This document outlines topics and subtopics to be covered in an environmental studies course for teacher training colleges in 2012-2013. The topics include environmental health and sanitation, ecosystems and biodiversity, people and the environment, urbanization and migration, education for sustainable development, information and communication technology, energy, and water. Under each topic, subtopics are defined that will be taught, such as defining different types of ecosystems, threats to ecosystems and sustainable solutions, population growth and its effects, the definitions and principles of sustainable development, and methods for obtaining clean water.

1. Teacher Training Colleges ESD Pack Guidelines 2012/2013
TOPIC ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH &
SANITATION
ECOSYSTEMS &
BIODIVERSITY
PEOPLE &
ENVIRONMENT
UBARNIZATION
& MIGRATION
ESD & ICT
Sub
topics
Define Environment
-Components of an environment
-Environmental pollution & problems
Personal Hygiene
-Body and personal effects
Common communicable diseases
-Definition
-Some of the diseases
-Malaria
-Tuberculosis
-Skin diseases
-Water borne diseases
-Sexually transmitted diseases and
Immunization
HIV and Aids
-Definition
-Modes of transmission
-Control
-Impact on individuals, Nation and
Environment
Drugs and substance abuse
Definitions
-Different types of
ecosystems
-Benefits of ecosystems
-Weather
-Soils
-Plants
-Animals
-Threats to ecosystems
-Sustainable solutions to
ecosystems threats
Types of habitats
-Interdependence
-Plants and animals
-Animals and plants
-Plants and plants
-Animals and animals
-Food chains and food
webs
Adaptation of organisms to
their habitats
Definitions of
environment
-Components of
environment
-Biotic Environment
-A biotic Environment
Factors affecting
Natural Resources
-Renewable & non
Renewable resources
-Threats to some of the
resources
- sustainable solutions
Population growth
-Pollution
-Definitions
- Causes, effects
and control
Water air and soils
-Conservation of ;
-Soil
- Water
-Plants
-animals
Waste Management
-Making good use of
waste; e.g. coffee husks,
cow dung, saw dust etc.
-Reuse of materials;
glass, polythene, plastics
Recycling of Materials
-Water
-Waste papers
-scrap metals
Definitions
-Migration -
Urbanization
-Factors that lead to
urbanization
-Effects of
urbanization
-Sustainability
issues to migration
& urbanization
-Environmental
issues
-Social economic
issues
Responses to the
urbanization effects
-Policy responses
-Institutional
responses
Definition of ESD
-Principles of SD
-Aspects of SD
-Priorities of SD
-ESD and the school
curriculum
-Innovations and Inventions
-Entrepreneurships
-Partnerships
ICT
Definition of ICT
-Use of ICT as part of
learning process
-ICT integrated Education
-Strategies for using ICT for
assessment
-Essays
-Performance assessment
-Oral Presentations
-Demonstrations
-Exhibitions
-ICT & learning materials
preparations
ICT & the Society
-Knowledge economy
-Role of ICT in Globalization,
Democracy, and
Development
Importance of ICT
-Use of student centered
learning & teaching in an
ICT Environment
-Role of critical thinking in
an ICT environment
-Role of PBLs in ICT

2. Teacher Training Colleges ESD Pack Guidelines 2012/2013
Energy
Definition
-Forms and energy
-heat energy
-light energy
-sound energy
-mechanical energy
-Chemical energy
-Magnetic energy
-Electric energy
Energy conservation
-improved jikos
-Biogas
-Hot box
-Solar cooker
Water
-Sources of water
-Uses of water
-Water cycle
-storage of water
Methods of obtaining
clean water
-decantation
-Filtration
-Distillation
-Boiling
-Chemical
environment
-Role of ICT illiteracies in
different subjects