Didactic Bricks

Didactic Bricks for teachers implementing Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)

As a teacher, you know how challenging it can be to bring sustainability into your lessons—especially when preparation time is limited, administrative tasks pile up, and pre-made materials from publishers don’t always spark creativity or connect with students’ real lives.

That’s why we are developing Didactic Bricks: flexible, creative, action-oriented learning activities designed for teachers who want to implement Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in their classrooms.

This ERASMUS+ project empowers you to easily design and deliver lessons—or even whole interdisciplinary projects—that engage students (ages 10–15) in solving real-world sustainability challenges.

What are Didactic Bricks?

They are modular, ready-to-use activities you can use in different ways:

Individually: as a single, engaging lesson.
Combined: like a music playlist, building entire thematic units.

These bricks:

Adapt to your curriculum, teaching style, and student needs.
Connect learning to real-world sustainability themes.
Support interdisciplinary work across subjects such as: Natural Science, Social Studies, Mathematics, National Language, English, Arts, Home Economics and others.
Enable collaboration with other teachers—locally and online—to co-create and share materials.
Equip students with social-entrepreneurial skills and a sense of active hope for shaping a sustainable future.

Didactic Bricks themes

Who is behind this project?

This is a collaborative, Erasmus+ initiative led by:

Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) – one of the world's largest environmental education organisations, with over 110 member organisations in 85 countries and 5 environmental education programmes including Eco-Schools

&LEARNING – initiator and co-developer of the bricks concept in Denmark

Društvo DOVES - FEE Member organisation in Slovenia

Duurzame PABO – teacher educator network in The Netherlands

Stichting Technotrend – experts in “didactics of hope” and ESD materials, The Netherlands

Leren voor Morgen – cooperative of 170+ organisations supporting ESD in The Netherlands

How educators can take part?

We will soon be inviting teachers like you to co-create and test Didactic Bricks in your classroom. Together, we’ll work on three themes:

Nature & Biodiversity
Food & Beverages
Textiles & Fashion

By joining, you’ll:

Collaborate with colleagues and international partners.
Co-develop ready-to-use sustainability lessons.
Test the materials with your students and share feedback to improve them for others.