Getting started

Here's what to expect on your journey

1. Be Aware

What is it about: Explore and understand different environmental issues related or as a result of plastic pollution on land and water

• Complete a self-assessment

• Audit your plastic usage

• Do at least 5 activities for 7 - 10 years of age, and 4 activities for 11 years of age and above in the path. You can use your own activities considering competencies of Healthy Planet

• Plan and carry on with a community service project

2. Cooperate

How does the learning process work?

Adults or peers support young people to:

• Identification of issues or needs with the teams, community, and partners.

• Explore possible solutions together and decide which one to work on as a project

• Brainstorm different options with community members

• Check the feasibility of the projects and sustainability in the long term.

• Present results to community members of beneficiaries

• Agree on a solution to bring into action

• Design and action plan to execute your project, communicate it, and gather the necessary funds and resources.

• Set up one SMART goal: Specific - Measurable - achievable - Realistic - Time-based

• Apply sustainability principles in plans and be mindful of the use of resources.

3. Act

What are the learning processes to help young people take action?

Adults or peers support young people to:

• Take action to contribute to solving a specific issue related to Healthy Planet while working with the key actors: community, your group, partners.

How does the learning process work?

Adults or peers support young people to:

• Execute the agreed service project

• Execute your plans in collaboration with community members and partners

• Monitor the plans and progress of actions

• Evaluate it (Goals, impact, individual collective evaluations, etc)

• Report and Share on Scout.org and SDG hub

• Celebrate and recognize efforts with peers, beneficiaries, and partners.

Competencies towards the SDGs

The sustainable development key competencies will help you to have a better observation to evaluate the knowledge, skills and attitude the young person developed through the learning journey.

• Systems thinking competency: the ability to recognize and understand relationships; to analyse complex systems; to think of how systems are embedded within different domains and different scales; and to deal with uncertainty

• Anticipatory competency: the ability to understand and evaluate multiple futures – possible, probable and desirable; to create one’s own visions for the future; to apply the precautionary principle; to assess the consequences of actions; and to deal with risks and changes.

• Normative competency: the ability to understand and reflect on the norms and values that underlie one’s actions; and to negotiate sustainability values, principles, goals, and targets, in a context of conflicts of interests and trade-offs, uncertain knowledge and contradictions.

• Strategic competency: the abilities to collectively develop and implement innovative actions that further sustainability at the local level and further afield.

• Collaboration competency: the abilities to learn from others; to understand and respect the needs, perspectives and actions of others (empathy); to understand, relate to and be sensitive to others (empathic leadership); to deal with conflicts in a group; and to facilitate collaborative and participatory problem solving.

• Critical thinking competency: the ability to question norms, practices and opinions; to reflect on one’s own values, perceptions and actions; and to take a position in the sustainability discourse.

• Self-awareness competency: the ability to reflect on one’s own role in the local community and (global) society; to continually evaluate and further motivate one’s actions; and to deal with one’s feelings and desires.

• Integrated problem-solving competency: the overarching ability to apply different problem-solving frameworks to complex sustainability problems and develop viable, inclusive and equitable solution options that promote sustainable development, integrating the above- mentioned competences and the Earth Tribe Learning Objectives.

The sustainable development key competencies will help you to have a better observation to evaluate the knowledge, skills and attitude the young person developed through the learning journey. Get to know more by following the link Education For Sustainable Development

To continue your tide turner journey, learn more about plastics by clicking the link below!

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