 Ideas for Primary Teachers for Greener Schools," to explore how environmental education becomes the catalyst for project-based learning, youth empowerment, and community engagement—whether you're teaching internationally or in your own backyard.

Discover how one teacher's passion for gardening transformed an entire school culture—and caught the attention of Dr. Jane Goodall and King Charles.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• How to embed environmental projects directly into your curriculum (not as an afterthought club) so every child benefits
• Practical, implementable ideas you can start tomorrow—from energy audits to student-led businesses that teach real-world skills like marketing, sales, and finance
• Why starting small in your own classroom creates a domino effect that eventually transforms your entire school
• How to leverage community experts and local businesses to amplify student learning and build genuine connections beyond the classroom

Unlock 100 practical project-based ideas for creating greener schools—and learn how to empower your students to become changemakers.

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Ed's Bio: Ed is a primary school teacher with experience in Early Years, Key Stage 1 and 2. Ed is passionate and enthusiastic about the environment, learning outdoors, gardening and young enterprise. Ed has integrated all these topics into the school curriculum encouraging children to lead and have a voice in these subjects by becoming experts themselves. This has been accomplished by each class making a pledge across the school each term to help people, animals or the environment. These qualities and subjects help drive and inspire innovative projects engaging children, staff and volunteers across the school and the wider community to join together.

In a previous school, Eco Schools was at the heart of the life of the school. Ed wanted every child to leave with a real awareness of the local, national and global environment and how each one can make a real difference to the quality of the environment for everyone. Eco work was integrated into the curriculum and there was a real enthusiasm across the school for all of Ed's eco work. Ed also recognised that it has financial rewards too.