SEED Guide

4. SEED Sustainability Challenges

Each of the 12 SEED Sustainability Challenges are designed for one-page easy reference on paper and on mobile devices. You will find the following:

• A clear title that references the activity and proposed results
• A single paragraph that introduces the challenge, accompanied by an image, which together can inspire conversation and questioning.
• The Objectives and Constraints which are crafted to establish the parameters for the activity.
• Six (6) iterative Design Thinking steps which follow the brief to readily go back as many steps as required to “do it again” is essential to the 3i model of design thinking and its “fail fast” ethos.

The SEED Sustainability Challenges have been crafted to involve the students in role-playing, where the students themselves enact all of the parts. By playing different roles, students have the opportunity to explore other perspectives as they adopt new personas. Note that this approach to the activity facilitates carrying out the tasks in the classroom and even in an online learning environment. Teachers can choose to encourage the use of AI tools, such as ChatGPT, for role-playing.

Implementation of the SEED course involves an interactive lesson, teamwork, presentations and discussions. At every phase, teachers are expected to encourage students to participate actively. Especially in the final presentation and discussion, teachers can consider the option of additional student agency by creating student juries, rather than reserving judgment of other teams for the teacher.