Environment and heritage education resources
Resources
Our resources range from posters showcasing our unique biodiversity and heritage to booklets educating teachers and learners on how to living smart and green can help save our environment. All of our posters, pamphlets and guides are available to download and print.
To see all of our environment and heritage education resources, visit our document centre and select Graphics and educational material, and Environment as a theme filter.
Featured environmental education resources
Browse some of our popular environmental education resources below.
Biodiversity posters
Our bright posters highlight Cape Town’s unique vegetation and animal kingdom.
Download Biodiversity Vegetation Poster
Download Biodiversity Species Poster
Cape Town Energy2040 brochure
Our Energy2040 brochure covers a range of measures we are taking over the next five years to achieve the goal of a low carbon, resilient and resource-efficiency city.
View the Energy2040 brochure.
Endangered Western Leopard Toad
This useful pamphlet 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.
Download Western Leopard Toad Pamphlet
Nelson Mandela lesson plans
Our Nelson Mandela in Cape Town - Legacy Exhibition at the Cape Town City Hall, covers the life of Mandela and his close affinity with Cape Town. This includes the time he spent with other struggle veterans on Robben Island, his release on 11 February 1990, and the historic speech he delivered from the balcony of City Hall.
To complement the exhibition, we developed a supportive education programme for primary and secondary school learners who visit the exhibition. Eight lesson plans have been produced, which are aligned to the Life Skills and Social Science (History) learning areas of the national curriculum.
- Grades R - 2: Nelson Mandela and Some National Symbols
- Grade 3: People and Places
- Grade 5: A heritage Trail Through the Provinces
- Grade 9: Memory as Resistance
- Grade 11: Learning More From Leaders
For more information, visit www.capetown.gov.za/MandelaExhibition.
Smart Eating Toolkit
Our Smart Eating Toolkit aims to raise awareness about the link between food and climate change, as well as encourage both educators and learners to make smart choices about how they eat.
Download Smart Eating Learners Booklet
Download Smart Eating Educator’s Guide
Download Smart Eating Food and Climate Change Audit sheet
Smart Cooking and Home Safety Guide
Find out more about smart eating, how food production impacts on the environment, clean energy, and alternative cooking methods. This booklet also includes a handy Home Safety Guide and a quiz so you can find out how safe your home is.
Download Smart Cooking and Home Safety Guide
Smart Living Sustainability Quiz
How large is the ‘footprint’ you leave on this earth? Calculate your footprint rating using the easy quiz in our Smart Living Handbook.
Download the Smart Living Handbook
Spekboom Information Booklets
This booklet provides useful information about the Spekboom plant - an attractive, evergreen succulent shrub (or small tree)which grows naturally in very dry areas, and helps to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Download the Spekboom Information Booklet (For Adults)
Download the Spekboom Information Booklet (For Kids)
Featured heritage resources
Browse some of our popular heritage education resources below.
Enviroworks: Special Edition Heritage Newsletter
Our special edition of Enviroworks explores Cape Town’s rich heritage as well as identifying threats to our heritage.
Download Enviroworks: Special Edition Heritage Newsletter
Heritage Advice Guideline Series
We are creating a Heritage Advice Guideline Series to help you understand heritage resources management processes, including: the protection and management mechanisms for heritage resources; and the processes for making heritage-related development applications.
Booklet 01 - Heritage Resources Management
Booklet 02 - How to Design in a Heritage Context
Heritage pamphlets
Our heritage pamphlets are an excellent source of heritage information for Cape Town.
HAP 1 Heritage Resources
HAP 2 Heritage Areas
HAP 3 Cultural Landscapes and Historic Vegetation
HAP 4 Design Guidelines in a Heritage Context
HAP 5 Boundary Enclosures in Heritage Areas and to Historic Buildings
HAP 6 Garages & Carports in Heritage Areas and for Historic Buildings
HAP 7 Roofscapes in Heritage Areas and of Historic Buildings
HAP 8 Security in Heritage Areas and for Historic Buildings
HAP 9 Langa Heritage and Sites - PART 1
HAP 9 Langa Heritage and Sites - PART 2
HAP 10 Company's Garden Self-guided Walk
HAP 11 Alterations and Additions in Historic Residential Areas
HAP 12 Guidelines for Work in St. James and Kalk Bay Heritage Area
HAP 13 Guidelines for Work in Bo-Kaap Heritage Areas
HAP 14 Guidelines for Work in Bungalows Heritage Areas
HAP 15 Guidelines for Work in Mamre Heritage Area (Also see website: Mamre Revitalisation Project)
HAP 16 Philippi Heritage Information Brochure
HAP 17 Slave Heritage Walks
Heritage display maps
We have two maps which show all our heritage displays around the central city.
Green Point Heritage Display Map
Cape Town CBD Heritage Display Map
Stories of the South Peninsula
Our publication features historical research, stories and heritage tourism opportunities in the South Peninsula. This resource is available for download as a full document (below) or as individual chapters which can be found in our document centre.
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