Enviro-Stories was established by PeeKdesigns environmental education consultants in 2009. The program involves students learning about their local area and passing this knowledge on to others through storytelling.
The program has proven to be a simple but effective concept that enables sponsors to engage students from throughout their region.
Enviro-Stories provides an educational experience for the purpose of creating school readers that have been written and illustrated about local issues by kids, for kids.
We hope that continued support for the program will see it spread across new regions of this wonderful and story-inspiring country.
Enviro-Stories provides a unique community engagement opportunity for sponsoring organisations that involves schools in an education program focussing on establishing a ‘sense of place’ within the local environment.
Sponsors have the ability to structure the program around their key messages and areas of interest, as well as meeting curriculum needs of the participating schools. Sponsors can also vary their level of involvement to engage their local community, or put it in the hands of the experienced Enviro-Stories team.
The program provides a creative outlet for diverse abilities. Whether it is for gifted students, average students or those with special needs, Enviro-Stories can be easily adapted to suit everyone.
Enviro-Stories allows teachers to address many subject areas within the curriculum; such as English, Science, Art, Humanities and Technology. It can also address the cross-curricular priorities of Sustainability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures.
Participation is not limited to students in 3-6 year levels as we have had books prepared from preschool through to year 11 high school students.
Through the valuable support of our sponsors, we have been able to bring Enviro-Stories to schools in regional New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.
Since its establishment, the Enviro-Stories program has produced HUNDREDS of student written and illustrated books and TENS of THOUSANDS of copies distributed to schools and communities. This is a massive achievement for all the teachers, parents, students, sponsors and other contributors to this innovative program.
The Enviro-Stories program is focussed on being an easy process to participate, whether you are a student, teacher or sponsor. Yet we know there are some burning questions out there that you want the answers to quickly, without having to make contact with an actual person. So we have made it easy for you to find the answers to some of our most commonly asked questions.
Schools participating in a Solo Project will incur publishing fees that are negotiated with the Enviro-Stories Coordinator.
A story template with enclosed entry form is made available to registered teachers/schools. This template should be used as the basis for each page of the entry/s.
Illustrations can be in the form of drawings, photos paintings or collage.
We strongly recommend small groups of 3 to 5 students as this makes the process quicker in the classroom with more contributors to the one story.
Individual students love getting their very own book published but we understand that this can take a lot of class time.
Additionally, participation is not limited to year levels 3-6. We have had books prepared from preschool through to year 11 high school students.
Regarding the education kits that get uploaded for the individual programs, they are copyrighted to PeeKdesigns – our parent organisation. Education materials are free to use in accordance to the copyright clause included on them – usually found on the inner cover of each resource. Just like the storybooks, they can be printed in their entirety and used within schools but we do not permit them to be used for commercial gain and PeeKdesigns must be attributed as the owner and intellectual property holder of the content.
If you couldn’t find an answer to your question, don’t despair! We can answer any question you have about the program and if it is useful to others, we can include your question on the website.
PeeKdesigns acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country across Australia and their continuing connection to land, culture and community. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
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