Creative Sustainability - Introducing Permaculture

In this lesson, students will explore the ethics and principles of permaculture. They will begin by looking at how permaculture evolved to address some of the environmental and social challenges of conventional agriculture. Students then work to create a Venn diagram that incorporates the ethics and principles of permaculture, after which they will work in groups to investigate one principle in depth. They will then share their knowledge of this principle with the class. Although this lesson can be taught by itself, it also forms the first part in a unit of 6 lessons that can be delivered in sequence to take your students through a complete permaculture project design process.