Smart eating toolkit
 Smart eating toolkit: food and climate change - Educator's guide (A) [PDF 664 KB]
Aimed at Grade 9-12 learners, this three-part toolkit focuses on the features of the City of Cape Town's Smart Living Handbook. The Smart Eating project aims to raise awareness around the links between food and climate change through doing a workshop with learners and then getting them to do an audit of the tuck shop and/or canteen. They then consider their findings and make recommendations around changes that can be implemented at the school. The toolkit includes an educator’s guide, a learners’ booklet and a tuck shop audit sheet.
 Smart eating toolkit: food and climate change - Learners' booklet (B) [PDF 1.1 MB]
The Smart Eating learners' booklet aims to provide knowledge around the linkages between food and climate change, as well as to encourage and empower learners to make informed and climate-friendly decisions regarding their food consumption.
 Smart eating toolkit: food and climate change - Tuck shop audit sheet (C) [PDF 59 KB]
The tuck shop audit sheet provides a simple scoring system for assessing food items in the tuck shop. The different food types need to be individually assessed to determine where they come from and what their impact is (food type, production, packaging, transport, storage and preparation). The aim is to get an acurate score per item and which will assist learners to choose products with the lowest score as they will have the lowest impact on the environment and climate change.

 Soccer and the Environment "Making Connections" Grade 7 Teacher's Guide [PDF 2.8 MB] and wall poster [JPG 1.3 MB]
This educational programme encourages learners to become more environmentally aware and sensitive to local issues. The unique feature of "Making Connections" is that it allows learners to explore environmental issues through the game of soccer. With the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ being held in South Africa, there is a keen interest in soccer at this time. The colourful and engaging poster contains soccer actions and an environmental action is linked to each one. The teacher's guide suggests practical ideas to help learners take action by scoring 'green goals' for the earth to get ahead on the scoreboard.

 City of Cape Town Environmental Resource Directory 2008/2009 [PDF 629 KB]
A comprehensive reference tool identifying a number of NGO, CBO and NPO environmental organisations in the city as possible; in order to assist the organisations and individuals to initiate environmental action. The directory also helps to facilitate networking within the environmental sphere of Cape Town.

Endangered Western Leopard Toad
 Endangered Western Leopard Toad information leaflet [PDF 308 KB]
 Endangered Western Leopard Toad poster (for learners) [PDF 436 KB]
This useful information provides advice on how you can play a part in saving this endangered toad species that lives and breeds in the low-lying regions of Cape Town. Many of their breeding wetlands have been drained, filled in and built on, and their feeding areas are in the midst of urban areas.

 Invasive Guttural Toad information flyer [PDF 122 KB]
Do you live or work in the Constantia Valley area of Cape Town? Please help prevent the spread of an aggressive invader, the Guttural Toad. Guttural Toads pose a serious threat to the survival of our indigenous frog and toad species, especially the endangered Western Leopard Toad as they compete for habitat, resources and breeding grounds.

 The Animals Save the Planet [External website]
Each of these short animated clips has a simple message to address sustainable living (for children and adults alike). Very simple, very funny and very effective.

 e-Kapa: Cape Town's lowlands – a global treasure [External website]
Produced by the City of Cape Town and the Botanical Society of South Africa, this comprehensive interactive electronic resource (also available on CD) covers the environment of Cape Town's lowlands. The resource is designed for Senior Phase (Grade 7-9) educators and learners from Western Cape schools, and for environmental educators working in the Fynbos Biome. Educators and learners in other grades may find the information and activities useful for lessons, projects and fieldwork.

 e-Kapa educators' guide [PDF 3 MB]
The educators’ guide suggests how educators can use the e-Kapa resource/website (above) to plan and present lessons and to develop their own educational materials. Contents of the guide include: background information on the resource; environmental education advice; and curriculum-based lesson plans that involve use of the e-Kapa resource/website.

Green audit toolkit
 Green audit toolkit (A) - Learners' information booklet [PDF 507 KB]
This three-part toolkit focuses on the themes of the City of Cape Town's Smart Living Handbook. This booklet outlines what a green audit entails and it contains information on waste, energy, water, biodiversity and carbon 'foot printing'. The toolkit is aimed at Grade 10 learners which reflect the outcomes and assessment standards mostly associated with the Physical and Natural Science learning areas in the FET band.
 Green audit toolkit (B) - Educator's guide [PDF 500 KB]
This document provides guidance to teachers which will enable learners in carrying out the audits and make the curriculum links.
 Green audit toolkit (C) - Activity sheets [PDF 264 KB]
These activity sheets can be printed out and and copied for learners to carry out environmental audits at their school.

 Your A to Z dictionary of environmental words - ENGLISH [PDF 139 KB]
An introductory guide to important environmental words and what they mean, aimed at school learners and the public to understand more about the environment. Click here for the online version.

 Jou A-tot-Z-omgewingswoordeboek - AFRIKAANS [PDF 160 KB]
An Afrikaans version of “Your A to Z Dictionary of Environmental Words”. Click here for the online version.

 Isichazi magama sakho samaGama A-Z okusiNgqongileyo - XHOSA [PDF 181 KB]
A Xhosa version of “Your A to Z Dictionary of Environmental Words”. Click here for the online version.

 Enviropaedia – rethinking reality [External website]
A comprehensive online environmental encyclopaedia and networking directory - designed to assist individuals and organisations, to live and work in a balanced and sustainable manner. Features include: 1) an Encyclopaedia on today's major environmental issues and simple explanations of environmental facts; 2) a Sustainable Development section covering all sectors of industry; 3) a Networking Directory providing the latest database of "who’s who" within the environmentally related sector (organisations and companies); 4) a Sustainable Lifestyle Guide which helps us to improve the sustainability of our own lifestyles; 5) useful links to Resources such as environmental websites, environmental news and media, government departments.

 The 'BioDaVersity' code [External website]
It is perhaps the greatest secret of them all, but humankind continues to deny its existence. Follow the adventures of Robert Penguin and Sophie Minnow as they race against time to discover the secret of the web of life (flash video).

 Into Evaluation: A Start-Up Resource for Evaluating Environmental Education and Training Projects, Programmes, Resources 2004 [PDF 2.8 MB]
This resource consists of six tools to help you plan and conduct an evaluation, plus case studies which illustrate various aspects of planning and doing real-life evaluations. As a ‘start-up’ resource it is not comprehensive and aims to provide the basics as a starting point. Users are encouraged to expand the resource, thereby also customising it for their own context.

 City of Cape Town environmental education & training strategy [PDF 1.7 MB]
A policy framework in which to plan, co-ordinate and implement the City of Cape Town’s various environmental education and training initiatives.

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