All Stories
The collection of stories below can be used to teach students about sustainability. The collection has been organised according to theme.
Each story is accompanied by teaching resources, including lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations, and suggested activities.
A Planet Full of Plastic
By Neal Layton
This non-fiction book can be used to teach students about plastic waste.
Topic: Waste
Benny Bungarra’s Big Bush Clean Up
By Miah Madden
This story can be used to teach students about plastic pollution.
Topic: Waste
Here Comes the Garbage Barge
By Jonah Winter
This book can be used to teach students about the stages of waste disposal.
Topic: Waste
Journey of the Sea Turtle
By Mark Wilson
This story can be used to teach students about ocean pollution and the life-cycle of turtles.
Topic: Oceans, Waste, Conservation
Like the Ocean We Rise
By Nicola Edwards & Sarah Wilkins
A book about climate change. It shows students how groups and individuals can work together to make a difference.
Topic: Climate change, taking action
One Plastic Bag
By Isatou Ceesay
This picture book can be used to teach students about re-using plastic waste.
Topic: Waste, reusing items, taking action.
The All New Must Have Orange 430
By Michael Speechley
This story can be used in a lesson about recycling, up-cycling, and re-purposing.
Topic: Waste, recycling
The Last Straw
By Susan Hood
This book of poems can be used to teach students about reducing plastic waste.
Topic: Waste, reducing waste.
The Old Man and The Penguin
By Julie Abery & Pierre Pratt
This story can be used to teach students about conservation, and the hazards of oil spills.
Topic: Oil spills, conservation.
The Patchwork Bike
By Maxine Beneba Clarke
This story can be used in a lesson about recycling, up-cycling, and re-purposing.
Topic: recycling, up cycling, waste.
Walk of the Whales
By Nick Bland
This story can be used to teach students about ocean pollution.
Topic: waste, oceans.
The Windy Farm
By Doug MacLeod
This book can be used in lessons about sustainable sources of power.
Topic: renewable energy
The Mess That We Made
By Michelle Lord
This story can be used to teach about the impact of trash and plastic on the ocean and marine life.
Topic: ocean pollution, marine life
The Hidden Forest
By Jeannie Baker
This story can be used to teach about the ocean plants and their value to our world.
Topic: ocean, marine life
The Curious Garden
By Peter Brown
This story can be used to teach changing seasons, which naturally lends itself to discussions about natural sequences and cycles.
Topic: nature