Students will be doing Ethics within TOK, so they'll be very familiar with that. You start teaching the course with the Foundations; the expectation is that you start with topic one, and as you go through there will be chances to introduce ethics when you're looking at perspectives, and Economics when you're looking at sustainability law. You can integrate it that way to start off the conversation, and as you go through the course, through ecology or conservation, you can then see how you could apply the HL lenses to that particular topic. In the Pearson ESS Student Book, we give you ideas about where the HL lenses can be applied right through the course.
In the early discussions of the curriculum review it was decided that Awesome Anthropocene Goals should be included even though it’s a bit controversial. What the IB were trying to do with the new syllabus, also in terms of SDGs, was to futureproof it. The SDGs go through to around 2030, like the course. What we were looking for were models which you could pin ideas to in the course. They are used as examples of what sustainability is and how can you actually realise it.
Neo-colonialism is very much a talk approach. There’s plenty you could look at in terms of environmental law.
