Didactic Bricks

An adaptable and tailorable teaching tool for educators implementing Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)

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Teachers know how challenging it can be to bring sustainability into 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 educators to easily design and deliver lessons—or even whole interdisciplinary projects - that engage students (ages 10–15) in solving real-world sustainability challenges.

TEACH SMART: Fashion & Textiles

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Discover Didactic Bricks and bring sustainability education into your classroom!

Join us for the next TEACH SMART live event, where we introduce Didactic Bricks, a new interactive learning library designed to help educators turn sustainability topics into practical, engaging classroom activities.

This 45-minute online session will focus on Fashion & Textiles, exploring how educators can bring topics such as fast fashion, clothing consumption, and circularity into their teaching.

Through ready-to-use lesson plans, practical resources, and real classroom examples, you'll discover how Didactic Bricks can support hands-on sustainability learning.

What to Expect

  • Meet Didactic Bricks: Discover the new platform and how to find activities and resources suited to your classroom.

  • Explore Fashion & Textiles: Get inspired by practical lesson plans addressing clothing consumption, textile waste, and circular fashion.

  • Learn from educators: Hear real classroom experiences and discover activities you can adapt to your own teaching.

  • Take ideas back to your classroom: Leave with practical resources ready to explore with your students.

Event Details

📅 Monday, 16 November 2026

⏰ 15:00–15:45 CET

💻 Online | Free to attend

Whether you're new to sustainability education or looking for fresh teaching ideas, this session is an opportunity to discover new resources and connect sustainability topics with everyday classroom learning.

What are Didactic Bricks?

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

  • Individually: as a single, engaging lesson.

  • Combined: like a music playlist, building entire thematic units.

These bricks:

  • Adapt to the classroom 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

Previous events

TEACH SMART - Online Event for Educators

Thursday 21 May 2026 / 15:00–15:45 CEST

This interactive event gives a first look of what is Didactic Bricks is. And spotlights Eco-Schools teacher Lea Oberkobler running through a lesson plan on Insects and Biodiversity.

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Didactic Bricks Hackathon (October, 2025)

29 teachers from Slovenia, the Netherlands, and Denmark, together with 6 partner organisations, came together to brainstorm how to imagine and build the prototype of Didactic Bricks tool.

During 3 days, we were building (& hacking!) the prototype with teachers, from the bottom up. 🆙

The hackathon took place at the newly certified Green Key International hotel, Terme Čatež, a fitting setting for creative and sustainable ideas to grow.

A huge thank you to Suzanne Bech Crawfurd for leading the dynamic and community learning exercises that brought everyone’s ideas together.👥

Watch a video recap of what happened at the Didactic Bricks Hackathon

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


 
 



 



  • Koersmakers Educatie – experts in sustainable education, systems thinking, future design, and challenge-based learning, The Netherlands.

 


How educators can take part?

When the prototype is developed, we will be inviting teachers like you to test and use Didactic Bricks in your classroom. The focus is on these three themes:

  1. Nature & Biodiversity

  2. Food & Beverages

  3. Textiles & Fashion

Teachers that join are able to:

  • 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.