What are students doing?

Students think about consequences for them and for others (who is upstream and who is downstream)
Students design school grounds, are involved in directing adults who enact changes to the place they learn, and come to agreement about issues

Excerpt:
"It's not so much that we want them to say, 'Oh we had a cool school. We put solar panels on the roof. We had a garden and we composted.' But rather we want them to be able to express why they did those things and why they're important."

Barlow, D. (2009). Smart by Nature: Schooling for sustainability. Education Digest, Dec2009, Vol. 75 Issue 4, p70-71.